1. How did the term "planet" originate with the Greeks?

The greeks believed the Earth was stationary at the center of the universe while objects in the sky revolved around it. The Greek astronomers employed the term Asteres planetai meaning “wondering stars” for star like objects. By the 19th century the word planet thought it hadn’t been defined was the working term applied

Because the earth is not round ,but it may seem round when viewed from ,our planet but true some points earth is not round was an oblate spheroid -a square that it squashed as globe however is not even a perfect oblate spheroid.in fact isaac newton's first proposed that earth was not perfectly round but it was an oblate spheroid instead.that mean a square that is squashed as its poles and swollen at the