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Oxygen 46.6 %
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Aluminum 8.1
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Iron 5
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Sodium 2.8
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Magnesium 2.1
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Calcium 3.6
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Potassium 2.6
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Silicon 27.7
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Other 1.5
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Here is an example of how long it takes garbage to break down:
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Plastics take 500 years
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Aluminum cans take 500 years
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Organic materials take 6 months
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Cotton, rags, and paper take 6 months.
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Earth is referred to as the BLUE PLANET. WHY? Because from space,
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the oceans combined with our atmosphere make our planet look blue.
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Earth is estimated to be 3-5 Billion Years old.
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Earth is estimated to weigh 6,585,600,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The area of the earth is almost 200 million square miles.
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Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.
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Earth's oceans are an average of 2 Miles deep.
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Earth's rotation on its axis makes a day at 24 hours...
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Earth's orbit around the sun makes a year at nearly 365 and 1/2 days
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Earth is tipped at 23 and 1/2 degrees in orbit. That axis is what causes our seasons.
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Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. The continent is almost entirely covered in ICE !
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Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.
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Breeze carries about 100 Million tons of sand particles around the earth yearly.
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That means if you live in America-you could have Sand that came from the Gobi desert in China
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Earth is the only planet with life that has been found so far.
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Earth has 1 moon, Luna.
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Earth is not a gas planet.
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Earth has the right temperature to sustain life.
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Earth has gravity.
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Earth takes 365 days to go around the sun once.
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Earth is almost the same size as Venus.
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Earth DOESN'T have aliens.
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70.3% of Earth is water.
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It is the third planet from the sun
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Its distance from the sun is 93 million miles.
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Earth has an inner core, which consists of iron-nickel. The inner core is solid.
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Earth also has an outer core, which is molten.
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The Earth's mantle is made up of mostly solid silicate.
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The crust is silicate rock.
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Earths axis is tilted at 23.5 degrees, and is the reason why we have seasons.
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The continents and oceans are on tectonic plates which move between 6 inches and 1 inch per year.
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The Earth has a much stronger magnetic field than any other planet.
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The Earth is called the Goldilocks planet because if it were much closer to the Sun the oceans would boil and evaporate. If the earth were much farther away the Oceans would freeze.
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The air on earth is 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen.
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The highest point on Earth is Mount Everest. Right now it is about 29,028 feet and is growing.
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The deepest trench is about 35,800 feet.
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The surface temperature of Earth can vary from 94 degree F to 131 degrees F.
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Earth is from the inner planets. It is after Venus.
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Earth is the third planet away from the sun.
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Its the only planet that have a proper atmosphere and people live on it.
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There are many like there are 7 deep holes in earth.
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The earth needs to be 1000 times bigger to equal Jupiter and 1 million times bigger to equal the sun!!
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Did you know that earth is the only place you can stand on space without a space suit?
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Earth is the only planet with known life forms.
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The earth was once a huge snowball
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Only planet that has water and food, trees and a water cycle
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Gravity 10 out of 10
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It is at least 4.5 billion years old.
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The earth's core is warmer than the side of the sun.
