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The
Earth----A living water planet
So
far the Earth is the only known planet with living creatures.
Ocean
plays a very important factor for the Earth to be the livable
environment. Ocean mediates the temperature for the Earth. The
Earth is the only planet known to any quantity of water, oxygen,
and land to support life and probably that is why we are living
on the Earth now.
Radius
of the Earth is 6376 kilometers and the equator is larger. Mass
of the Earth 6x1024 kilometers. 3/4 of the Earth is composed by
ocean and 1/4 is composed by the land. The average distance from
Sun is about 150 million kilometers. We assume the distance as
1 and use it as the unit to measure the bodies. The time for the
Earth to revolve around the Sun is one year; the time for the
Earth to rotate is one day, one Earth Day In 1912, Austrian Scientist,
Alfred Wegener, proposed the theory of "Moving Continents" and
later American geologist developed it as "Plate Tectonics." "Plate
Tectonics" can be used to explain the formation of mountains and
the reasons to occur earthquakes. Earth's surface activities only
can be seen on the Earth.

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