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From the protective atmosphere to its life-sustaining water, magnetic field, and seasons, discover how all of these factors come together to create the perfect environment for life. We’ll also ...
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Jun 15, 2015 · https://patreon.com/freeschool - Help support more content like this!Our home plane Earth is the third planet from the sun. We have one moon, liquid water, a...
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Discover the wonders of Earth, our amazing home planet! 🌍💚 In this fun and vibrant video for kids, we’ll explore Earth’s incredible features, from its spar...
- Earth is the third planet from the sun in our solar system. Its name comes from the the old English and Germanic words meaning ‘the ground’.
- Our amazing planet has been around for quite some time. By researching our planet’s rocks, scientists have calculated the Earth to be around 4.5 billion years old!
- Like all the planets, Earth orbits (travels around) around the sun. And it does so at some serious speed –– around 30 kilometres per second, in fact!
- Have you ever wondered why we have different seasons? We’ll tell you –– it’s because the Earth is tilted 23.4 degrees on its ‘axis’, an imaginary line straight through the middle of the planet form the North Pole to the South Pole.
- Structure and Surface
- Time on Earth
- Earth’s Neighbors
- Quick History
- What Does Earth Look like?
Earth is a terrestrial planet. It is small and rocky.Earth's atmosphere is the right thickness to keep the planet warm so living things like us can be there. It’s the only planet in our solar system we know of that supports life. It is mostly nitroge...One year on Earth lasts 365.25 days. That 0.25 extra means every four years we need to add one day to our calendar. We call it a leap day (in a leap year).Earth has just one Moon. It is the only planet to have just one moon.Earth has lots of spacecraft watching it. There is still a lot we can learn about our home planet.Earth is the third planet from the Sun in our solar system. That means Venus and Mars are Earth’s neighboring planets.We have known about our planet since ancient times, of course. But we didn’t know our place in the solar system for a long time.
This Apollo 11 picture taken by an astronaut in 1969 shows the Earth rising over the Moon. Doesn't it look small? This is a view of Earth looking just at the northern portion. A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite took this picture of the entire sunlit side of Earth from one million miles away.
BBC Earth Kids combines fun facts, amazing creatures, your favourite faces and a whole load of cool stuff about our awesome planet. Learn and Explore now.
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