Earth Science Questions
- Can it rain fish?
- Can wind travel faster than the speed of sound?
- Clouds are just water vapor, so why do they move?
- Do I weigh less on the equator than at the North Pole?
- Does the back of a rainbow look the same as its front side?
- Does wasting household water remove it from the water cycle?
- How can there be clouds in winter when it is too cold for water to stay a vapor?
- How do geologists use carbon dating to find the age of rocks?
- How do icebergs lose their salt?
- How do wells get their water from underground rivers?
- How does a cloud fill up with water?
- How does diffraction make a tree's shadow blurry?
- How does trash in the ocean disappear?
- How does water dowsing work?
- How does wind create all the ocean currents?
- If I jump, will the entire earth move a little bit?
- If I were able to dig a hole from the U.S. through the center of the earth, what part of China would I end up in?
- Is a quadruple rainbow possible?
- What causes the water going down a drain to swirl clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere?
- What keeps the continents floating on a sea of molten rock?
- What makes rain drops tear shaped?
- What makes the Sahara the largest desert in the world?
- What makes the soil in tropical rainforests so rich?
- What would happen if you fell into a hole that went through the center of the earth?
- Where do ocean tides get their energy from?
- Where does the atmosphere end? Where is the edge of space?
- Where is the safest place to go when a tornado hits?
- Why can't lightning strike the same place twice?
- Why did so many people believe the world is flat when it is obviously a sphere?
- Why do car tires protect you from lightning strikes?
- Why does a magnetic compass point to the Geographic North Pole?
- Why does ice form on the top of a lake?
- Why does the air only contain water vapor and not other kinds of vapors?
- Why does the coldest time of the year align with the darkest time of the year?
- Why doesn't the outside world appear blue even though so much light comes from the blue sky?
- Why don't the gases in the atmosphere separate out according to mass?
- Why don't the oceans freeze?
- Why is the sky blue?
- Why is the sky not blue as seen from space?
- Why is the sun cold in the winter?