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Earth is the third planet from the Sun.

Earth may also refer to:

Science

• Earth (classical element), one of the four Greek classical elements
• Earth (Wu Xing), one of the Wu Xing (five elements in traditional Chinese philosophy)
• Earth, soil or dirt , the material in which plants grow (usually brown)
  • Earth-eating or geophagy, the practice of eating soil
• Earth, used as a zero potential reference, see ground (electricity)
• Earth (chemistry), a class of elements or compounds (rare earth)

Places

• Earth, Texas, a small town in the United States

Arts

Literature

• Earth (novel), a science fiction book by David Brin
• Earth (Farca), a science fiction book by Marie C. Farca
• The Earth (Asimov), a book by Isaac Asimov
• The Earth, English title of La Terre, a French novel by Émile Zola
• Earth (novel), a science fiction book by David Brin
• Earth (novel), one of the four Knot-Shop Man stories by David Whiteland
• Earth-Two, a parallel world in the DC Multiverse
• Earth-Three a new parallel world discovered recently in the DC Multiverse

Music

• Earth, original name of British group Black Sabbath
• Earth (band), an American drone metal band
• Earth (Vangelis album), a 1973 album by Vangelis
• Earth (Matthew Sweet album), a 1989 album by Matthew Sweet
• Earth (Jefferson Starship album)
• "Earth Song", a 1995 song by Michael Jackson
• "Planet Earth" (song), by Duran Duran
• Earth (Japanese band), J-Pop group
• "Earth" , a single by the group Smile
• K-Earth, a brand used by Los Angeles radio station KRTH

Film

• Earth (1930 film), the English title of the 1930 silent film Zemlya, by Ukrainian filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko
• Earth, English title of the 1939 Tsuchi (film), by Japanese filmmaker Tomu Uchida
• Earth (1957 film), a 1957 Bulgarian film
• Earth, English title of the 1991 Aasu (film), by Japanese filmmaker Soo-Kil Kim
• Earth (1996 film), English title of the 1996 Tierra, by Spanish film-maker Julio Medem
• Earth (1998 film), by Indian-born Canadian film-maker Deepa Mehta
• Earth, English title of the 2001 documentary Maa (film), by Finnish filmmaker Veikko Aaltonen
• Earth (2007 film), 2007 documentary produced by the BBC Natural History Unit and distributed by Disneynature in the US

Television

• Earth 2 (TV series), a science fiction TV series (1994–95)
• Earth, a character in Konjiki no Gash Bell!: see List of Zatch Bell! characters
• Earth: Final Conflict, a science fiction television series originally produced by Gene Roddenberry
• Planet Earth (TV series), 2006 nature documentary series co-produced by the BBC, NHK, and Discovery Channel
• Book 2: Earth, the second season of the Nickelodeon television series Avatar: The Last Airbender

Games

• The Earth series:
  • Earth 2140
  • Earth 2150
  • Earth 2160
• Earth: 2025, an online strategy game

People

• Chief Earth Woman, an Ojibwa chief
• Trembling Earth, a Yankton Sioux chief

Other

• Eartha, the world's largest rotating globe
• Escuela de Agricultura en la Región del Trópico Húmedo, EARTH University in Costa Rica
• Google Earth, a computer program for viewing imagery of the earth
• Miss Earth, a beauty contest
• Earth, in electrical engineering, something that is connected to the Earth or at the voltage defined as zero (in the U.S., called ground; in the UK, called earth). See:
  • Earthing system
  • Ground (electricity)
  • Ground and neutral

See also

• Third planet (disambiguation)
• Gaia (disambiguation)
• Planet Earth (disambiguation)
• Terra (disambiguation)
• Mostly Harmless

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