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| The study of prehistoric life |
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| The creation of life from non life |
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| Organisms that can exist in extreme conditions |
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| The first eon of earth history |
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| The second eon in earth history |
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| The third eon in earth history |
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| The court and current eon in earth history |
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| The hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic eons |
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| Adequately far zone from star where water can exist in liquid form . |
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| The warming of earth’s atmosphere due to greenhouse gas |
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| Celebrate benefits of veganism for humans and the natural environment are celebrated through activities such as setting up stalls, hosting potlucks, and planting memorial trees. |
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| The mass removal of parts of a forest. |
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| lt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetic field. |
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| any dangerous meteorological phenomenon |
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| In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 goals for a better world by 2030. |
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| A class where we focus on the relationship between space and the earth. |
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| The term for the way the moon was formed. |
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| Comparative Planetology [image][image] |
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| The study of the similarities and differences between planets and other celestial bodies. |
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| Inner rocky planets[image] |
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| Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars |
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| Outer Jovian planets[image] |
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| Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
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| Source of Earth’s heat[image] |
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| Was created from the kinetic energy from the Theia impact |
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| Gas and ice giants[image] |
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| Rocky or terrestrial planets[image] |
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| The Lonely Planet Paradox[image] |
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| The idea that he building blocks of life have been seen almost everywhere, yet Earth is the only place where life has been seen. |
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| Three rules of relative dating [image] |
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| Law of superposition, principle of original horizontality, principle of cross-cutting relationships |
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| Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic [image] |
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| The eras of the Phanerozoic eon |
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| The individual parts of earth’s system |
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| Idea that all energy on Earth comes from the earth and will return to it, there cannot be energy created or lost. |
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| the capacity to do work, it is cycled through the earth system |
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| animal agriculture[image] |
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| industrialized livestock production |
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| factors that effect the weather[image] |
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| Relative Humidity, air pressure , and Humidity |
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| Main types of clouds[image] |
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| cirrus, cumulus, and stratus |
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| the idea that earth has been affected with short lived, violent events worldwide. |
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| The idea that earth has slowly been changed over time |
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| Uniformitarianism [image] |
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| the idea that the same natural laws have existed throughout earths history |
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| A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air |
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| The conditions of the atmosphere at any place and time |
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| Areas along the coast have wetter climates |
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| The weather conditions over a long period of time |
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| An effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force (the Coriolis force ) acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation. |
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