In the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes the consumer price index which is used to find inflation rates. The bureau states that the consumer price index âis a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.â.
The earth ulis called a blue planet because of the presence of abundance of water in it. About 70 percent of the earth's crust is covered with water. And this imparts it with a blue colour as seen from the space.
It's not, particularly. It's called Earth in English, but it's called Terre in French, and other names in other languages. I'm sure the Chinese name for it is in fact the most common appelation. In all cases, the name is the same one used to represent dirt. People sometimes also ask why our moon doesn't have a name like other moons in the solar system. The answer is that it does, we call it 'Moon', and just happen to use that name as a generic term for other 'moons'. Earth is just what people thought up of calling our planet. Earth isn't named after anything.