Why is the earth round?

Answer 1

In the begging God* created us to live forever. But when Adam and Eve sinned it spread all trough human all the way trough ever one in the world. So God* sent his only son, Jesus to die on earth for our sins. He poured out all his blood just for you and me.

*John 3:16 for god so loved the world he gave his only begotton son. And whosoever beleavith in him will not perish but have everlasting life.***

Then 3 days later Jesus rose agian. And now he is in heaven building us a mansion.



i hope i answerd your question. If not i hope i answered some one elses question, about life.

Answer 2

It's the gravity, of course.

Imagine Earth were liquid--consisting, say, only of water. Gravity would of course pull that water towards the center, and if any could flow closer to the center, it would do so.

Therefore, if such an Earth were not a sphere--if some points were higher than the average--their water would quickly flow down. Water would also flow into any valley deeper than the average and fill it up.

The final shape MUST be a sphere. Only then does every point on the surface have the same distance from the center.

Gas planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune behave the same way, since gas flows like a fluid. The Sun is gas, too, so it must be spherical. But Earth? The Moon? Why should a planet composed of solid rock have the same shape as one composed of water?

Because, dear friend, once you descend a few hundred miles (or kilometers), rocks flow like a fluid, too. A rock 300 miles underground bears the weight of a 300-mile layer of rock, and under such pressure even solid material will gradually yield, more so because of the intense heat there. Hence the rocky Earth is close to a sphere.

Mountains may stick up 30000 feet, but not much more, otherwise the ground will slowly sink under their weight. Olympus Mons on Mars can reach 80000, but the weaker gravity of Mars makes it possible. Asteroids 100 miles across may still be potato-shaped (not enough gravity to give
the outer layers enough weight), but by the time you reach 300 miles, round is the rule.

Round ... but not always completely round. Earth bulges a little at the equator, because rotation flings matter outwards, weakening gravity there by a fraction of 1%. Jupiter spins faster than Earth--just under 10 hours--and bulges much more: telescope pictures of Jupiter show it visibly fatter at the equator. And our Moon--why do you think it always presents the same face to the Earth? Yes, it is lightly longer in that
direction, and the pull on the part sticking out towards Earth keeps it aligned that way.

Answer 3

My guess is when theirs gravity pulling objects, particles, matter straight inward from every spectrum it all heats up and forms a sphere together. Which is how I think the Moon was formed. So basically I think in space the more mass something has the grater the gravitational pull would be. Like if the earth was shot out from the sun it would have been molten and eligible to change shape do to it's gravitational pull or something. Then it would gradually cool down and harden and stay that way. Theres an idea.

Answer 4

Because a sphere is the most staple form in nature when an object is acted upon from all sides with equal pressure. All the planets, and stars are round. Liquids form mostly round drops as they fall through the air and are only slightly misshapen by the friction from air as they fall.

Answer 5

Any known body in the known universe that has gravity is a sphere. Gravity pulls from all directions not just one. The only shape that would be able to accommodate such a force would be a sphere. Stars, planets, moons... Some objects have changed their shape because of impacts and explosions, but most of them are round.

Answer 6

it is spherical, yes. but not a perfect sphere. it's to do with gravitational pull. (seeing as the earths core is made of molton iron) when all the crap left over from the explosion of creation of a star, loads of dust and stuff was sent flying all round and larger "clumps" of it began to heat up and attract other "clumps". and from then on thats how it happened lol.
if you think about it. you can answer the question with a snowball lol. (not sure where u'll get the snowball from ;)) and roll the snowball down a slope. and it kinda answers it for you in a general way lol.

Answer 7

The earth is not round it is actually square and there are some blockheads living on it right this moment.

Answer 8

If it was square you would drive off the edge of the earth.

Answer 9

when it was formed the gravity of the spinning material bought in dust and particles- rather like candy floss on a stick which then solidified-thats why all planets/stars are roundish

Answer 10

It's actually egg shaped. Constantly re-formed by volcanic eruptions and cosmic smashes, it is not a perfect circle, but as it spins it throws itself (kinda like a spinning pot on a wheel) smoothing itself day by day.