Trivia 20 Fun Facts about Earth

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FUN FACTS ABOUT EARTH​

1. The Earth’s longest mountain range is underwater! It is 50,000 miles long and is called the Atlantic Mid-Ocean Ridge System

2. Earth may be the fifth largest You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now., but it’s the largest terrestrial planet. Terrestrial planets are planets that are made up of rocks or metals with a hard surface.

3. The Earth’s diameter (the distance through the middle) is 7,917.5 miles (12,800 km). That’s about the length of 116,150 football fields.

4. The Earth travels around the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. at 67,000 miles per hour! Comparatively, the average speed of a racecar is 200 miles per hour. Our Earth is moving FAST!

5. It takes the Earth 365 days to complete one entire orbit around the sun. We call this orbit a year.

6. The Earth is tilted 23.4 degrees on its “axis” which is an imaginary straight line through the middle of the planet.

7. The Earth is not only tilted on its imaginary axis, but it also spins. We have daytime and nighttime because of its rotation.

8. The You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. at 1,000 miles per hour. That’s 11 times as fast as a fastball thrown by a Major League Baseball pitcher.

9. The tilt of the Earth is what creates the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. — spring, summer, fall, and winter.

10. Earth looks like a ball shape or sphere, but it actually isn’t perfectly round. Our home planet bulges slightly around the equator.

11. The honey mushroom (Armillia bulbosa) fungus in You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. is the largest and oldest living organism in the world. It spans 2,200 acres. That’s about a 10th of the size of the entire Disney World theme park in Florida.

12. The word Earth is at least 1,000 years old. It originates from Old English and German words meaning ground.

13. The North Pole is located in the middle of the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. Ocean on drifting ice. That means it’s difficult for scientists to study, and it also means it moves.

14. Earth is the only planet in our solar system that is known to support life. Its distance from the Sun means it’s not too hot or cold for living things to survive.

15. There are thousands of man-made satellites in space, but Earth has just one natural satellite — the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..

16. Research suggests that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Scientists at the National Center for Science Education estimated this approximate age by dating rocks and meteorites.

17. Seventy-one percent of the surface of the Earth is covered by water. That means only 29 percent is land.

18. Only 3 percent of the Earth’s water is fresh! The rest — 97 percent — is You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now..

19. The Greek name for Earth was Gaia. It means “Mother Earth.”

20. The Earth’s atmosphere is mostly made up of You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. and nitrogen. This allows us to breathe.

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