Planet Earth
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The Earth
Earth is part of our solar system which also is made up of the sun and all of the countless stuff that revolve around it.The reason we are not just floating around space is because the sun has a enormous amount of mass which keeps us from floating every where in are solar system.
The solar system
Earth is not the only thing that revolves around the sun such as asteroids, comets, and meteoroids, revolve around the sun.There is a thing called the asteroid belt that is between mars and jupiter.
Earth is not a perfect shape
Globes are a perfect sphere which the earth is not a perfect sphere.The earth has a larger diameter at the equator is about 7,930 miles, and from pole to pole it is 24,900 miles.Also earth is the largest inner planets.
What earth is manly made up of.
Earth is made up of water and land.About 70% of earth is made up of water and 30% is made up of land.Land makes up a part of the land is called lithosphere.The main landforms are mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains.Others include canyons, valleys, and basins.