Question

No matter where you are on Earth, the center of the Earth is always _______.

A) to the left
B) to the south
C) straight ahead
D) straight down

Answer 1

D) straight down

Step-by-step explanation:

The Earth is (mostly) spherically shaped. Thus, the center of the Earth is right in the middle, inside of it.

If you think about it, we stand on the Earth's surface, or "outside of it", if you will. Therefore, we cannot reach the inside by going to the left, south, or ahead, as these directions only change your position on the horizontal plane. In other words, they don't really change your height relative to the center.

So, the correct answer is straight down, which makes sense since anything inside the Earth would be below us; this would require us to go down to reach it.

Hope this helps!