Moon Today: The Evolution Of The Earth

Moon today. The Earth keeps the Moon in orbit by its gravitational pull it sets onto it. The Moon is constantly spinning farther away from the Earth at a rate of approximately 3.78 centimeters per year. When the moon was closer to the planet, days were only five hours long, now, since the moon is slowly spinning away, the days get longer, meaning that the days are now 24 hours and will continue to slow down. Without the Moon, the Earth’s rotation could slow down, causing the planet to wobble slightly and have a disturbing effect on our seasons. This occurrence would take billions of years and might not occur at all. (1 February 2011, BBC News, why the moon is getting further away from the Earth)
Over millions of years, the Earth slowly continued to change. The Sun had risen over the Earth, making the Earth spin faster until the days were only six hours long. Debris continued to crash down onto the developing Earth. Suddenly, 3.9 billion years
Darwin believed that evolution was the development of living organisms by natural selection. On a trip to the Galapagos Islands, many naturalists believed that species were created over a long period of time. Charles Darwin had a different approach to this belief. He made the discovery that animals changed and evolved to adapt to their environments. (Adrian J Desmond, Charles Darwin, www.britanica.com) Charles Darwin shared his idea of evolution by publishing his first book named ‘’On the Origin of Species’’. His book was published in 1859 and had a great success. (Natural selection, www.bbc.co.uk) He believed that every living thing is related to one another. This was called Darwinism. Natural selection is the process in which many living organisms change their appearance, size and behavioral traits to better adapt to their environment. This theory that Charles Darwin created is also called