Earth-the Wonder Planet
Earth-the Wonder Planet What is Earth? The earth is one of the eight planets that continually revolve around the sun. The planets and the Sun make our solar system. The Earth is the third planet out from the Sun, located between Venus and Mars. The Earth is a sphere made largely of rock. Two-thirds of the surface is covered by water. It is the only planet with oxygen in its atmosphere. The presence of water and oxygen is what makes the Earth a suitable planet for the existence of life. How did the Earth begin? The Earth was a clouds of gases and dust that circled around the sun about four and a half billion years ago. Then the clouds of gas started to condense and thus formed trillions of small beads. These beads then started to clump together as a single mass due to gravity. This mass is now we live on. Thus the Earth was just a ball of fire a long ago and later it got its hard crust and atmosphere due to gradual Cooling. How were the planets formed? No-one is absolutely ...