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They’ve been known to survive near fatal accidents with ease due to sheer plot convenience, such as blackholes (Scrat in Ice Age 4 and Loki in the first Thor movie), or even death itself (Scrat has died in the past, but was strong willed enough to renter his body as a soul; Loki often fakes his death to manipulate things in his favor).
Hace 6 horas · An ice cap is a mass of glacial ice that covers less than 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi) of land area covering a highland area and they feed outlet glaciers.: 52 Many Icelandic ice caps and glaciers lie above volcanoes, such as Grímsvötn and Bárðarbunga, which lie under the largest ice cap, Vatnajökull.The caldera of Grímsvötn is about 100 km 2 (39 sq mi) in area, and Bárðarbunga is about ...
Hace 6 horas · Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun.It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume, by a small margin, but is less massive than Eris.Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and rock ...
Hace 6 horas · Etymology and name. The genus name Apis is Latin for "bee". Although modern dictionaries may refer to Apis as either honey bee or honeybee, entomologist Robert Snodgrass asserts that correct usage requires two words, i.e., honey bee, because it is a kind or type of bee.It is incorrect to run the two words together, as in dragonfly or butterfly, which are appropriate because dragonflies and ...
Hace 1 día · The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the diameter of Earth. Over time Earth's gravity has caused tidal locking, causing the same side of the Moon to always face Earth. Because of this, the lunar day and the lunar month are the same length, at 29.5 Earth days. The Moon's gravitational pull – and to a lesser ...
Hace 1 día · Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen countries. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country.Russia is a highly urbanized country including 16 population centers with over a million ...
Hace 6 horas · This is a list of present-day cities by the time period over which they have been continuously inhabited as a city. The age claims listed are generally disputed. Differences in opinion can result from different definitions of "city" as well as "continuous habitation" and historical evidence is often disputed.Caveats (and sources) to the validity of each claim are discussed in the "Notes" column.
