Sunlight takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth and is responsible for the ocean currents and weather patterns on our planet. The Earth orbits the Sun in an elliptical uneven orbit and the distance between them varies depending on where the Earth lies in that orbit. The Sun is only an average size for a star but still accounts for 98% of the total matter in our solar system. The solar winds produced by the Sun extends to about 50AU‚ where AU is the distance from the Earth to the Sun. The lightning in the
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from “The Relative Motion of the Earth‚ Moon‚ and Sun” Lesson Plan Instructional Sequence Introduction o Write on the board: “Relative Motion” and “Motion of the Earth‚ Moon‚ and Sun”. o Begin by telling the class that you are going to “blow a hole in what they know” and fill it with new knowledge. Explain “there are some things in science you probably think you know‚ but you don’t know everything.” Ask‚ with a show of hands‚ “Who knows how the Sun‚ Earth and Moon move?” o Ask a volunteer
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Galileo was living in the time when the Catholic Church was the dominant power and strongly supported the theory of a geocentric‚ or Earth-centered‚ universe. As influenced by the Church‚ most people in Galileo’s time believed the cosmology of antiquity‚ which was that the Earth was the center of the universe‚ and that the Sun and planets revolved around it. Galileo was one of the most important figures in the history of science and scientific method‚ his invention of telescopes has supported his
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appearances presented by the Moon as seen from Earth‚ determined by the portion of the Moon that is visibly illuminated by the Sun. The lunar phases vary cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth‚ according to the relative positions of the Earth‚ the Moon‚ and the Sun. Since the Moon appears bright only due to the Sun’s reflected light‚ only the half of the Moon facing the Sun is illuminated. The lunar phase depends on the Moon’s position in orbit around the Earth‚ and the Earth’s position in orbit around
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is it affecting the Earth and its inhabitants? Global Warming is sometimes referred to as the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the absorption of energy radiated from the Earth ’s surface by carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere‚ causing the atmosphere to become warmer. The greenhouse effect is what is causing the temperature on the Earth to rise‚ and creating many problems that will begin to occur in the coming decades. For the last 10‚000 years‚ the Earth ’s climate has been
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The planets orbiting Gliese 581 were named in the order they were discovered and are named Gliese e‚ Gliese b‚ Gliese c‚ Gliese g‚ and Gliese d. The mass of Gliese 581e is 1.9 times the mass of Earth‚ Gliese 581b has a mass 15.8 times the mass of the Earth‚ Gliese 581c has a mass 5.5 times the mass of the Earth‚ Gliese 581g has a mass 3.4 times the mass
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to burn anyone who tried to take possession of the chariot. He would drive it across the earth every day. If he got too close to the earth he would burn the people’s houses. Also if he got to close to the sky the earth would get very cold. One time Helios’s son wanted to try to drive the chariot of the sun. His name was Phaethon. Phaethon drove the chariot and got too close to the earth and set the earth on fire. Zeus used his thunderbolt
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Genesis 1:1-2:4a In the beginning‚ when God created the heavens and the earth 2 and the earth was without form or shape‚ with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters 3 Then God said: Let there be light‚ and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good. God then separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day‚” and the darkness he called “night.” Evening came‚ and morning followed—the first day. 6 Then God said: Let there be a dome in the middle
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Pangea supercontinent from space‚ as it may have looked 300 million years ago. The Earth is a little over 4.5 billion years old‚ its oldest materials being 4.3 billion-year-old zircon crystals. Its earliest times were geologically violent‚ and it suffered constant bombardment from meteorites. When this ended‚ the Earth cooled and its surface solidified to a crust - the first solid rocks. There were no continents as yet‚ just a global ocean peppered with small islands. Erosion‚ sedimentation and
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interior. We all know that the Earth is mainly divided into three parts: the crust‚ mantle‚ and core. The mantle is further subdivided into upper mantle‚ asthenosphere and the lower mantle based on seismic activity. We also know that the outer core is a rotating fluid while the inner core is a solid part. The movie was able to describe and explain these things accurately. It is also true that scientists have only drilled the crust which is the thinnest part of the Earth for about 10 km and no one has
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