what is earth?

Answer 1

Earth is a chunk of rock made from compressed star matter. It is home.

Answer 2

Earth (if you don't mean the planet) is what's produced by the environmental factors that affect rocks. All kinds of rocks. Rain, wind, plants, even animals and insects, use rock and affect rock, turning it into a dust of different kinds, Dead things slowly decay in the dust, or living things eat or use the dust in various ways, water and natural filters wind up changing the rock into stuff like clay and loam, soil that we use for plants.

It is, In British-speak, also the word that means "ground," as in an electrical ground.

Answer 3

Earth is 1/3 h2o and 2/3 soil,plants and living things scientists call organisms.God created many orbs called stars, planets,aand even blk holes

Answer 4

A very interesting question and ofcourse one of the most difficult to answer as well.

The answer to this fundamental question is to be sought beyond saying that earth is about 3/4 water and about 1/4 of land or is where I live and play. This question has haunted the earliest man, the modern man and is still haunting the present man (not gender wise). The philosophers, the scientists and common people like you and me are also trying to know what earth is. The final answer is still not seen at the horizon. Geology is the science of earth, it has tried to find this answer but, still a final answer is awaited. (1)Earth is a unique planet of our solar system conducive to support lifeforms.
(2) Earth came into existence along with the solar system.
(3) Earth spin and revolves around the sun.
(3) Broadly it has four concentric segments from surface to its centre, called crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. Not going into the fines aspects of each, suffice to say that each segment has characteristic physico-chemical composition and behavior.
Most of this information is either conjectural or indirect.
(4) We must admit our knowledge is still skin deep only, we have more knowledge of the surface of the earth than we have of couple of meters below it, and even for this we have to take help of explorations of different kinds (surface and sub-surface ). We also know about the subsurface information from the deepest mines (+3km or more) like Kolar in India and the Gold mines of Johannesburg, South Africa; deep drilling programmes in the ocean etc. Considering the volume of the earth all these can be said to be just spot values only. Seismic surveys and seismology, volcanoes, oceanographic surveys etc. have added to our knowledge too. To decipher continuous or holistic information for the entire earth or other planets would be too premature at present for any one.
(5) Study of meteorites and outer space including lunar and mars expeditions have added to our knowledge about our own planet earth.

Still we cannot answer what is earth?
when we say it’s a unique planet to support life forms, we may be entirely wrong, may be life forms conducive to the environments of other planets exist but, our biological and physical sensors are unable to record their presence? We cannot say it for certainty.
Are we the most intelligent people in the universe or the solar system or the other solar system?
see our knowledge base is expanding, and we have more questions than answers today.

Simply saying earth is made up of rocks and soil and has biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere etc. is making things very simple for a school child to start learning what is earth? Even saying that earth is made up of biotic and abiotic mass is a too simple answer to what is earth? This simple answer is only meant to be a stepping stone to go ahead and gain knowledge to seek answers to fundamental questions like what is matter? what is earth?

Now if you are asking a school class room answer then it’s just a unique planet supporting life forms, is made up of rocks and soils, and is a part of our solar system and so on.
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Answer 5

a place where you stay and life. go to encyclopedia for more detail

Answer 6

dirt, soil, that kind of thing, the green and yellow wire on my plug(UK)