• Question: How was there water and land on earth before humans got here?

    Asked by Lucyyyy to Deborah, Euan, Maheen, Rob, Stu on 13 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 13 Jun 2016:


      The earth formed billions of years before there were people, right back at the start of the universe. As it cooled and collected other elements, water was made, creating the oceans. It was only millions of years later that life occurred, and millions of years after that that humans evolved.

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