10 Amazing Scientific “Facts of Nature and Space Science” interesting facts for Class 10 and 12 Part 11

Facts of Nature & Space – 11

191. The rainbow only occurs when the sun is at an angle of less the 40 degrees above the horizon.

192. The sun burns 240,000,000 tonnes of hydrogen dust every minute.

193. The sun provides most of our heat. The temperature at the center of the sun is about 14, 000,000 degrees Celsius.

194. The sunbeam that shines down through the clouds is called the crepuscular ray.

195. On a dewy morning, if your look at your shadow in the grass, the dewdrops shine light back to your eye creating a halo called a ‘heilgenschenin’ (German for halo).

196. Water is the only substance on earth naturally found In the three rule element forms- solid, liquid and gas.

197. A coffee seed when planted, takes 5 years to yield its first consumable fruit.

198. Years ago the colour of the carrot was purple not orange.

199. Low – growing plants are called herbs.

200. “Duff” is the Decaying Organic matter found on the forest floor.