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is the earth a hot or a cold planet?

my son is doing a school project on the Solar system and wants to know is Earth a hot or a cold planet. Can anyone help, thanx

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    10 years ago
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    It is in the goldilocks zone from our star, which is habitable and any zone where the majority of water is not gas or solid, so life can be sustainable. It is warm in the temperate zones on the surface of the planet in between the artic circles and the tropics it is hot below our crust and it is cold above the troposphere.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Cold Planet

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    while human beings communicate with regard to the international common temperature, you're able to assume the planet is cooling, yet, you would be incorrect. some areas of the globe look plenty warmer than universal, whilst different seem plenty less warm. climate itself isn't so straightforward because it could look. heat water currents make areas of the globe warmer than they in any different case could be, and heat air currents do the an analogous. as a results of fact the polar areas of the globe are warming, ice (interior the form of glaciers) is breaking off and shifting removed from the poles. as a results of fact the glaciers bump into warmer water and air, they soften at an speeded up cost. The flow of the glacier itself reasons and underwater chilly water present day. chilly water currents additionally cool the air that circulates over them, and the chilly air plenty mixing with the hotter air plenty generate hurricane fronts. The better the differential between the warmth and funky air plenty, the extra suitable the frontal device. The severe wintry climate storms interior the northern hemisphere and their corresponding chilly air plenty better than offset the warmth climate activities interior the southern hemisphere, so the international temperature archives is skewed downwards, yet utilising the international common temperature as a foundation to assist a end fails to evaluate the complexity of the subject concerns in touch.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Primarily hot... 99% of the Earth's bulk is composed of hot liquid iron and rock.

    Source(s): cosmology
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  • 10 years ago

    Since the average temperature of space is about minus two hundred and seventy degrees celsius, then the surface of the Earth is very hot indeed.

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  • 10 years ago

    Boiling deep in the core, cool on the outside.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    The answer is relaitve to your referance frame. To someone from titan its burining hot. To someone from venus its freezing.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    It's just about right.

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