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    Earth is the only planet known to support life. It has liquid water on its surface and is mostly covered by oceans. Earth has a molten iron core that generates a magnetic field and plates that slowly move, producing geological features. The atmosphere contains nitrogen, oxygen, and greenhouse gases. Climate is influenced by latitude, elevation, and proximity to oceans. Earth orbits the sun, rotating on a tilted axis that causes seasons, and has one moon that causes tides. Life developed in Earth's oceans billions of years ago and has increasingly altered the planet's atmosphere and surface over time. Humans now threaten the planet's environment and resources.

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    Earth is the only planet known to support life. It has liquid water on its surface and is mostly covered by oceans. Earth has a molten iron core that generates a magnetic field and plates that slowly move, producing geological features. The atmosphere contains nitrogen, oxygen, and greenhouse gases. Climate is influenced by latitude, elevation, and proximity to oceans. Earth orbits the sun, rotating on a tilted axis that causes seasons, and has one moon that causes tides. Life developed in Earth's oceans billions of years ago and has increasingly altered the planet's atmosphere and surface over time. Humans now threaten the planet's environment and resources.

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    Earth is the only planet known to support life. It has liquid water on its surface and is mostly covered by oceans. Earth has a molten iron core that generates a magnetic field and plates that slowly move, producing geological features. The atmosphere contains nitrogen, oxygen, and greenhouse gases. Climate is influenced by latitude, elevation, and proximity to oceans. Earth orbits the sun, rotating on a tilted axis that causes seasons, and has one moon that causes tides. Life developed in Earth's oceans billions of years ago and has increasingly altered the planet's atmosphere and surface over time. Humans now threaten the planet's environment and resources.

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    Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

    While
    large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface
    water. About 71% of Earth's surface is made up of the ocean, dwarfing Earth's polar ice, lakes, and
    rivers. The remaining 29% of Earth's surface is land, consisting of continents and islands. Earth's
    surface layer is formed of several slowly moving tectonic plates, interacting to produce mountain
    ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Earth's liquid outer core generates the magnetic field that
    shapes Earth's magnetosphere, deflecting destructive solar winds.
    Earth's atmosphere consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen. More solar energy is received by
    tropical regions than polar regions and is redistributed by atmospheric and ocean circulation. Water
    vapor is widely present in the atmosphere and forms clouds that cover most of the
    planet. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere like carbon dioxide (CO2) trap a part of the energy
    from the Sun close to the surface. A region's climate is governed by latitude, but also by elevation
    and proximity to moderating oceans. Severe weather, such as tropical cyclones, thunderstorms, and
    heatwaves, occurs in most areas and greatly impacts life.
    Earth is an ellipsoid with a circumference of about 40,000 km. It is the densest planet in the Solar
    System. Of the four rocky planets, it is the largest and most massive. Earth is about eight light
    minutes away from the Sun and orbits it, taking a year (about 365.25 days) to complete one
    revolution. Earth rotates around its own axis in slightly less than a day (in about 23 hours and 56
    minutes). Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to the perpendicular to its orbital plane around
    the Sun, producing seasons. Earth is orbited by one permanent natural satellite, the Moon, which
    orbits Earth at 380,000 km (1.3 light seconds) and is roughly a quarter as wide as Earth. The Moon
    always faces the Earth with the same side through tidal locking and causes tides, stabilizes Earth's
    axis, and gradually slows its rotation.
    Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. During the first billion years of Earth's history, the ocean
    formed and then life developed within it. Life spread globally and began to affect Earth's
    atmosphere and surface, leading to Earth's Great Oxidation Event two billion years
    ago. Humans emerged 300,000 years ago, and have reached a population of almost 8 billion today.
    Humans depend on Earth's biosphere and natural resources for their survival, but have increasingly
    impacted Earth's environment. Today, humanity's impact on Earth's climate, soils, waters, and
    ecosystems is unsustainable, threatening people's lives and causing widespread extinction of other
    life.

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