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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.

C5 $400

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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