Talk:Earth
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I don't agree that the Moon causing the tide belongs in Moon rather than Earth.
Most ecologists would say that there is an Earth-Moon ecological system, and that tides, and to a much lesser degree phases (which affect the light received at night, which in turn affects animal hunting patterns and etc.), are critically important in Earth ecology, and played a huge role in the evolution of life on Earth, e.g. in intertidal zones.
Earth is, more than anything else, an entity studied by ecology. Ecology divides it up into ecoregions, for instance. Ecology views it as a single homeorhetic (almost homestatic - but not quite) system. This is the most comple and useful view of the planet. Therefore it is the one we should deal with here, not just the geological perspective.
cophew : this page is indeed unsimple. the first bit is ok but the second bit is not simple enough. it could do with more interwiki-links.
