2006-10-15 06:34:44 · 10 answers · asked by DIANNE C 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Gravity and the speed at which the Earth travels make the Earth mostly round--slightly fatter at the equator.
2006-10-15 06:42:40 · answer #1 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth isn't actually round. Thanks to the earths rotational axis there are actually two flatter spots at the top and bottom.
Matter attracts matter (all things are attracted to other things but the force is so tiny we can't see it) and so bits of dirt, asteroid, rock etc are attracted to each other in one big clump and we recognise this force (helped by the spinning of the earth) as the earths gravitational pull. Everything is attracted or pulled towards the center of the earth.
If the earth were cubed shaped some points (like the corners) would be further away from the center. The natural pull is towards the center so the matter will spread out (the corners will dissapear) to cover the areas with the stronger pull and thus be getting closer to the center point .
2006-10-15 06:47:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are extensive quantities of evidence that the international is flat. If people have been heading in a airplane from long island to Beijing they could ought to make a U-turn the place land dropped off to get to the different part. additionally if the Earth is a disk how do we've oceans, the lithosphere, the asthenosphere and the outer and inner cores that are hundreds of kilometers thick. no you will fall off the backside of the Earth by way of gravity, a theory you may desire to be attentive to. Gravity is led to by using the curvature an merchandise makes on the interstellar airplane, and is exerted between all gadgets of the universe. asserting the Earth is flat could be attempting to disprove the regulation of usual gravitation by way of fact all gadgets with a sufficient mass could desire to pull themselves right into a spheroid. The Earth is an oblate spheroid. you're young ones are precise.
2016-10-16 05:35:42 · answer #3 · answered by wysong 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At one time the world was a liquid mass. Liquid spinning takes on a round form.
Lead shot is made by pouring melted lead through a screen at the top of a shot-tower. As the lead drops through the air in its long drop, it becomes perfectly round. Water at the bottom cools the lead. Even drops of water falling through the air become round. We think of tear-drop shape, but that's only as it's beginning to release.
Think of the earth in its liquid form as the lead shot or water dripping from the faucet.
2006-10-15 07:00:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Round Earth Day
... students might answer, "Because the Earth's shadow makes it that way," which is ... have a guided inquiry about what the shape of the Earth really is, and why. ...www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/slm/roundearthday.htm
2006-10-15 06:39:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the earth is round becuase the core is shaped like a ball, and all the other layers follow it
2006-10-15 06:42:44 · answer #6 · answered by bernie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The maxium volume for any given shape is a sphere. It is a natural phenomenon for heavenly bodies to assume this shape...except perhaps for Halle Berry
2006-10-15 07:03:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Round is trendy
2006-10-15 06:41:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth isn't round, it is an oblate spheroid.
2006-10-15 07:23:18 · answer #9 · answered by appalachianlimbo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because gravity works in all directions so things get attracted evenly accross the surface
2006-10-15 06:44:44 · answer #10 · answered by cool_clearwater 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋