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14) Describe four ways in which earth is unique among the terrestrial worlds, and how each is important to life. - ️️Surface liquid water Atmospheric oxygen Plate tectonics Climate stabilty 3 key processes that led the solar system to form spinning disk - ️️Heating, Spinning, Flattening 4 categories of materials in the solar nebula by their condensation properties and abundance - ️️Hydrogen/Helium - 98% Hydrogen Compounds - 1.4% Rock - .4% Metals - .2% Based on figure 7.48, ...

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-- Life, orbital resonances, rings and gaps. - ️️Give three examples of current properties of the solar system that a model of its formation need not explain. Why? 11. How did the temperature structure of the solar nebula affect the planetary composition? - ️️-- The distance between a planet and the sun determines the temperatures at which each planet was created. For planets close to the Sun like Mercury and Venus, the temperature was too high for those planets to be formed with light ...

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4 components of the Earth's Interior - ️️1. Thin crust 2. Semi-solid mantle 3. Liquid outer core 4. Solid inner core 4 types of boundaries between plates - ️️1. mid-ocean ridge 2. sliding plates 3. ocean trench 4. mountains 5 components of atmosphere (closest-farthest) - ️️1. Troposphere 2. Stratosphere 3. Mesosphere 4. Thermosphere 5. Exosphere 7 Stages of the Earth's atmosphere - ️️1. Proto-atmosphere 2. Early atmosphere 3. Secondary atmosphere 4. Cooling pha...

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A major reason for the large size of the volcanoes on Mars is the probable lack of ____________ on Mars - ️️Continental drift A measurement of the density of a planet can tell its rough _________. - ️️Composition A strong magnetic field indicates that the planet has __________, _______, and ________. - ️️A large liquid core, a core rich in metals, and a high rotation rate. Accretional Heating - ️️As the planets formed through the accretion of planetesimals, they heated due to ...

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A feature of the Jovian planets is that _________. - ️️They are composed primarily of hydrogen Analemma - ️️The figure-8 path traced by the Sun over the course of a year when viewed at the same place and the same time each day. Represents discrepancies between apparent and mean solar time. Annual Trigonometric Parallax - ️️ Annular Eclipse - ️️Solar eclipse during which the Moon is directly in front of the Sun but its angular size is not large enough to fully block the Sun Ar...

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