FORMATION OF EARTH Flashcards

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states that, in the beginning, the universe was all in one place

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Big Bang Theory

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is the currently accepted argument about how a Solar System can form

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Nebular Hypothesis

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  • The tremendous amount of material blown out by the explosion eventually formed the stars and galaxies.
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ORIGIN OF THE EARTH

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  • turbulent swirl collect matter measuring meters across
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THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS

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  • Small chunks grow and collide, eventually becoming large aggregates of gas and solid chunks.
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THE NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS

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  • Result of contraction and rotation, a flat rapidly rotating disk (proto sun tawag sa gitna nito)
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PROTOSTAR

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  • large gas cloud ( MASS IN THE CENTER, TURBULENCE IN OUTER PART)
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NEBULA

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  • temperature rose to one million °C, resulting in thermonuclear fusion.
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SUN

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  • The enveloping disk of gas and dust forms grains the collide and clump together into small chuncks or planetisimal
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BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

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  • Terrestrial planets build up by multiple collision and accretion of planetisimal
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BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM

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  • Gravitational forces compact solid matter to form the inner planets, while solar radiation blows away gases, primarily hydrogen and helium.
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PROTOPLANETS

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  • Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
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GAS GIANTS

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l - Pluto, Sedna, and objects in the Kuiper Belt

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ICE OR FROZEN GAS

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  • Nakapaikot sa protostar
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PLANETISIMAL

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  • MERCURY TO MARS
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INNER PLANETS

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  • JUPITER TO PLUTO
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OUTER

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AGE OF THE EARTH -

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4,570,000,000 years old

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  • One of these collisions formed the Moon
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BOMBARDMENT FROM SPACE

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  • Giant Impact Hypothesis, 50 million years, Mars-sized planet, collision, Earth formation, proposed 30 years ago, modern high-speed computers, feasibility.
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FORMATION OF THE MOON

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Three major factors that caused heating and melting in the early Earth’s interior:

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Collisions, Compression, and Radioactivity of elements

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  • 100 million years after initial accretion
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THE CORE

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: Formed from solidified magma that floated up from the Mantle

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CONTINENTS

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  • the Earth is thought to have had a thin atmosphere composed primarily of helium (He) and hydrogen (H) gases
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THE EVOLVING ATMOSPHERE

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  • It is hypothesized that water vapor escaping from the interior of the Earth via countless volcanic eruptions created the
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CREATING THE OCEAN