World Geography Questions

Lagoons are formed along the coasts by the action of winds and waves. They are commonly found off the deltas of large rivers such as the Nile and Ganges.

Arsia Mons is among the three volcanos of the planet Mars. Arsia Mons is a shield volcano with a slow slope. Arsia Mons is thirty times in volumes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the largest volcano on Earth.

The nearest stars to Earth are in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system, about 4.37 light-years away. One of these stars, Proxima Centauri, is slightly closer, at 4.26 light-years.

Of all the stars closer than 15 light-years, only two are spectral type G, similar to our sun: Alpha Centauri A and Tau Ceti. The majority are M-type red dwarf stars.

Only nine of the stars in this area is bright enough to be seen by the naked human eye from Earth. These brightest stars include Alpha Centauri A and B, Sirius A, Epsilon Eridani, Procyon, 61 Cygni A and B, Epsilon Indi A and Tau Ceti.