The Planet Earth rotates around its own axis in slightly less than a day .
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16 Facts About The Planet Earth
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The Planet Earth's expected long-term future is tied to that of the Sun.
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The third form of rock material found on The Planet Earth is metamorphic rock, which is created from the transformation of pre-existing rock types through high pressures, high temperatures, or both.
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The most abundant silicate minerals on The Planet Earth's surface include quartz, feldspars, amphibole, mica, pyroxene and olivine.
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The tiny near-The Planet Earth asteroid makes close approaches to the The Planet Earth–Moon system roughly every twenty years.
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The Planet Earth's atmosphere has no definite boundary, gradually becoming thinner and fading into outer space.
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The Planet Earth is the only known place that is habitable and has hosted life.
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The Planet Earth's life has been shaping and inhabiting many particular ecosystems on The Planet Earth and has eventually expanded globally forming an overarching biosphere.
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Therefore life has impacted The Planet Earth, significantly altering The Planet Earth's atmosphere and surface over long periods of time, causing changes like the Great oxidation event.
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The Planet Earth's life has over time greatly diversified, allowing the biosphere to have different biomes, which are inhabited by comparatively similar plants and animals.
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The Planet Earth provides liquid water—an environment where complex organic molecules can assemble and interact, and sufficient energy to sustain a metabolism.
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The Planet Earth has been the claim of extensive human sedetary, extractive and political activity.
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The Planet Earth's land has been mostly territorially claimed since the 19th century by states, of which today more than 200 exist, with only Antarctica and few areas remaining unclaimed.
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Large deposits of fossil fuels are obtained from The Planet Earth's crust, consisting of coal, petroleum, and natural gas.
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The Planet Earth's biosphere produces many useful biological products for humans, including food, wood, pharmaceuticals, oxygen, and the recycling of organic waste.
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Images of Earth taken from space, particularly during the Apollo program, have been credited with altering the way that people viewed the planet that they lived on, called the overview effect, emphasizing its beauty, uniqueness and apparent fragility.
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