Knowledge of the beautiful and powerful Earth

Knowledge of the beautiful and powerful Earth which many may know. We all know the beauty of this plant it can be all around us. Some may not take the time to see it and take care of it. We have lost so much from even when my mother grew up. The earth can be powerful in beauty and devastation. Earth Day is an important day for everyone to think about their beautiful home. What better way to do that than some trivia-type questions and a playlist?

knowledge of our great planet

• Earth is the 3rd planet from the Sun (For Trivia = Earth is the ______ plant from the Sun)
• Earth’s Core is compared to which plant/star = sun almost 1000 F
• Finish the song lyrics: Welcome to Earth, 3rd ……. (“star from the sun”)
• Is the Earth considered radioactive – yes (40 degrees of heat – half comes from radioactive decay) at the core
• Moss (s) are everywhere even in the desert – they can capture water straight out of the air
• Seas are expected to rise 2.5 feet by the year 2100
• Clouds help regulate Earth’s Temp
• Earth has an est age of 4.5 billion years
• No data on who coined the name “Earth”
• Which planet is not named after a Roman or Greek God – Earth
• Route 66 is longer than the distance to the Earth’s Core
• A Magnitude 12 Earthquake would split the Earth in half
• The 1st ozone hole is still healing
• When was the 1st ozone hole?
• There are a billion microbes in a tsp of soil
• The Earth isn’t exactly round + the oblate spheroid is more of a flattened round
• You can see the Earth sinking from space
• There are more viruses than stars in the universe (estimated 100 million x over)
• The average American uses 80-100 gallons of water per day
• 30 to 40% of the American Food supply is wasted annually – roughly equal to 218.9 lbs per person per year
• The global carbon footprint per person per year is around 4 tons
• The average American global carbon footprint is closer to 16 tons per person per year
• When was Earth Day founded? 1969
• The first Earth Day was in? 1970
• The US Federal Government created EPA, The Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Act partially based on Earth Day (findings)
• Earth Day went global in 1990
• The Earth Day Network states they reach people in more than 190 countries
• Annual participation in Earth Day is 1 billion individuals worldwide
• 100s of millions of trees are planted every Earth Day
• 36 million cleanup volunteers volunteer on Earth Day
• 2.7 billion “acts of green”
• Earth Day is always on April 22
• Earth Day is also known as “International Mother Earth Day”
• More than 100,000 people in China rode bikes to work in 2012 for Earth Day (makes me wonder how many normally ride their bikes to work on ordinary days)
• 28 million trees were planted in Afghanistan on Earth Day in 2011
• In 2023, the US-based “One Tree Planted organization kicked off planting by 8,187 volunteers planting 44, 427 trees, 8,395 shrubs, and 500,500 seeds
• Earth Day has a flag and a song
• Earth Day has a new theme every year
• The 2024 Theme is Planet vs Plastics (Earth Day Network). The Goal is 60% by ____
• Earth Day started in the US
• Earth Day is the largest secular Holiday in the World
• Earth is mostly iron and oxygen 32.1 iron, iron is 88% of the Earth’s core, 30.1% oxygen which is 47% of the Earth’s crust
• 7.4 billion people live on Earth
• The largest population in a single country is China
• A year on Earth is 365.25 days
• How many oceans are on Earth? 5 (Pacific, Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Southern)
• Earth is not the biggest planet. It is more in the middle
• Day and Night are due to the Earth’s rotating on its axis not it’s orbiting around the sun

Did you learn anything at all? If not, good. You know your beautiful and powerful home. Not to mention, the celebration of Earth Day.

Playlist for a fun Earth Day Celebration

If you want to add a playlist to your Earth Day Celebration, below are a few ideas for that playlist.

• John Denver – Take me home, country roads
• Kermit the Frog – It’s not easy being green
• Eiffel 65 – I’m blue
• Woody Guthrie – This land is your land
• Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton – Big Yellow Taxi
• Louie Armstrong – What a wonderful world
• Joe Diffie – 3rd rock from the sun (is probably not the best example of celebrating earth’s beauty)

Those are just some universal Earth Day songs for the US (and perhaps they have been heard in other countries as well).

I am hoping to showcase some of the beauty of the areas around me. I happen to live near some of the most beautiful places in the United States for nature lovers.