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It's rotation. Earth would naturally have achieved hydrostatic balance (perfect sphere) as it cooled. Eons of spinning on it's axis has slightly flattened the poles, giving earth a very slight "oblate" shape as opposed to a perfect sphere.
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What is a true representation of the shape of the earth?
Earth's shape is described as an "oblate spheroid", in other words, a very slightly flattened sphere.
What is the shape of planet earth is it a hemisphere a hemicube a circle or a sphere?
The shape the Earth is a slightly oblate spheroid.
Why does the earth change its shape?
what is the internal and enternal changing in the earth
Is it true or false that the elliptical shape of the earths orbit change all the time?
It is true. Earth moving around the Sun, WITHOUT any other objects in the Universe, and WITHOUT considering General Relativity, would be an unchanging ellipse. However:* As a result of the warping of space-time (General Relativity), the periapsis will change over time. That is, the ellipse, while maintaining its shape, will change its position in space. * Other objects, mainly in the Solar System, pull on the Sun and on the Earth. This will actually change the shape of the orbit over time. The effect, in both cases, is very small, at least in the short term.
Why does the shape of the moon change?
the shape of the moon is caused by the movement of the earth. Earth's shadow causes the shapes. As the earth moves, so does its shadow, creating different shapes (phases).
What is the true shape of earth?
The true shape of the earth is oblate spheriod. This means that the Earth is slightly flattened at the poles and slightly bulging at the Equator.
The shape of a sign gives you a clue about the information contained on the sign?
true
What is a true representation of the shape of the earth?
Earth's shape is described as an "oblate spheroid", in other words, a very slightly flattened sphere.
Is the hot metal at the center of earth in the shape of a cylinder?
is is true
1 The shape of a sign gives you a clue about the information contained on the sign A True B False?
A. True
The very hot metal at the center of earth is in the shape of a cylinder?
is is true
How close to a perfect sphere is Earth's true shape?
It is pretty close.
Walk you cannot but run you can the earth gives you shape though formless you are?
water
The true size and shape of the Earth?
The shape of the earth is considered to be an oblate spheroid or ellipsoid and not actually a true sphere. The size of earthâ??s surface is 361.132 million square kilometers which is equivalent to 139.43 million square miles.
What is the only way to accuratley represent the true shape of the earth?
a physical map
What is true of the processes that shape the Earth?
Many of the processes that changed the Earth in the past are the same processes that operate in the present.
Is the Lilliputians believed that the earth was round a true statement?
No, the statement that the Lilliputians believed the Earth was round is not true. In Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," the Lilliputians are fictional characters who are not portrayed as having a specific belief about the shape of the Earth.
