Study Guides
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Planet Earth Help
Introduction to Planet Earth From space, our world looks like a brilliant blue marble. Sometimes called the “blue planet,” the Earth is over 70% water and is unique in our solar system. Clouds, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural characters ...
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Earth's Formation Help
Earth’s Formation In 1755, Immanuel Kant offered the idea that the solar system was formed from a rotating cloud of gas and thin dust. In the years since then this idea became known as the nebular hypothesis . The clouds that ...
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Gravity, Biosphere, Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, and Lithosphere Help
Gravity If the Earth is spinning, then what force keeps us and everything else in place? Gravity . In 1666, English scientist, Sir Isaac Newton (the guy who had an apple fall off a tree and land on his ...
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Earth's Crust Help
Introduction to the Earth's Crust The Earth’s crust is the hard, outermost covering of the Earth. This is the layer exposed to weathering like wind, rain, freezing snow, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, meteor impacts, ...
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Earth's Mantle Help
Earth's Mantle The mantle is the next layer down in the Earth’s crust. It is located just below the lithosphere. The mantle makes up 70% of the Earth’s mass. It is estimated to be about 2900km thick. The mantle is not the same all ...
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Earth's Core Help
Introduction to the Earth's Core Found beneath the mantle is the very center of the Earth. It is made up mostly of iron with a smattering of nickel and other elements. Under extreme pressure, the core makes up about 30% of the total mass of ...
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Water Cycles Study Guide
Introduction Life as we know it cannot exist without water. Though other crucial molecules are needed for living things, one might say that water is the most important molecule of all. Where is water found? How does the water cycle work?
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Earth Science and Evolution Study Guide
Introduction Earth today is the product of 4.5 billion years of changes. Life is an important player in connecting the earth's surface reservoirs of atmosphere, ocean, and soil. Here we look at questions that surround the history of the oceans, continents, and, in ...
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Humans as a Geological Force Study Guide
Introduction Unlike other species, humans deploy vast arrays of chemical processes outside their biological bodies, via factories, residences, and forms of transportation. Chemical inputs and outputs from these have created a new kind of force within the systems ...
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