Important Points About The Earth

The earth is the third planet from the sun. It is the only planet known to have an atmosphere containing free oxygen,water and life.

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The Earth

Important Points

  1. Earth ‘s motion is ellip­ti­cal orbit around the sun in one year. It caus­es change of sea­son and vari­a­tion of the length of the days and nights at dif­fer­ent times of the year.
  2. In order to under­stand var­i­ous loca­tions on the Earth, it has been divid­ed into 3 parts I.e. Equa­tor, Lon­gi­tudes and lat­i­tude. These are the imag­i­nary lines drawn on the Earth­’s Surface.
  3. Lat­i­tude lines cir­cle the globe in an East — west direc­tion. It mea­sures how far North or South a point lies from the equator.
  4. The equa­tor is at 0°Latitude and seprate Earth­’s North­ern and South­ern Hemisphere.
  5. Lon­gi­tude lines run from the North pole to the south pole. It mea­sures how far East or West a point on Earth lies from the Prime Meridian.
  6. The Prime Merid­i­an, The line of lon­gi­tude that pass­es through Green­wich, Eng­land , is the 0°longitude line.
  7. Eclipse is anoth­er Phe­nom­e­non which take place at reg­u­lar inter­val . when the light of the sun or the moon is blocked by anoth­er body,the sun or the moon is said to be in eclipse .
  8. Solar eclipse is caused when the moon comes in between the Earth and The sun.
  9. Lunar eclipse is caused when the Earth comes between the moon and the Sun.

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