2006-08-04 18:27:51 · 7 answers · asked by shawn 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
That sophomoric exercise has been grossly overdone ever since the hippie days.
2006-08-04 18:31:21 · answer #1 · answered by badbear 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are we using the scientific method?
The earth is a closed system. This means nothing new externally is added.
Living organisms (anything that is alive) have one criteria: reproduction. A rock is not a living organisms, because a rock does not reproduce.
But in this closed system we can find many processes. For example, water has three states: frozen, liquid, and gas which we call ice, water, and stream. Chemistry and physics.
We have different process regarding birth, after birth before death, and death.
Now to your question: The earth is not a living organism because the earth does not reproduce. The earth which is a closed system has lots of processes. Even as much as we know about these processes, there are more waiting to be explored.
2006-08-05 01:41:10 · answer #2 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the earth is a living organism, then we must be a bunch of parasites.
2006-08-05 01:33:18 · answer #3 · answered by Pacman35 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is living just as you and i. Its blood is the water, its air is a chemical make up of our atmosphere. Its lungs are the atmosphere. Its skeleton is the core of the earth and the land masses. There ya go just have to expand upon those ideas.
2006-08-05 01:31:50 · answer #4 · answered by Joe Knows 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for starters, it "breathes" as the northern hemisphere goes through summer and winter due to the respiration of trees.
2006-08-05 01:31:59 · answer #5 · answered by dr schmitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its made of the same stuff we are. everything is made of the same stuff. atoms. stardust.
2006-08-05 01:32:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's ever changing
2006-08-05 01:31:45 · answer #7 · answered by Princess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋