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As the Earth orbits round the Sun it turns on its axis, rotating right round in 24 hours.  The side of the Earth that faces the Sun has daytime and the side of the Earth that is turned away from the Sun has night-time.  When it is daytime in Britain, it is night-time on the opposite side of the Earth in New Zealand.

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Beautiful Earth, home to plants, animals and humans, is the third planet fromthe Sun. It’s the fifth largest planet. Some of the other planets have atmospheres,seasons and even water, but only Earth combines all these elements in just the right way. Earth is the only place in the solar system where life is known to be found.

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Most of the places on Earth experience four seasons, caused by the earth’s rotation and tilt. When it’s winter in the northern hemisphere, it’s summer in the southern hemisphere, and vice versa. The Earth is surrounded by a blanket of gases that protects it from the sun. The atmosphere is mostly nitrogen – about 78 percent. The atmosphere also contains oxygen.

Earth is often called the ocean planet. Its surface is 70 percent water.

Fun Facts about Earth for Kids

Earth is often called the ocean planet. Its surface is 70 percent water. Theoceans help regulate the temperature of the planet and influence weather.

The Earth has a molten inner core made of iron and other metals. Under theEarth’s crust are plates that slowly move against each other. This movement causes mountains, hills, volcanoes and even earthquakes.

The Earth’s atmosphere protects the planet from meteors. They usually burn up before they reach the Earth’s surface.

A strong magnetic field keeps our atmosphere securely blanketed around the Earth.

The Earth’s atmosphere protects the planet from meteors.The atmosphere is mostly nitrogen – about 78 percent. The atmosphere also contains oxygen.

Earth Vocabulary

1. Rotation: turning

2. Hemisphere: half of the Earth’s surface

3. Molten: metal or rock that is so hot that it melts and becomes liquid

4. Meteors: flying pieces of rock and space debris

Earth is the only place in the solar system where life is known to be found.

Learn More All About Earth, Our Planet

Watch and listen to this Earth video:

A video song all about Earth.

Earth Q&A

Question: When was the first photo of Earth taken from space?

Answer: Before December, 1968, people really had no idea what the Earth looked like from space. The Apollo 8 crew snapped photos of the Earth from themoon’s orbit.

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A strong magnetic field keeps our atmosphere securely blanketed around the Earth.

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The Earth’s atmosphere protects the planet from meteors. They usually burn up before they reach the Earth’s surface.

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The Earth has a molten inner core made of iron and other metals. Under theEarth’s crust are plates that slowly move against each other. This movement causes mountains, hills, volcanoes and even earthquakes.

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Earth is often called the ocean planet. Its surface is 70 percent water. Theoceans help regulate the temperature of the planet and influence weather.

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Most of the places on Earth experience four seasons, caused by the earth’s rotation and tilt. When it’s winter in the northern hemisphere, it’s summer in the southern hemisphere, and vice versa. The Earth is surrounded by a blanket of gases that protects it from the sun. The atmosphere is mostly nitrogen – about 78 percent. The atmosphere also contains oxygen.

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Earth taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in 1972

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The Earth’s diameter, the distance round its middle at the Equator, is 7928 miles, or 12760 kilometres.

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The Earth is not an exact sphere; the diameter going round the North and South Poles is slightly less than the diameter round the Equator.  The Polar diameter is 7891 miles, or 12700 kilometres.  (Try measuring the different diameters of an orange and you will see how they can differ).

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The Earth is larger than Mercury, Venus and Mars, the planets closest to it.  On astronomy maps it often looks smaller than Venus because Venus is shown with a thick layer  of sulphuric acid which lies 40 miles above the

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The Earth differs from all the other planets because it has such a wide diversity of life and intelligent beings.  This has only been possible because of the Earth’s atmosphere which has protected the Earth and allowed life to flourish.

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The Earth differs from all the other planets because it has such a wide diversity of life and intelligent beings.  This has only been possible because of the Earth’s atmosphere which has protected the Earth and allowed life to flourish.

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The Earth is not an exact sphere; the diameter going round the North and South Poles is slightly less than the diameter round the Equator.  The Polar diameter is 7891 miles, or 12700 kilometres.  (Try measuring the different diameters of an orange and you will see how they can differ).

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The Earth is 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometres from the Sun.

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We can also say that the Earth is 1 AU from the Sun. Astronomers (people who study the planets and stars) use a measurement called an Astronomical Unit, AU.  Earth’s measurements are taken as the standard for this system, so Earth is 1 AU from the Sun, Venus is 0.72 AU from the Sun and Mars is 1.52 AU from the Sun.  Pluto, furthest out, is 39.5 AU from the Sun.  How many million miles from the Sun is Pluto

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At this time the southern hemisphere is tilted very slightly towards the Sun and the southern hemisphere has summer.  Winter in  Britain means summer in  New Zealand.  Closer to the Equator there is much less difference between summer and winter.

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As the Earth orbits round the Sun it tilts very slightly and so gives us the seasons.  When the Earth has tilted so that the northern half of the Earth is a little away from the Sun, the northern hemisphere (meaning half of the Earth’s sphere) has winter

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As the Earth orbits round the Sun it turns on its axis, rotating right round in 24 hours.  The side of the Earth that faces the Sun has daytime and the side of the Earth that is turned away from the Sun has night-time.  When it is daytime in Britain, it is night-time on the opposite side of the Earth in New Zealand.

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The planets closer to the Sun, Mercury and Venus, have shorter years than the Earth.  The planets further away from the Sun have longer years; Plutotakes 249 of our years to make one orbit of the Sun.

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The planets of the Solar System.

The Earth takes 365¼ days to complete its orbit round the Sun.  The Earth’s year is therefore 365 days long but the ¼ days are added up and every fourth year has one extra day, on the 29th of February.  This fourth year is called a Leap Year (366 days) and is always a year which can be divided exactly by 4 – 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016.

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The Earth is the third planet from the Sun and comes between the planet Venus and the planet Mars.

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When viewed from outer space much of the Earth’s surface cannot be seen because of clouds of water vapour.  The water vapour makes the Earth, when seen from outside, into a brilliant shining orb, as you can see in Figure 1.

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As a result of the Earth’s geological activity (the volcanoes and earthquakes) the surface of the Earth has far fewer craters than the surface of planets such as Mars, Venus and Mercury or the surface of the Moon.  The craters have sunk down or been worn away by wind and rain over millions of years.

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The Earth is fragile.  Its surface is split into plates (tectonic plates) which float on a rocky mantle – the layer between the surface of the earth, its crust, and its hot liquid core.  The inside of the Earth is active andearthquakes, volcanoes and mountain building takes place along the boundaries of the tectonic plates.

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It is the only planet in the solar system that has life.

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The Earth is the only inner planet (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) to have one large satellite, the Moon

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It is the only planet that has liquid water on its surface.

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It is the only planet that has liquid water on its surface.

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It is the only planet that has an atmosphere containing 21 percent oxygen.