Land features, land features. You may have seen in movies that when someone gets lost in a desert, they cannot see anything inside except sand. Well, for some that's true. A desert is a large area of barren n land, and the largest of them is the sahara desert in north africa, covering an enormous area of nine million, one hundred thousand square kilometers. All of us know that the highest mountain in the world is mount everest. But where did he get its named from? Well, IT is named after sir George arrest, the surveyor general of india, who let the survey that gave peak XP the status of the highest mountain of the world and the name mountain forest that was about the highest mountain. But do you know which is the longest mountain range in the world? Seven thousand, two hundred forty two kilometers long, the andes in south amErica is the longest mountain range in the world. All the continents were once a part of one huge landmass. Over millennia, this land mass broke into pieces, and those pieces are now the continents we live in. Did you know that the earth is still breaking up the rift valley that divides kenya down the length of the country is an example of this continuous process. Thousands of years in the future, this will lead to the origin of yet another continent. Did you know that some of the Scottish highlands are formed from the oldest mountains in the world? Some of them are at least four hundred million years old. Did you know that no trees can grow in the arctic tundra? They can't, because the tundra has a permanently froze and soil, which is known as permafrost. Do you know how low is the lowest point on earth? IT is one thousand, three hundred two meters below sea level. And do you know where the lowest point is? IT is the dead sea located in the Jordan rift valley. Some of us eto live, and some of us live to eat. In any case, all of us need to eat. And with so many people in the world today, we need to produce a lot of food. But in reality, only eleven percent of the surface of the earth is used for growing food. And arctic a has a hat trick of extremes. IT is the highest, the rist, and the cold is continent in the world. Embark gona discovery of five hundred amazing facts about the world around us. With this addition of five hundred fantastic facts, this fantastic Victoria reference guide will fascinate and educate children of all ages.