The Planet Earth
When you go outside at night you can see millions of stars, so many you cannot
count them. There are also planets in the sky and one of them is Earth. The Earth is a
planet in which we find life. Earth is like a
big spinning ball, and because of that,
we have day and night. In the day, we
are turned toward the Sun and at night,
Crust
0 - 70 lemn
Mante
70-2891 km
Outer Coro
2391 - 5150 km
we face the Moon. When we have
innte Core
2391 - 6731 km
daylight, the other side of Earth is night.
The Earth's shape is like a ball, but is
a little flat at the top and bottom. These
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flat parts are called the North Pole and
the South Pole.
Earth is the only known planet that has life with plants and animals sharing the
surface. The Earth consists of land and water. About 1/4 of the Earth is land and about
3/4 of the earth is made up of water in the rivers, seas, and oceans. There is oxygen on
the Earth's entire surface.
The Earth belongs to a family of stars and planets called the universe, or galaxy
There are three parts to the Earth; the mantle, the core, and the crust. We live on the
crust. The center of the Earth is a solid ball of melted metals, meited rocks, and is the
core. The part between the crust and core is called the mantle.
The Earth spins
The Earth continuously spins around an imaginary line passing through its center.
This imaginary line is called the axis. The spinning of the Earth is called rotation. It takes
24 hours for the Earth to complete one rotation. That is why one day and one night
equals 24 hours.​