Icebergs

     First off, we need to get the difference between icebergs and ice-chunks.
     Ice-chunks are frozen water.
     Icebergs are frozen snow that builds up after a long time with out melting.
     After a while gravity causes the frozen snow to slowly flow down the side of the iceberg at a grand speed of a few inches a day.
     When the snow finally gets down into the water, it forms an ice-shelf. This ice-shelf is spread-out under the surface of the water. The biggest ice shelf was the size of Texas. This one was called the Ross ice-shelf.
     Some icebergs are really big and a few where actually mistaken for islands. Well, the part of icebergs that we see is only about 10% of the actually iceberg and the other 90% is the part that we have to worry about. Sometimes the bottom of an iceberg can reach 800 meters or 2,620 feet. (This is down in the thermocline leval.)

The Ocean

The Oceans takes up 7 10ths of the earth. But the ocean is actually only 96.5% water. The other 3.5% is 2.75% Sodom chloride and 0.78% other things.
  The ocean contains 360 quintillions gallons of water. (And just so you know; a quintillion is a billion billions which is 6 sets of 3 zeros or18 zeros.
  Gallons of water int the ocean:
               1,000,000,000,000,000,000, times 360. That's a lot of water.
   One cubic mile of ocean water contains:

           4.5 billion tons of water

           128 million tons of Sodium Chloride (table salt)

           18 million tons of magnesium chloride

           8 million tons of magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt)

           6 million tons of calcium sulfate

           4.2 million tons of potassium chloride

           470,000 tons of calcium carbonate

           47,000 tons of rubidium

           1,400 fluorine

           1,400 tons of nitrogen

           470 tons of zinc

           380 tons of phosphorous

           380 tons of arsenic

           94 tons of iodine

Any way that's a lot of things in one cubic mile of ocean.

Rain Droplets

I thought that I would do some cool facts for a while & so here's your cool fact of the day.

       Cloud and Rain Droplets; (There are four different sizes of droplets.)

                 Rain Droplets -(Diameter) 2mm

                 Drizzle droplets -(Diameter) 0.3mm

                 Giant Cloud droplets-(Diameter) 0.1mm

                 Cloud droplets-(Diameter) 0.02mm

Just so that you know, mm stands for Milli Meter and is one one thousandth of an inch.
         (mm is part of the Metric System. I'll do a post on it pretty soon.)

The Amazing Sighting!

 Yesterday I herd my younger siblings screaming at the top of their lungs. So I ran to my window and saw that all my brothers and sisters were screaming and pointing at the sky.
  When I leaned out to look out I saw the biggest flock of birds that I had ever seen that weren't those little song birds.

 I ran out side to get a better look and it turned out to be a huge flock of Herrings.

 It was the weirdest thing that I have ever seen and it was really cool to watch them change spots because this big ripple would just flow down the lines.

 And so that was our exciting sight of the week.

Puple Gallinule

The Purple Gallinule is about the size of a chicken and brightly colored and likes freshwater with lilies, pickerel weed and other vegetation.
It lays 6-8 pinkish eggs with dark spots on a clump of grass or over the water.
The Purple Gallinule lives in Texas, Florida, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

(You can see it's large feet.)

As the Purple Gallinule swim or flies it will jerk its head from side to side. When in the water it walks on the lily pads. The Purple Gallinule doesn't fly at an extremely fast pace but it has been seen as far as California, Southern Canada, Bermuda and South Africa.

Hummingbirds

(I'm not really sure what kind of Hummingbird this is.)

The Hummingbird is a really cool little bird. It can do a lot of stuff other birds can't, like fly in all directions and hover. Its wings can beat up to 200 times a second. That is really fast.
For most birds the male and female stay together to raise the babies, not so with Hummingbirds. The male usually has several mates all over the place.
Each mother lays up to 2 white eggs the size of jelly beans in a cup like nest.
Pretty cool!
I don't know how many different kinds of Hummingbirds there are, so I'll have to see.