Angel Falls in Venezuela is the tallest waterfall in the world.
Its water tumbles down from about 1 kilometre high. The water turns into mist before it even reaches the bottom.
💡 Water Nature — Fun Facts
Fun “Did you know?” facts about Water Nature — tap through 10 at a time!
The Pacific is the biggest ocean on our whole planet.
It is so wide that it covers about a third of the Earth. Many islands and countless sea animals live in it.
Ice is simply water that has frozen hard and cold.
When water gets very cold, it turns solid and becomes ice. When ice warms up again, it melts back into water.
Ocean water tastes salty, but rain and rivers are fresh.
The sea is full of salt, so we cannot drink it. The water we drink comes from rain, rivers, and lakes.
Rivers flow downhill until they reach the sea.
Water always runs from high places to low places. Little streams join together to make big rivers on the way.
Rain comes from water that rises into clouds and falls back down.
The Sun warms water and lifts it up to make clouds. When the clouds get heavy, the water falls back as rain.
Most of the Earth is covered by water.
If you look at our planet from space, you see lots of blue. That blue is all the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers.
The Nile is usually called the longest river in the world.
It flows about 6,650 km through Africa — so long that a boat would take many weeks to travel from one end to the other.
Tiny plants in the ocean make a large part of the oxygen we breathe.
Microscopic ocean plants called phytoplankton produce roughly half of the world's oxygen through photosynthesis — so the sea, not just forests, helps power every breath you take.
Water is the only thing on Earth found naturally as a solid, a liquid, and a gas.
You can spot all three in everyday nature: ice (solid), rain or the sea (liquid), and invisible water vapour or clouds (gas). Most other substances need extreme temperatures to switch states like that.