Closer Equator facts
While investigating facts about More Daylight Closer Equator and Shorter Days Closer Equator, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Until 11,000 years ago milk was toxic to humans, that the only way we could consume it was lowering the lactose levels by turning it into cheese, that today only one third of adults are lactose tolerant, and that the closer you get to the equator the lower the tolerance level is.
how much closer to the sun is the equator?
You weigh less the closer you are to the equator
What states are closer to the equator?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what country is closer to the equator. Here are 7 of the best facts about Is The Equator Closer To The Sun and Are Countries Closer To The Equator Hotter I managed to collect.
what happens to the ecosystem as it gets closer to the equator?
-
There are two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos which were discovered by Asaph Hall in 1877. Both have a nearly circular orbit and travel close to the plane of the planet's equator. Phobos is slowly moving closer to Mars and could crash into the planet in 40 to 50 million years.
-
Chimborazo, an ice-covered mountain in Ecuador, is the world's highest mountain if measured from the center of Earth. Because Earth bulges at the center, mountains near the Equator stick farther out into space than those closer to the poles.
-
Biodiversity increases the closer it is to the equator. And scientist have no idea why.
-
People who live closer to the earth’s poles (Aus, NZ, Canada, Iceland) have higher risk for MS than those closer to the equator
-
Over 50% of Canadians live south of 42°50’ — this is closer to the equator than Portland, OR, USA (42°52’)
