44 Fascinating Science Facts for Kids
Nothing beats the weather for conversation, especially if you can recite a few fun facts about weather science or space trivia for the kids. Use these facts to make your own trivia questions for kids or to learn something new. Continue reading for some interesting and entertaining science facts for kids.
12 Incredible Facts about the Weather
1. Some tornadoes can outperform Formula One race cars in terms of speed!
2. Every minute, there are 2,000 thunderstorms on Earth.
3. The wind is silent until it comes into contact with something.
4. In Iceland, there are ice caves with hot springs.
5. The fastest raindrop ever recorded was 18 mph!
6. The United States experiences over 1200 tornadoes each year.
7. Lightning does have the ability to strike twice.
Clouds appear white because they reflect sunlight from above.
9. Yuma, Arizona receives over 4000 hours of sunlight per year, making it the sunniest place on the planet. The South Pole has the fewest sunny days of the year, with the sun shining only 182 days out of the year. (Which do you prefer to live in?)
10. Rain is high in vitamin B12.
11. A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the sun.
12. In one second, a hurricane produces enough energy to detonate ten atomic bombs.
13. It is possible for it to be too warm to snow, but it is never too cold.
18 Amazing Space Facts
1. The moon is very hot during the day (224 degrees Fahrenheit on average) but very cold at night (-243 degrees Fahrenheit on average).
2. Venus rotates clockwise. It's the only planet in the solar system that does!
3. A neutron star would weigh six billion tons if it were a teaspoon.
4. On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space.
5. A million Earths could fit within the sun!
6. A trip to Pluto would take approximately 800 years in an airplane.
7. Ham the Astrochimp, launched on January 31, 1961, was the first hominid in space.
Neptune's days last 16 hours.
9. Light travels from the sun to Earth in eight minutes and 19 seconds.
10. The moon's footprints will be visible for 100 million years.
11. In one second, a neutron star can spin 600 times.
12. Jupiter is the solar system's fastest spinning planet (it only takes about 10 hours to complete a full rotation on its axis).
13. Sound does not travel through space.
14. The Earth's core is as hot as the sun's surface.
15. The first animals in space were fruit flies, which were launched in 1947 and returned alive.
16. In 2011, ten-year-old Kathryn Aurora Gray discovered a previously unseen supernova (a star that has run out of energy, explodes, and then collapses before dying).
17. Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has saltwater geysers 20 times the height of Mt. Everest.
18. Saturn's rings are made up of trillions of orbiting ice chunks.
9 Crazy Cool Facts about the Human Body
1. The nose can detect trillions of odors!
2. Your feet contain one-quarter of your bones.
3. Human teeth can withstand the same forces as shark teeth!
4. Your blood contains the same amount of salt as the ocean.
5. Humans not only have unique fingerprints, but they also have unique tongue-prints!
6. The average human brain weighs approximately three pounds. A newborn brain weighs approximately 3/4 pounds.
7. Your nose and ears are always growing.
8. The human body is made up of nearly 100 trillion cells.
9. Your heart beats 100,000 times per minute.
5 Cool Facts About Botany
1. Tomatoes are a type of fruit, and watermelons are a type of berry!
2. Some plants emit a rotting flesh odor when they flower, attracting pollinators such as beetles and flies (who like smelly things).
3. In Utah, there is an aspen forest that is thought to be one of the oldest living organisms on the planet, dating back an estimated 80,000 years.
4. The world's tallest tree is a Sequoia redwood, which stands over 379 feet tall.
5. There are over 391,000 plant species known to exist in the world.
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