Earth Formation Flashcards
1
Q
What released the particles later used for the Formation of the Earth?
A
A supernova.
2
Q
What is Theia?
A
A planet that is hypothesized to have crashed into the Earth in the early Solar System.
3
Q
What did the Earth’s and Theia’s collision do?
A
Scientists believe that the crash let loose tons of debris, and some of it came to form the moon.
4
Q
How did the Earth form?
A
Gravity slowly gathered dust and gas into clumps and these clumps increasingly got larger and collided until they became planetesmials.
