Sunday, February 8, 2009
I needed to research this for my math homework, so I thought I'll post it here too.
Dead Sea is a salt lake between Israel and the West Bank to the west, and Jordan to the east. It is 422 m below sea level and its shores are the lowest point on the surface of the Earth on dry land. The Dead Sea is 378 m deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world. It is also one of the world's saltiest bodies of water, with 33.7 % salinity. This salinity makes for a harsh environment where animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 67 km long and 18 km wide at its widest point.
The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on Earth, the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth being −89.2 °C at Vostok Station. It is also extremely dry, with an average of only 166 mm of precipitation per year; however, on most parts of the continent the snow never melts and is eventually compressed to become the glacial ice that makes up the ice sheet. Weather fronts rarely penetrate far into the continent. Most of Antarctica has an ice cap climate with very cold, generally extremely dry weather throughout the year and no month averaging above 0 °C . Antarctica receives less than two inches of rain a year and because of this is classified as a desert.
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