Welcome to Planet Earth

Planet Earth, originally founded several thousands of Earth-Years ago by God, as a place for his little companions (us) to live, the planet has seen many changes and happenings, both great and small.

We Earthlings have a long and rich history of Life. We have suffered great famines and wars, and also amazing times of peace and abundance. Throughout the centuries, Humanity has loved, as well as hated one another.

Earth is an incredibly diverse place. In certain regions of our planet, the feelings brought to our senses are very cold. In others, our senses tell us that things are indeed very warm.

Earth is round, like a baseball, or globe. A few smart people, a long, long time ago, came up with clever ways to divide our giant ball into sections.

First of all, let's get familiar with DIRECTIONS.

North (Which is UP, in all locations of the earth except the North Pole.)

South (Which is DOWN in all locations excluding the South Pole.)

East (To the LEFT, when facing North)

West (To the Right, when facing North)

We also have lines to help us figure things out: Lines that that run both parallel (sideways) and horizontal (up and down) these lines are those of Latitude (sideways) and Longitude (up and down.)

It was a clever idea to come up with Latitude and Longitude. This way, we can cut up the globe into sections. The major ones are as follows:

The Northern Hemisphere (The area of earth ABOVE the EQUATOR, the line that is in the horizontal center of the globe)

To be continued below: Go to John's main page after planet earth.