Our Small Planet

You can usually use Ctrl+ and Ctrl- to zoom in and out.

While I’m sure you’ve looked at a globe before, you may not have really thought about the world we live on.

So, take a good look as it spins for us below and let’s really think about it.

The first thing that may catch your eye is Australia as it comes into view. Over 22 million people live there.

Right away, China comes into the picture, with a population of over 1.3 billion.

If you know your geography, you’ll pick out India and Saudi Arabia just as immense Africa swings into view, with a billion people all of its own.

That’s the Atlantic Ocean you see as South America arrives, looking like a matching puzzle-piece to Africa.  (And it is!)

Above that is North America with Canada and Mexico sandwiching the USA.  A little over a half-billion call it home.

And, suddenly, there’s nothing but water.

That’s the Pacific Ocean, of course, and Hawaii’s in the middle there, too small to see. But notice that there’s an awful lot of water.

Most of our world is water (71%) and we have only some of what’s left over to live on.  The North and South Poles are a little cold for most of us!

I’ll have more to say about this later but, for now, just watch the Earth turn a time or two and think about what there is to this world we live on.