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The Earth in the Solar System

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Incredible facts about the Earth's place in the solar system.
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The Earth in the Solar System

Incredible facts about the Earth's place in the solar system.

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How many planets do we have in our solar system?
...
(without the little pseudo-planet)

10
8
7
5
ⓘ

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Pluto is considered a pseudo-planet.

The Earth is at what average distance from the Sun?
Light travels for approx. 8 minutes.

300 thousand km
5 million km
500 million km
150 million km

Right now you're traveling with the earth very fast around the sun.

How fast, approximately?

300 meters per second
30 km per second
3 meters per second
1 mile per second
ⓘ

The (average orbital) speed of the Earth is 29.8 km/s or 107 thousand km/h. Oops.

The Earth has an equatorial radius of how many kilometers?

3 466 km
1,285 km
34 000 km
6 378 km
ⓘ

This is 3963 miles

The Earth is a sphere flattened at the poles.

What is the difference between the polar radius and the equatorial radius?

15 meters
500 km
12 km
1 km
ⓘ

12 km over 6378 km for radius, that is about 0.2 %.

The Earth formed about _____ years ago.

4.5 billion
1,000 billion
2 billion
5 million
ⓘ

That is 4,500,000,000 years

The sun revolves around the Earth.

Oui
Non
ⓘ

Until the 17th century the theory of geocentrism dominated. Nicolas Copernicus was the first to propose, around 1513, a heliocentric model, where the sun is in the center.

The Earth has a revolution period around the sun of how many days?

537 days
255 days
365.25 days
355 days
ⓘ

It's a year.

The Earth's inner core is a solid ball with a radius of 1,220 kilometres. What's it made of?

salt crystals
rock
of an iron-nickel alloy
of a gold and chromium alloy

The Earth interacts with the Moon.

This interaction is responsible for ... ?

the tides on Earth
bad weather
the seasons
global warming

The Earth's solid crust is about _____ thick.

755 km
100 meters
66 km
1 km
ⓘ

If the Earth were an apple, this solid part would be the apple peel.

The axis of the Earth's rotation is tilted by 23°.

This is the cause of what natural phenomenon?

night and day
the tides
the saions
the color of the sky

Where does the water in the oceans  come from?

Two hypotheses are favoured by scientists.

extraterrestrial civilizations
comets and meteorites
from hydrogen and oxygen of the Earth's interior...
solar winds
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