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No one discovered it. We started here so everyone who has ever lived has been aware of it, at least aware of the part where they lived. It's hard to say exactly which person or society first realized that earth was a planet. There is evidence that people on the five major continents all had their own awareness of the concept even though those concepts were somewhat different from each other or from what we know today.
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What do you call the layer of gases that surround your planet?
The Earth's atmosphere.
Why the earth call the green planet?
Green from chlorophyll (plants); also called 'blue' from the water.
Planet in a sentence?
A planet is a celestial body that orbits a star, is rounded by its own gravity, and does not produce its own light.
What is the time taken for a planet to travel around the sun?
Astronomers often call this the planet's year. For Earth that's about 365 and 1/4 days.
Is the moon a outer planet or inner planet?
Neither. Except perhaps in a poetic sense. Planets orbit around the sun. Moons orbit around planets. The earth has only one and we call it "the moon".
What was the first planet descovered?
The Earth (but it was not known that it was a planet at that point. When the concept of "planet" came into use there were 5 known planets:MercuryVenusMarsJupiterSaturnNote that at that point in time (ancient Sumerian or Babylonian civilization) the Earth was still not considered what we today call a "planet".
What do you call the only planet inhabited by man?
If man developed on this planet first and only, then the Earth or Tellus is the only planet inhabited by man. It might be disputed if our planet is the first one or the only one. Science does not know for certain but the odds with to days knowledge are against theories of man coming to earth from other planets.
How many planet is there?
There are 9 planets all together, although, in 2006 loads of scientists had a meeting and decided to call the 9th planet(pluto) a dwarf planet.
Is earth also call blue planet?
The earth is also called the blue planet because almost 3/4 of the earth is covered with water.
What was earth called in the Bible?
Today, we call our planet, 'earth', just as we call the ground we walk on and the soil we dig, 'earth'. But earth did not have a planetary name in the Bible, because the biblical authors did not know that it is a planet. ANSWER: In the Old Testament, Earth was referred to as the Firmament.
Which planet known as wattery planet?
Earth. Scientist were almost about to call earth "Water" instead. The earth is the watery planet because it is has 2/3 of the ratio water/land. Hoped that Helped!!
What do you call the layer of gases that surround your planet?
The Earth's atmosphere.
Why were globes called earth apples?
they called them that because they saw the earth as an apple, so they decided to call it an earth apple.
What planet in the solar system have liquid oceans?
la tierra. (Earth, I call it.)
Why the earth call the green planet?
Green from chlorophyll (plants); also called 'blue' from the water.
Planet in a sentence?
A planet is a celestial body that orbits a star, is rounded by its own gravity, and does not produce its own light.
Why is Ra the god of the sun?
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