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When the Earth was formed it was molten. The forces of gravity would make it shape itself into a sphere. This shape would be "frozen" in place as the Earth cooled and solidified.
What if anything would happen to the shape of the earth if it were to rotate on its axis faster than it does todayWell ladies and gentlemen
It IS a perfect shape. Define your terms better.
They would be considered as 'spherical' celestial bodies. round
Earth is not round! It's shape is an ellipsoid (a squashed sphere), if the rotation increases then the ellipsoid will be flatter.
They might have thought the earth is a square shape when it is a round shape!I hope that answers your question!
It's a slightly flattened (at the poles) spheroid, the last time we checked. When astronomical bodies get large enough, they 'collapse', or shape themselves under the force of their own gravity. Thought experiment: imagine an object made of the same materials as earth and just as large, but it is a rod 100 km in diameter. What do you suppose would happen?
the shape of the earth is not flat. it has a spherical shape. its slightly flattened at the poles to give a nearly spherical shape hence; the earth's shape is better described as a geoid which means the earth's shape
Excellent question! It was made round by the force of its own gravity. There is so much material in the body of the earth that it tends to collapse toward the shape of a sphere. Imagine all of earth's mass formed into the shape of a rod 500 miles in diameter. As soon as it is formed, the ends of the rod would collapse, and the center of the rod, bearing the incredible weight of both ends, would collapse and explode outward. Gravity would settle the jumble of material into a sphere or sphere-like shape.
The Earth is round you know. Spreading at one place inevitably means collision at another.
ha ha well nothing would happen because there was no life on earth.
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