FACTS
This is a very interesting planet that weâre living on. Even though around 70% of it has water, the planetâs life form which is most advanced can be found on land. Below are 10 interesting facts about Earth which show you just how interesting our planet really is.
1.Our planet is the solar systemâs only one that has plate tectonics. This means that Earth has a liquid core and the crust just floats on the planetâs core.
2.Oxygen forms approximately 47% of the crust of the Earth.
3.Earth has poles both at the bottom and the top of the planet, which makes it a huge magnet.
4.An Earth day is not 24 hours long. Itâs actually 23h, 56m, 4s which is the time that the planet needs to rotate on its own axis.
5.This is the only planet from the solar system which has water in all the matter states: gas (as clouds), liquid (rain, sea, etc) and solid (ice).
6.Scientists say that an Earth day had around 20 hours a few million years ago and that a million years from now it will have 27 hours.
7.The coldest place on Earth is Vostok (in Antarctica) and the hottest one is El Azizia (from Libya).
8.The embryos of a tiger shark fight against each other in the womb of the mother. The shark embryo which survives gets born.
9.The Earthâs year has 365.2564 days. Thanks to this extra .2564, every four years, the leap year appears, which has an extra day.
10.The oldest tree from Earth is 4600 years old and itâs a bristlecone pine from California.
Above you can see 10 interesting facts about planet Earth, which show you just how special our planet is and how much is worth protecting it.
