that is known to man is our solar system. It is made up of nine planets. The nine major planets in our solar system are Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth‚ Mars‚ Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ Neptune and Pluto. There are also many other minor planets‚ which are also in our solar system‚ but they are unimportant compared to the nine major planets. Mercury‚ which is the planet that is closest to the sun‚ is the first and smallest of the inner planets. It is speculated that the heat from the sun made it impossible
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A Comparison of the Planets in the Sol System Shaun J. Sci350 December 19‚ 2004 Introduction Beginning Mercury‚ this paper will compare the nine planets and major moons of our solar system and describe their individual characteristics. At the end of this discussion‚ the habitability factor of these different worlds will be discussed as compared to that of the Earth ’s. A Brief History of the Sol System By radiocarbon dating meteorites‚ we know that roughly 4.6 billion
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Earth Day Earth Day is an annual holiday‚ celebrated on April 22‚ on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. In 2013 the day is 43 years old. It is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network‚[1] and is celebrated in more than 192 countries every year.[2] In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco‚ the date proposed was March 21‚ 1970‚ the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in
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Earth hour Title: Earth hour- Sixty minutes of darkness to highlight climate change. Publication:24 hrs. Toronto Date: Friday‚ March 22‚ 2013. Earth hour Earth Hour is a worldwide event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature(WWF) It is held towards the end of March annually‚ encouraging households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour. In order to raise awareness about the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour The event‚ conceived by WWF and
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Earth Day is an annual event‚ celebrated on April 22‚ on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970‚ and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year. In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco‚ peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace‚ to first be celebrated on March 21‚ 1970‚ the first day of spring in the
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environment has being eg; Polluted with the mount of rubbish we have dumped in our ocean which cause water pollution. Deforestation has being a worst nightmare for the animals that live in that habitat. Recycling‚ is a good thing to help save the earth‚ from reducing; paper‚ bottles‚cardboard etc‚ without damaging it from polluting and cutting down trees. Pollution has been a very big concern in our environment. This has been caused by people who are always throwing trash anywhere‚ making the
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Earth Day Founded in 1970 as a day of education about environmental issues‚ Earth Day is now a globally celebrated holiday that is sometimes extended into Earth Week‚ a full seven days of events focused on green awareness. The brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson and inspired by the antiwar protests of the late 1960s‚ Earth Day was originally aimed at creating a mass environmental movement. It began as a "national teach-in on the environment" and was held on April 22 to maximize the number of
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EARTH DAY SKIT: “How Earth Day Began” This skit can be performed at an Earth Day assembly for an entire school or a single class Scene 1: At Home________________________________________________ A student returns home from school. While eating dinner‚ she discusses her day with her parents. The end of April is approaching and her school [insert your school name] is preparing for its Earth Week festivities. Teachers and students have been talking about the week’s event and she can’t wait – excitement
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Definition Earth Hour is an annual event where millions of people and thousands of business worldwide turn off lights and shut down most electrical appliances to celebrate sustainability and show their support for strategies that will help solve the problem of global warming. The First Earth Hour * Earth Hour was inspired by a demonstration in Sydney‚ Australia on March 31‚ 2007‚ when more than 2.2 million Sydney residents and more than 2‚100 businesses switched off lights and non-essential
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events in each era. Did more Earth-shaping events occur early in Earth’s history or later on? Explain why. Based on my geologic time scale‚ there are three events in Precambrian Time‚ two events in Paleozoic Era‚ four events in Mesozoic Era and one event in Cenozoic Era. These events mostly occurred later on in Earth’s history. Mesozoic Era has the most events which are four out of ten events on the list‚ mean that Earth-shaping events happened more recently. Earth-shaping events occur later on
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