Earth

Earth

Earth
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 6 to 8
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	6.29

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		standing, radiation, atmosphere, disagreement, universe, astronomer, provided, prove, theory, provides, unique, evidence, likely, position, space, traveled
	content words:		Nicolaus Copernicus, Heavenly Spheres, In Italy, In Germany, Johannes Kepler

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Earth
By Sharon Fabian

¹     People have always known about planet Earth. Even the most ancient people knew about Earth. It was what they slept on every night. The trees that they took shelter under grew from the earth. Earth provided plants for their food and animals for them to hunt.

²     There is one thing that these ancient people didn't know about Earth; they didn't know that Earth is a planet. If someone had told them that Earth floats in space and revolves around the sun, they probably would have just looked at that person like he was crazy.

³     Common sense told people that Earth was at the center of the universe and that it was standing still. After all, no one could see it move, and no one could feel it move. From all appearances, Earth stood still while other objects in the sky moved around it. Everyone could see that the sun rose in the east every morning and set in the west every evening. The moon traveled across the sky too. Even some stars changed their position in the sky.

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