EARTHKAT+++;+)


 * EARTHKAT ; )**
 * .Age:** 4.6 billion years old.


 * .Position:** 3rd planet from the sun.


 * .Size:** 5th largest planet in our solar system


 * .Surface Area:** 197 million square miles, about 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered with water 30% land


 * .Diameter:** The Earth has an average diameter of 12,742 kilometers. (7,926 miles)


 * .Average Temperature:** The temperature at the Earth's core is estimated to be between 5000 and 7000 degrees Celsius.


 * .Length of Year:** 365.25 days


 * .Inclination of Axis:** The Earth's axis has a tilt of about 23 ½ degrees. It is this tilt which causes the seasons.


 * .Chemical Composition:** The Earth is made mostly of iron, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, nickel and sulfur: 34.6% Iron, 29.5% Oxygen, 15.2% Silicon, 12.7% Magnesium, 2.4% Nickel, 1.9% Sulfur, 0.05% Titanium


 * .Population: (as of 2008) 6,692,030,277

.Circumference at Equator:** 24,901.55 miles (40,075.16 km)

**.Circumference Between North and South Poles:** 24,859.82 miles (40,008 km)


 * .Diameter at Equator: 7,926.28 miles (12,756.1 km ** )


 * .Diameter at Poles: 7,899.80 miles (12,713.5 km)

.Average Distance from Earth to Sun: 93,020,000 miles (149,669,180 km)

.Average Distance from Earth to Moon:** 238,857 miles (384,403.1 km)


 * .Mass:** Earth's Mass is 5.9736×1024 kg


 * .Sun to Earth (diameter):** the sun is about 109 times the diameter of Earth


 * .Sun to Earth (weight):** the sun weighs about 333,000 times as much as Earth


 * .Sun to Earth (continued):** 1,300,000 planet Earths can fit inside sun


 * .Peroid of Revolution:** about 365.25 days


 * .Peroid of Orbit:** 365.26 days


 * .Peroid of Rotation:** 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 second


 * .Temperature in Artic:** -34°C on average


 * .Temperature at equator:** 38 °C on average


 * .Coldest temperature ever:** −89.2 °C

**.Highest temperature ever recorded:** 57.8 ° C


 * .Distance to sun:** 9.302 x 10 to the 7 miles


 * .Atmosphere:** 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% argon, and 0.03% carbon dioxide with very small percentages of other elements. Our atmosphere also contains water vapor. In addition, Earth's atmosphere contains traces of dust particles, pollen, plant grains and other solid particles.


 * .Moon:** one moon. mass: 7.347 7 × 1022 KG (0.012 3 Earths)


 * .Rings:** has no rings


 * .Layers:** inner core (solid metals), outer core (liquid metals), mantle (molten rock under surface), and crust (holds all the pieces together)


 * .Named for?:** not named after a person, real or mythical. only planet not named after a mythical god.named after what its people live on, earth (or soil)


 * .Highest Mountain:** peak of Mount Everest is 8,848 meters


 * .Lowest Point on Earth:** Dead Sea 420 meters below sea level


 * .Identifing Earth:** Earth is the only planet (that we know of) with an ozone layer, liquid water, and life. it is blue and green. Has very few craters.


 * .Storms:** Earth has many different storms depending where you are. these storms happen at random. Storms include: Ice Storm Blizzard Snowstorm Firestorm Dust devil E uropean windstorm Squall Windstorm Gale Thunderstorm Tornado Hailstorm Tropical Cyclone hurricane


 * .Bibliography:** [|http://geology.com]; [|www.universetoday.com]; [|http://curious.astro.cornell.edu]; [|http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov]; [|http://www.weather.com]