why is the world round?

Answer 1

Chris you sound like a pretty cool guy--The coolest questions I have read. Keep up the good work.

I think the reason that the earth is round is because it is rotating in space and all the flat spots and corners came off. Real estate that Donald Trumph could really develope. You say, "what am I talking about" God really wanted this planet--called Earth to be special. God made Earth square and then broke the mold. So, none of the other planets would be like this one.

Chris, please keep asking questions--that is how ya learn.

Answer 2

A long time ago, there was a man who loved basketball. He loved basketball so much that he decided to make a new shiny basketball which was enormous. After a while he got bored of playing with the big basketball and he started drawing pictures of people, animals, cars, trucks and everything else. Soon the pictures came to life and communities, countries and towns were made. Then people called the big basketball the world and that is why the world is round.

Answer 3

The answer is gravity. The Earth is thought to have formed four-and-a-half billion years ago, from a huge, rotating cloud of gas. In the newly born Earth, gravity pulls from the center. Parts at the same distance from the center are pulled with the same force, and ends up with a spherical shape.
A round shape holds the most matter. And planets and stars are made from lots and lots of that. Even though they are huge, planets and stars work to be as small as they can because of gravity. Gravity, the force that pulls matter together, pulls you and the Earth toward each other. It also pulls together all the different matter that the Earth is made from and makes the planet as small as it can be. And that shape is round.

Answer 4

Because its weak.

Though gravity is the weakest force in the universe, for very large masses such as planets the force it actually gives rise to is very large (all that mass). And matter is simply not strong enough to withstand it - so it get pulled into a uniform shape in all directions - that is, a sphere.

And the tosh about oblate spheroids - its actually more spherical than a pool ball.

Answer 5

when the gas clouds condensed to form earth, gravity forced the shape to a sphere and as molten earth cooled further, the shape is retained with a slight distortion. It is not perfectly round but rather pear shaped. It is bulged at the equator and flattened at the poles.

Answer 6

Because the sun created the earth and the sun is round so now the earth is round.

Answer 7

Earth maintained it's near spherical shape because it is massive enough so that it's gravity has the capability to keep it so. It was formed 4.5 billion years ago from a cloud of interstellar dust that was hit by an exploding supernova. Dust particles clumped together, forming the main planets and asteriods, so on.

Answer 8

Who told you so? The Bible mentions "four corners." Round things have no corners. What do they teach you in school?!
If you do not believe me, go to the End of the Earth and if we do not hear from you, it means you fell off, but proved the Bible right.

Answer 9

Its own gravity forces it to be round; the gravitational force exceeds the strength of the rock under the crust (much of which is molten, so has no strength anyway).

Answer 10

If world is not round it can balance the activities sphere have gravity its center. well i do not have idea