What are the top ten lakes in the world in terms of water surface area? Detailed answer

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What are the top ten lakes in the world in terms of water surface area?

The ten largest lakes in the world are the following (numbers indicate the mirror area in square kilometers): the Caspian Sea (Europe and Asia, 396), Superior (North America, 000), Victoria (East Africa, 82), Huron (North America, 413), Michigan (North America, 68), Aral Sea (Central Asia, 800), Tanganyika (East Africa, 60), Big Bear (North America, 700), Baikal (Siberia, 58) ) and Nyasa (East Africa, 020).

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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The thickness of the outer part of the earth's crust in different places ranges from 15 to 50 km, and its temperature increases as it approaches the center of the earth. Approximately every 40 m it increases by one degree. At a depth of three kilometers it is so hot that if you lower a glass of water there, it will begin to boil!

If it were possible to descend 50 km deep into the earth's surface, then the thermometer would show 1100 ° C. In such conditions, even rocks begin to melt. According to scientists, in the center of the Earth the temperature reaches 5500 °C.

The earth's crust consists of two layers. The upper one is the granite slabs of the continents. Beneath it is a thick layer of very hard black rock called basalt. It forms oceanic depressions, and continents rest on it. The center of the Earth, according to scientists, is a hot ball of liquid iron with a diameter of about 6500 km.

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