--- title: The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The Earth is a ball, very slightly flattened at the top and bottom; it looks flat to us only because it is so big --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / The shape and size of the Earth, the p… # The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator Lesson 7 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/0/) — The Earth is a ball, very slightly flattened at the top and bottom; it looks flat to us only because it is so big and we see a tiny part of it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/1/) — The two ends of the Earth's axis are the North Pole and the South Pole, and the equator is an imaginary line around the middle, halfway between them. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/2/) — The equator splits the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres; the equator is about 40 thousand kilometres long, so a car driving day and night at 100 kilometres an hour would need more than 16 days to go around. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/3/) — People knew the Earth was round more than two thousand years ago: ships sink hull first (the hull is the bottom part of a ship) below the horizon, the far line where the sky meets the sea, and the Earth's shadow on the Moon during an eclipse is always round. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/4/) — Today photographs from space show the round Earth, and people have sailed and flown all the way around it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/5/) — The Earth is shaped like a ball, very slightly flattened at the poles. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/6/) — The distance around the Earth at the equator is about 40 thousand kilometres. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/7/) — The Earth is about 12 thousand 700 kilometres wide. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/8/) — The North Pole and the South Pole are the two ends of the Earth's axis. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/9/) — The equator is an imaginary line around the Earth, halfway between the poles. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/10/) — The equator divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/11/) — Places near the equator are hot, and places near the poles are cold. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/12/) — About seven tenths of the Earth's surface is covered by water. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/13/) — The North Pole is in the middle of a frozen ocean, and the South Pole is on the icy land of Antarctica. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/14/) — A ship sailing away disappears from the bottom up because the Earth's surface curves. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/15/) — The Earth's shadow on the Moon is always round, which shows the Earth is a ball. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/7-shape-and-size-of-the-earth/16/) — A globe is a small model of the Earth. - ← previous: [Gravity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/) - next →: [Eclipses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/8-eclipses/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)