Science Facts for Kids

A single lightning bolt contains enough energy to toast about 100,000 slices of bread.

Earth spins at about 1,000 miles per hour at the equator, but you don't feel it because everything moves with you.

A googol (1 followed by 100 zeros) is bigger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

Your DNA is 99.9% identical to every other human on Earth.

Acid rain is real — it's caused by pollution mixing with water in the atmosphere, and it can damage buildings and forests.

Chalk is made from the crushed shells of trillions of tiny sea creatures that lived millions of years ago.

Diamonds are made of the same element as pencil lead — carbon — just arranged differently under extreme pressure.

A sneeze can travel at about 100 miles per hour and send 100,000 germs into the air.

Trees communicate with each other through an underground network of fungi, sometimes called the "wood wide web."

The Amazon Rainforest produces about 6% of the world's oxygen and is home to 10% of all species on Earth.