UNIQUE OF THE EARTH Flashcards
who quoted “Scientists have found thousands of other worlds, but they’re not like Earth”.
Meghan Bartels, Clara Moskowitz published December 18, 2021
who categorized the 6 unique characteristics of earth
Meghan Bartels, Clara Moskowitz published December 18, 2021
what are the 6 unique characteristics which make earth unique by Meghan Bartels, Clara Moskowitz published December 18, 2021
✓SIZE AND LOCATION
✓FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS
✓A WATERY WORLD
✓PLATE TECTONICS
✓HABITABILITY AND BEAUTY
✓DIFFERENT WORLDS
it is the third planet from the sun
earth
orbiting at an average of _______
miles (149,597,870 kilometers) away
92,955,807
miles
what unique characteristic of earth is this
third planet from the sun
* orbiting at an average of 92,955,807
miles (149,597,870 kilometers) away
* The pairing of planet and star also
allows Earth to retain liquid water
on its surface.
SIZE AND LOCATION
it stabilizes our planet’s
rotation
earth’s moon
preventing drastic movements of the
poles that would cause massive changes
in climate
FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS
is also a key player
Jupiter
also shapes conditions on the
surface by creating the ocean’s tides.
The moon
acts as a sort of celestial vacuum
cleaning up the debris that clutters the
solar system — rocks as small as cars
and as huge as moons that would
dramatically change Earth’s surface if
they impacted.
Jupiter
most strikingly unique feature of Earth
is its vast oceans
A WATERY WORLD
water covers about how many percent of earth?
70%
only world in our solar system with
liquid water at its surface today
earth
what unique characteristic of earth is this?
most strikingly unique feature of Earth
is its vast oceans
* cover 70% of the planet’s surface
* only world in our solar system with
liquid water at its surface today
A WATERY WORLD
slip-sliding movements of Earth’s crust
that are thought to have shaped the
planet’s towering mountain ranges and
plummeting ocean depths
plate tectonics
what unique characteristic of earth is this?
system of plate tectonics
* the slip-sliding movements of Earth’s crust
that are thought to have shaped the
planet’s towering mountain ranges and
plummeting ocean depths
* Meanwhile, plate tectonics keep the
planet’s temperature regulated, remaining
in temperature ranges at which liquid water
can endure.
plate tectonics
keep the
planet’s temperature regulated, remaining
in temperature ranges at which liquid water
can endure.
plate tectonics
- only world known to host living beings
Examining how that life is possible isn’t
just glorying in our luck to share the
planet with everything from amoebas to
elephants and from oaks to zebrafish.
Host For Living Organisms
hosts intelligent life — and life
capable of studying the galaxy around us
— makes it doubly unique.
Earth
an astrophysicist and planet
hunter now at Yale University, told
Space.com in 2008 that he believes
these achievements too should be
credited to our planet.
Gregory
Laughlin,
That Earth hosts intelligent life — and life
capable of studying the galaxy around us
— makes it doubly unique.
HABITABILITY AND BEAUTY
it is When the Earth during a
revolution is far from the Sun
Aphelion
