VERB + EARTH
- orbit
- satellites orbiting the earth
EARTH + VERB
- orbit sth, revolve, rotate
- The earth orbits the sun. The earth revolves on its axis
EARTH + NOUN
- tremor
- Furniture fell over as the room was shaken by an earth tremor
- sciences
PREP
- above the ~
- We are flying at 30,000 feet above the earth
- around/round the ~
- the moon's orbit around the earth
- on (the) ~
- The island was there before there was life on earth
- to ~
- The astronauts were able to send the information back to earth
PHRASES
- the centre/surface of the earth, the earth's core/crust/mantle/ surface, (the) planet earth
ADJ
- bare
- The fields had been ploughed, and there was nothing but bare earth to be seen
- fertile
- barren, infertile
- soft
- solid
- damp, moist, wet
- fresh, freshly-dug
- loose
- I filled the pot with a handful of loose earth
- baked
- The sun beat down on the baked earth
- scorched
- The wreckage of the plane was scattered across the scorched earth
- chalky, sandy
QUANT
- clod, clump, lump
- My boots were caked in big clods of wet earth
EARTH + NOUN
- bank, mound
- I scrambled to the top of the steep earth bank
PREP
- in the ~
- The plants must have their roots in the earth
- under the ~
- in mines deep under the earth