2007-03-12 23:30:26 · 26 answers · asked by eldoxy26 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
so it is always the same distance from the sun, it is not perfectly round although appears so from a greater distance
2007-03-12 23:32:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The question is too broad. Try being more specific. Lets start with whether you believe in the big bang in evolution or creation by God.
Round because its necessary for every one on earth and its contents need an equal pull by gravity, not to little and not too much. Gravity is being pulled to the center. The land and seas are aprox equally distributed in distance from this center pull and thats why the earth is round.
2007-03-13 06:37:55 · answer #2 · answered by CogantaRigh 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because, The Sun ,The Moon,The Mercury,The Venus, The Mars,The Jupiter, all the members of The Asteroid belt, The Saturn, The Uranus The Neptune,The Pluto including all the other stars , the dwarfs and all the planets and all their satelites are round...
2007-03-13 09:14:05 · answer #3 · answered by Tanmay M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
During the creation of planets,the gas nebula spins round and round thus forming a ball shaped structure a planet.
2007-03-13 06:37:15 · answer #4 · answered by Gilly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Planets form by dust particles and pieces of rock in a cloud of dust and gas (a nebula) being pulled together by gravity. Gravity pulls them in from the centre of the mass so they are pulled towards the growing lump from every angle, resulting in a roughly spherical shape forming. This is how Earth formed.
2007-03-13 06:41:31 · answer #5 · answered by Andrea C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity
a sphere has the smallest volume for a given mass.
If there were no external forces (tidal forces, weather, continental drift, etc, etc) Gravity would cause the earth would be a near perfect sphere, with a bulge towards the equator caused by the earth spinning (centrifugal effect)
2007-03-13 06:36:49 · answer #6 · answered by SeabourneFerriesLtd 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Earth is not in a perfect round shape as zero. bit flat on both polar regions, some thing like shape of an apple.
2007-03-13 06:35:43 · answer #7 · answered by manjunath_empeetech 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The world is round?
2007-03-13 06:39:35 · answer #8 · answered by Jeff W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
... It's not completely round.
The poles are flattened out a bit, because of the whole spinning deal etc... (don't feel the need to elaborate today, takes up too much space)
(Tanmay, not *all* celestial bodies are round, some are just too small to obtain a - as astronomers say - hydrostatic equilibrium)
(Cufty; New Zealand would beat Aussie to it... *if* that would ever happen... )
2007-03-13 12:06:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because of gravity. Any liquid object (as he earth was when it first formed) which is big enough will be round because its own gravity is holding it together.
2007-03-13 06:33:27 · answer #10 · answered by mark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not round but elliptical being slightly larger in circumference around the equator.
2007-03-14 15:11:27 · answer #11 · answered by Toby J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋