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Plate Tectonics
Astronomical Influences
Planetary Chemistry
Earth/MoonSystem
Past andFuture
Earth has elements heavier than lead. This is supporting
evidence for this to have happened before the formation of our
solar system.
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What is a Supernova?
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http://www.carspace.com/.5bd9a683/cmd.233/embedded..5c46da6b
Comets are from this region of our solar
system.
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What is the Oort Cloud?
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http://astro.berkeley.edu/~conor/ay250/pluto.html
Asteroids are primarily from this region in our solar
system.
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What is the Asteroid Belt?
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http://www.semp.us/_images/biots/Biot443PhotoA.jpg
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The hypothesis that Earth-like planets are
rare because they must be found in this
zone in the Galaxy and position in their solar
system.
What is the Habitable Zone?
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http://www.star.le.ac.uk/edu/Extrasolar.shtml
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The Earth’s Eccentricity (elliptical orbit), obliquity (tilt)
and precession (wobble) can be
correlated to the ice ages and warming periods between
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What are the Milankovitch Cycles?
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The Himalayas are an example of this type
of plate boundary
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What is convergent plate boundary?
http://courses.unt.edu/hwilliams/GEOG_3350/examreviews/exam1images/Fg17_23c.jpg
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The spreading on the Atlantic sea floor is a
type of this.
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What is a diverging plate boundary?
http://www.whoi.edu/cms/images/lstokey/2005/1/v42n2-mativey3en_5727.jpg
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These boundaries grind sideways
against each other.
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What is a transform boundary?
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/modules/mid66/Image/VLObject-3571-060216020229.jpg
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The Super-continent that formed ~250 MYA
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What is Pangaea?
Scotese, C.R., 2002, http://www.scotese.com, (PALEOMAP website)
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In the theory of plate tectonics, the plates
are part of this, riding on the viscous asthenosphere.
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What is the lithosphere?
http://www.suu.edu/faculty/colberg/Hazards/PlateTectonics/PlateBoundaries.jpg
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This molecule.
http://www.globalwarmingart.com/images/b/b1/Water_Molecule_VdW.png
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What is Water?
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This molecule.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Carbon-dioxide-3D-vdW.svg
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What is carbon dioxide?
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The three oxygen molecule that is formed by and
absorbs ultra-violet radiation.
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What is Ozone?
http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/Ozone_Molecule_VdW.png
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The most important greenhouse gas.
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What is water vapor?
http://udl.concord.org/activities/CloudActivity/images/cloud-in-air-wiki.jpg
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This is what greenhouse gases
absorb.
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What is infra-red radiation?
http://www.cyberphysics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/topics/radioact/Radio/EMSpectrumcolor.jpg
Heat
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The hypothesis that the Earth was struck
by a Mars-sized object and resulted in this.
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What is the moon’s origin?
http://jeffreykishner.com/images/full_moon_large.jpg
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Rock formed when it is melted and then
cooled.
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What is Igneous Rock?
http://windward.hawaii.edu/facstaff/mccoy-f/lava2sm.jpg
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Rock formed by heat and pressure.
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What is metamorphic rock?
http://www.tuttomosaico.com/2005/images/TS-MARBLE-ALL1.jpg
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Rock formed from particles of weathered
rock, cemented together with
minerals. Most fossils are found in this type
of rock.
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What is sedimentary rock?
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/age-dinosaur-bones-2.jpg
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This convergent boundary is how Mt.
St. Helens was formed (because of these two
types of plates).
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What is the result of continental and oceanic plates
meeting?
http://www.alancolville.com/plates/cascades.jpg
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This protects us from solar winds.
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What is the magnetosphere?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic
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How the sun has changed through time.
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What is getting bigger and hotter?
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/~slantz/SPUR/SPUR97/sun_pictures/
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This is the origin of our magnetic fields.
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What is the metal liquid outer core?
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/Y2003/images/magneticfield/world-pr.gif
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The estimated age of life based on chemical
evidence.
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What is 3.8 GYA (billion years old)?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060721090947.htm
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This had to form before life could survive on land.
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What is the Ozone layer?
http://garybrandastrology.com/images/Earth%20-%202005%20hole%20in%20ozone%20layer.gif
Mass Extinctions
Final
The greatest extinction event in the
history of our Earth, estimated to have
killed about 99% of all life.
Final
What is the Permo-Triassic Extinction?
http://evolution-textbook.org/content/free/figures/10_EVOW_Art/37_EVOW_CH10.jpg
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