• Question: how was the erth made !!!!

    Asked by rfaulkner to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 11 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: James Holloway

      James Holloway answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      When the sun was young it had a disk of dust spinning around it.

      The dust rubbed against itself making it charged up with static electricity (like when you rub your head on a balloon). The charged dust clumped together, eventually making lots of big rocks.

      These big rocks were so big that they fell together because of gravity. A long time later enough big rocks had fallen together to form the planets, and earth was one of these!

    • Photo: Niall Crawford

      Niall Crawford answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      Exactly what James has said, although the Earth from when it was first formed was a much different place than what it is now. Lots of change in the geology, the atmosphere and the biology has happened since then.

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