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The Water Planet |
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The Water Planet |
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| Seventy percent of
the Earth's surface is covered by water. The remaining 30 percent is covered
by mountains, volcanoes, deserts, plains, and valleys
Earth is the third closest planet to the Sun. It has an atmosphere made up of many different gases, but mainly it is nitrogen and oxygen. The atmosphere gives us air to breathe. We live on the planet Earth. The Earth orbits around the Sun. It takes one year to orbit the Sun. The Earth also rotates, or spins, on its axis. It takes one day to spin around one complete time. The Earth's axis is not straight up and down, but tilted a little bit. This tilt is responsible for us having seasons. Otherwise, the temperature would be the same all year long. |
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