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Title: Earth


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Earth
  • Wren, Ben, and Michael

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Intro
  • Earth, Earth, Earth is amazing to some people.
  • Some people think that earth is amazing but not
    all.
  • Wren thinks the best thing on earth is people.
  • Ben thinks the most amazing thing is the
    atmosphere.

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Intro
  • Michael thinks the best things are the animals.
  • Listen heres our report figure out the best
    thing you like on earth.

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How it formed
  • Four and a half billion of years ago Earth was a
    bubbling hot inferno of liquid rock.
  • Flying rock bombarded Earth for hundreds of
    millions of years after the planet first took
    shape.
  • Scientific evidence indicates that the planet
    formed four and a half billion years ago and life
    appered on its surface within

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How it formed
  • billions of years.
  • The volcanoes spewed gas that wrapped earth in a
    primitive atmosphere.

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Description
  • The earth weighs 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000
    tons!
  • Its amazing age is 4,500,000,000.
  • Can you believe the hottest temp. is 136oF and
    the coldest is -127oF.
  • 29.5 of earths air is oxygen.
  • The earths atmosphere works like a huge engine
    that moves moisture across the earths surface.

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Crust
  • The earth has four layers.
  • The thinnest layer is the crust.
  • The crust is made of different minerals.
  • This layer is only 5-30 miles deep.

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Mantle
  • The mantle is made up of two parts, the upper and
    lower, the mantle is around 1800 miles thick.
  • The upper part is cooler than the lower.
  • The lower is very hot.
  • The mantle consists of different rocky materials.

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Core
  • The core is the center of the earth, it is
    divided into two parts, the inner core and the
    outer core.
  • The inner core is solid iron and nickel.
  • The outer core is liquid iron.

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Description
  • For one whole rotation it takes 365.25 days to go
    all the way around the sun.
  • It takes the earth 24 hours to complete a full
    circle.
  • Its average orbit speed is a spectacular 18.6
    miles per second and 30 kilometers per second.

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Description Continued
  • The earth nicknames are Blue Planet.
  • Earth means Planet Life.
  • Greek/Roman names are Tellus and Gaia.

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Extras
  • 15 year old Edward Hughes shows a magnificent 14
    ton meteorite.
  • Most pleasant thing on earth are canyons and deep
    valleys.
  • The grand canyon is 277 miles deep and 18 miles
    wide.
  • The greatest canyon on earth.

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Future
  • One reason scientist study our earth and moon is
    to try to learn what these two bodies will do in
    our solar system will become in the future.
  • It is likely that millions and billions of years
    from now earth and the moon will fall together
    and become one body in space long before that
    happens other disasters may befall earth.

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Ending
  • Thats all about the earth.

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