Here are some facts about The Environment
Here is a diagram of an Esker.
Here is a diagram of an Esker.
- Eskers are large piles of mud and stones formed by glaciers.
- The most important road long ago was the Slí Mhór.
- The monastery at Clonmacnoise was built on the Slí Mhór.
- A geosphere is a layer of rock that covers the earth.
- In 2010 , the roof of a mine in Chile collapsed and 33 miners became traped underground for 69 days.
- The only fjord in Ireland is Killary Harbour Co Galway.
- According to legend Clew Bay in Co.Mayo has a drumlin for every day of the year.
- The geosphere refers to all of the Earths solid ground.
- The goesphere is a layer of rock that covers the earth.
- The hydrosphere refers to all of the water on the Earth.
- The atmosphere refers to all of the air that we breath.
- The biosphere refers to all life forms on Earth.
- A damb is a wall built in a river, lake or sea to hold back water.
- Almost 80 percent of Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen gas.
- The moon has no atmosphere : no nitrogen, no oxygen and no carbon dioxide.
- Seas and oceans hold 97 percent of Earth`s water.
- Lichens grow on trees, rocks and walls where there is clean air.
- An African bird known as Ruppell`s Vulture can fly at a hight of 11,000 metres above the ground.
- The Burren in Co. Clare grow lots of unusual plants.
- Certain marine micro-organisims live in the darkness at a depth of 9,000 metres.