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- 2. Name all of these planets! Mercury Venus Earth Jupiter Uranus Mars Saturn Neptune
- 5. What makes Earth Habitable? Atmosphere
- 9. What makes Earth Habitable? Nutrition
- 11. Question:
- 12. Why do Earth have all these features? This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
- 13. Goldilocks Principle = “Sakto Lang” •
- 14. Living in the Goldilocks zone means having liquid water! •
- 15. Plate Tectonics
- 16. Moving Plates means having various terrains like mountains, valleys and more which helps in the distribution of nutrients and in various biogeochemical cycles that supports life (e.g. carbon and nitrogen cycle)
- 17. Atmosphere
- 18. Atmosphere
- 19. Magnetic Field
- 20. Magnetic Field This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
- 22. Similarities and differences of Venus, Earth and Mars They are all terrestrial planets They all have an atmosphere They all have roughly the same time to rotate on their axes Earth and Mars both have water They all have carbon dioxide They all have various landforms Venus has no liquid water Venus and Mars have little to no oxygen Earth has life forms
- 24. Earth Systems Overview • • • • • •
- 25. The Atmosphere • • • • This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
- 26. The Biosphere • • • This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
- 28. Geosphere • • •
- 29. System Interactions • This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
- 32. Summary
- 33. Summary: The Earth is the only known planet in the solar system that supports life. This is because it has liquid water, moving tectonic plates, an atmosphere, and a magnetic field which is due to it being part of the Goldilocks zone. The Earth has four subsystem: Atmosphere, Geosphere, Hydrosphere, and Biosphere