what physical features ON EARTH are affected by gravity??

Question

Im not talking about human physical features!!!! Like, mountains, weather, global warming, etc!!!!!

ANY SPECIFIC EXAMPLES???

Answer 1

This is a hard question to answer because there are SO many answers.

Everything on earth is affected by gravity.

The air stays here because of it

Weather could not happen without it

Water pools into lakes and oceans because of it

Rivers flow

Waterfalls fall

Trees fall in the woods when there's no one around to hear.

Get it?

Everything is affected by gravity. You can't have Mass without it, they are essentially one in the same.

edit: weather is affected by gravity because it is gravity which determines whether water vapor and parcels of air move up or down relative to each other--without gravity there would be no weather, no rain, no wind, none of it. Especially since with no gravity there would be no Earth. So yes, gravity DOES affect weather. Even the weather on Venus.

Answer 2

Mountains would be shorter if gravity were higher and higher if gravity were less, because really high, steep mountains could not support themselves in a higher gravity field. I don't see how gravity would effect weather or global warming. Venus has about the same gravity as Earth and it has much stronger winds and global warming about a jillion times worse than Earth ever will, so something other than gravity is the important factor in global warming.

Answer 3

Volcanoes on Earth can never reach the size of Olympus Mons on Mars because of the stronger gravity on Earth. The biggest mountain/volcano on Earth is Mauna Kea (the big Hawaiian island) - and Olympus Mons is over 2.5x taller. Olympus mons was able to grow to that height partly because the gravity on mars is much less than that on Earth.

Glacial features are also the result of gravity.

Answer 4

Tides are created by the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon.

Wind is created when the heavier cold air sinks below the hotter air which is rising. Gravity is what makes one object heavier than another.

Gravity is what allows slides and rivers to flow.

Gravity creates plate tectonics because gravity determines when something is light or heavy.

It allows things like icebergs to float because again gravity determines what objects are lighter than others.

Answer 5

Any physical feature that involves particles with mass are affected by earth's gravity. Without the earth's gravity, those particles would just float away, rain would not fall, snow would not fall, form snow pack and create rivers that erode, etc., etc., etc.

Answer 6

Anything and everthing made up of particles will have the effect of gravity.

Answer 7

under ground caverns, rivers, stalactites, stalagmites, glaciers etc.

Answer 8

water - tides