What is the thickest interior layer of Earth? The thinnest?
Question 2
2.
What are Earth’s core and mantle made of? Explain how we know.
Question 3
3.
Describe the differences among primitive, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock, and relate these differences to their origins.
Question 4
4.
Explain briefly how the following phenomena happen on Earth, relating your answers to the theory of plate tectonics
earthquakes
Question 5
5.
Explain briefly how the following phenomena happen on Earth, relating your answers to the theory of plate tectonics
continental drift
Question 6
6.
Explain briefly how the following phenomena happen on Earth, relating your answers to the theory of plate tectonics
mountain building
Question 7
7.
Explain briefly how the following phenomena happen on Earth, relating your answers to the theory of plate tectonics
volcanic eruptions
Question 8
8.
Explain briefly how the following phenomena happen on Earth, relating your answers to the theory of plate tectonics
creation of the Hawaiian island chain
Question 9
9.
What is the source of Earth’s magnetic field?
Question 10
10.
Why is the shape of the magnetosphere not spherical like the shape of Earth?
Question 11
11.
Although he did not present a mechanism, what were the key points of Alfred Wegener’s proposal for the concept of continental drift?
Question 12
12.
List the possible interactions between Earth’s crustal plates that can occur at their boundaries.
Question 13
13.
List, in order of decreasing altitude, the principle layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
Question 14
14.
In which atmospheric layer are almost all water-based clouds formed?
Question 15
15.
What is, by far, the most abundant component of Earth’s atmosphere?
Question 16
16.
In which domain of living things do you find humankind?
Question 17
17.
Describe three ways in which the presence of life has affected the composition of Earth’s atmosphere.
Question 18
18.
Briefly describe the greenhouse effect.
Question 19
19.
How do impacts by comets and asteroids influence Earth’s geology, its atmosphere, and the evolution of life?
Question 20
20.
Why are there so many impact craters on our neighbor world, the Moon, and so few on Earth?
Question 21
21.
Detail some of the anthropogenic changes to Earth’s climate and their potential impact on life.
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