EARTH: OUR HOME IN SPACE

All praise be yours,

my Lord, through
Sister Earth, our
mother,
Who feeds usand
produces various fruits
With colored flowers
and herbs.
-St. Francis
de Assisi, Patron Saint
of Ecology
Our planet
must not be a
stranger to us.
 EARTH

E - Every
A - Amazing
R - Reality
T - Touches our
H - Heart
 SURE,YOURE ON EARTH
( to the tune of London Bridge )
When you jump and you fall down, you fall down,
you fall down,
When you jump and you fall down;
Sure, youre on Earth!

When youre on a boat in a open sea, open sea,

open sea,
When youre on a boat in a open sea;
Sure, youre on Earth!

When youre home with a breath of life, breath of

life, breath of life,
When youre home with a breath of life;
Sure, youre on Earth!
THE EARTH
 Earth's formation and evolution

Scientists think Earth was formed at roughly the

same time as the sun and other planets some 4.6
billion years ago, when the solar system coalesced
from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as
the solar nebula
Other particles within the disk collided and stuck
together to form ever-larger bodies, including Earth.
The solar wind from the sun was so powerful that it
swept away most of the lighter elements, such as
hydrogen and helium, from the innermost worlds,
rendering Earth and its siblings into small, rocky
planets.
 Earth is the third planet from
the Sun and is the largest of
the terrestrial planets.

The Earth is the only planet

in our solar system not to be
named after a Greek or
Roman deity.
The Earth was formed
approximately 4.54 billion
years ago and is the only
known planet to support life.
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SIZE OF THE EARTH

The Earth is about 7,926 miles
(12,756 km) in diameter. The Earth
is the fifth-largest planet in our
Solar System (after Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, and Neptune).

Earth is round because gravity pulls

matter into a ball, although it is not
perfectly round, instead being more
of an "oblate spheroid" whose spin
causes it to be squashed at its poles
and swollen at the equator.
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EARTHS DENSITY, AND ESCAPE

VELOCITY
The Earth has an average
density of 5520 kg/m3 (water
has a density of 1027 kg/m3).
Earth is the densest planet in
our Solar System.
To escape the Earth's
gravitational pull, an object
must reach a velocity of
24,840 miles per hour (11,180
m/sec).
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LENGTH OF A DAY AND YEAR

ON EARTH
Each day on Earth takes 23.93 hours (that
is, it takes the Earth 23.93 hours to rotate
around its axis once - this is a SIDEREAL
DAY. Each year on Earth takes 365.26
Earth days (that is, it takes the Earth
365.26 days to orbit the Sun once).

The Earth's rotation is slowing down

very slightly over time, about one second
every 10 years.
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Earth rising
over the
moon.
Photo taken
by NASA's
Apollo 8
mission.
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THE EARTH'S ORBIT

On average, the Earth orbits 93

million miles (149,600,000 km) from the
Sun. This distance is defined as one
Astronomical Unit (AU). The Earth is
closest to the Sun (this is called perihelion)
around January 2 each year (91.4 million
miles = 147.1 million km); it is farthest
away from the Sun (this is called aphelion)
around July 2 each year (94.8 million miles
= 152.6 million km).
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 THE EARTH'S AXIS TILT AND
THE SEASONS

The Earth's axis is tilted

from perpendicular to the plane
of the ecliptic by 23.45. This
tilting is what gives us the four
seasons of the year: Summer,
Spring, Winter and Autumn.
Since the axis is tilted, different
parts of the globe are oriented
towards the Sun at different
times of the year. This affects
the amount of sunlight each
receives.
 THE EARTHS
FromSEASONS
June to August, the sun's rays hit
the Northern Hemisphere more directly
than the Southern Hemisphere. The
result is warm (summer) weather in the
Northern Hemisphere and cold (winter)
weather in the Southern Hemisphere.
From December to February, the sun's
rays hit the Northern Hemisphere less
directly than the Southern Hemisphere.
The result is cold (winter) weather in the
Northern Hemisphere and warm
(summer) weather in the Southern
Hemisphere.
 From September to November, the sun
shines equally on both hemispheres.
The result is fall in the Northern
Hemisphere and spring in the Southern
Hemisphere.
The sun also shines equally on both
hemispheres from March to May.
The result is spring in the Northern
Hemisphere and fall in the
Southern Hemisphere.
The Earths Moon
 The Moon
Profile

orbit: 384,400 km
from Earth
diameter: 3476 km
mass: 7.35e22 kg
 The Earths Moon
The Moon is 384,403 kilometers
(238,857 miles) distant from the Earth. Its
diameter is 3,476 kilometers (2,160 miles).
Both the rotation of the Moon and its
revolution around Earth takes 27 days, 7
hours, and 43 minutes. This synchronous
rotation is caused by an unsymmetrical
distribution of mass in the Moon, which has
allowed Earth's gravity to keep one lunar
hemisphere permanently turned toward
Earth.
 History of The Moon

Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and

Artemis by the Greeks, and many other
names in other mythologies.

It is the second brightest object in

the sky after the Sun.
Due to its size and composition,
the Moon is sometimes classified
as a terrestrial "planet" along with
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
Mantle
Outer Core

Inner Core

Crust
 The Earth is formed of three layers:

Mantle

Crust Outer core

Mantle Inner core

Core
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