Facts and Opinions About our Planet
The following list has three facts and three opinions about the planet earth. Can you tell which are facts and which are opinions?
- The Earth has one moon.
- The Earth is the best planet in the universe.
- 71% of the surface of Earth is covered in water.
- The Earth is beautiful.
- The Earth’s diameter, the distance round its middle at the Equator, is 7928 miles, or 12760 kilometres.
- The Earth tastes good.
Remember: Facts can be proven, real for all people and places, can be duplicated, can be observed, historical, or 100 percent true. Usually they involve numbers and other measurable components. Opinions refer to a particular person’s (or group’s) feeling, thought, judgment, belief, estimate, and/or anything that is not 100 percent true and can’t be proven.
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