the earth

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The Earth


General information: Name: The Earth

The other names: The World, The Blue Planet

Age: 4,600 million years Weight: 597 thousand million, million, million tons. (It’s 81 times as heavy as the Moon) Address: The Solar System, the Milky Way, the Galaxy, the Universe Colors: blue, brown, green, white


The Earth is the fifth largest of the nine main planets in the Solar system.


It’s the third planet from the Sun.

The Sun is just one of many stars in the


The Earth looks blue from space because 70%, nearly three quarters, is covered with water. There are five oceans on the Earth: the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Arctic and the Southern. The oceans contain 97 % of all the waters on the Earth.


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