Earth Facts

Earth is the third planet from the Sun, in the Solar System. The other names of The Earth are The World or The Blue Planet.

Here is some interesting facts about Earth:

• Earth has been named from the 8th century Anglo Saxon word “erda” meaning soil.
• Earth is not totally round. It is flattened at the North and South poles. 
• Earth is about 5 billion years old!
• There are more than seven billion people on Earth and the number keeps increasing every day.
• Seventy percent of the Earth is water!
• Eleven percent of the earth’s ground is used to grow crops.
• Ten percent of the Earth’s surface is ice.
• One fifth of the Earth’s land surface is covered with deserts.
• The temperature at the Earth’s core is hotter than the temperature of the surface of the Sun, at 7500K.
• The Earth’s atmosphere is composed of nitrogen (77%) oxygen (21%) and other gases like carbon dioxide and argon.
• Earth was initally just composed of hydrogen and helium.
• Particles from broken stars fell on Earth and allowed for life on Earth. 40,000 dust particles from stars land on Earth every year.
• We are made of stars!
• The Earth is the only planet on the Solar System to have the three forms of water – liquid, gas, and solid.
• It takes 8.5 minutes for the sunlight to reach Earth.
• The sun is 333,000 times larger than Earth.
• A day on Earth is 23 hours, 56 minutes and four seconds.
• About 270 million years ago a continent called Pangaea was formed on Earth. Today we have 7 continents.
• The Earth’s axis is titled at an angle 23 degrees leading us experiencing four seasons in a year.
• Earth Day is celebrated on 22nd of April, as that is the day when spring starts in the Northern Hemisphere and fall starts in the Southern Hemisphere.  

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