Science test last minute :( Flashcards

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Describe the order of how our planet formed into a suitable environment

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Earth, Moon, Oldest Rock, Oldest Life, Great oxygenation, Pangea, Genus Homo.

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How was the earth formed?

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Formation. When the solar system settled into its current layout about 4.5 billion years ago, Earth formed when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become the third planet from the Sun. Like its fellow terrestrial planets, Earth has a central core, a rocky mantle, and a solid crust.

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What was earth life when it first formed?

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At its beginning, Earth was unrecognizable from its modern form. At first, it was extremely hot, to the point that the planet likely consisted almost entirely of molten magma. Over the course of a few hundred million years, the planet began to cool and oceans of liquid water formed.

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what do plants need to conduct photosynthesis?

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what do plants need to conduct photosynthesis?

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How do scientist think water got to earth?

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Trough meteors that crashed bringing ice and that there was already water on earth and that it was in the form of steam

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