Introducing Planet Earth

Introducing Planet Earth

Let me introduce myself. I am Planet Earth. I am the luckiest planet in our solar system. I can support life!

Look at Mercury so close to the Sun. Hot, hot, hot. Even one of my desert rats could not live in that heat! Cold dwarf planet Pluto sits so far from the Sun. Brrrr. How would you like to be a frozen Popsicle Planet? Not me.

I have all the things life needs一 land, water, air, and energy from the Sun. I have five oceans and seven huge pieces of land called continents. On land, I even have lakes and rivers filled with fresh water that plants and animals need.

I spin like a top so that all living things have day and night. People call this rotating.

Try This! Want to see what makes day and night? Get a flashlight and a friend to be the Sun. You be Earth. Earth spins around slowly. It's daytime on the side of your body facing the Sun! It's nighttime on the side turned away from the Sun.