Far from it. With an average wind speed of 10.4 miles per hour, Chicago ranks 16th in the list of windy American cities.
Here are the top five, with average wind speeds (in miles per hour):
1. Great Falls, Montana. 13.1
2. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 13
3. Boston, Massachusetts. 12.9
4. Cheyenne, Wyoming. 12.8
5. Wichita, Kansas. 12.7
The highest elevation is Mount McKinley, Alaska, at 20,320 feet. The lowest is Death Valley, California, at 282 feet below sea level. The average elevation of the United States is 2,500 feet.
At any given time on a clear night in a dark place with no obstructions on the horizon, 2,500 stars are visible to the naked eye.
According to Albert Einstein’s law on the equivalence of mass and energy, the energy (E) of a quantity of matter is equal to the product of the quantity’s mass (m) and the square of the velocity of light (c).
Yes. There are three gluteus muscles, the large, fleshy muscles of the buttocks that connect the hipbone (the pelvic girdle) and the thighbone (the femur). The gluteus maximus is the muscle at the surface of the buttocks, below which is the gluteus medius. The gluteus minimus is below that.
In descending order, the top five are: 1. New Jersey. 96 2. New York. 63 3. Pennsylvania. 61 4. Michigan. 58 5. California. 48
A gamete is a mature, functional sex cell (i.e., an egg or sperm) that can unite with a gamete of the opposite sex. A zygote is what results when the two gametes fuse.