Earth
and
Life
Science
Earth
Science
Universe
and the
Solar System
REFERENCES:
• VENGCO AND RELIGIOSO (2016). YOU AND THE
NATURAL WORLD, EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE.
PHOENIX PUBLISHING HOUSE, INC. QUEZON CITY.
Olivar II and Ramos (2016). Exploring Life
Through Science Series, Earth and Life Science.
Phoenix Publishing House, Inc. Quezon City.
OBJECTIVES:
1.STATE THE DIFFERENT HYPOTHESES EXPLAINING
THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE.
2.DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENT HYPOTHESES
EXPLAINING THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
WHERE DOES
THE UNIVERSE
COME FROM?
Magic Dust
Huge
Explosion
Atomic
Particles
THEORIES ON THE
ORIGIN OF THE
UNIVERSE
Beliefs According to Religion
Greek Philosophers (5th – 3rd
Century B.C.E)
Modern Philosophers
BELIEFS ACCORDING TO
RELIGION
•CHRISTIANS •Hindus
BELIEFS ACCORDING TO
RELIGION
• CHRISTIANS – THEY BELIEVED THAT GOD
SEPARATED LIGHT
FROM
DARKNESS, CREATED SKY,
LAND, SEA, MOON, STARS,
AND
EVERY LIVING
CREATURE IN A SPAN OF SIX
DAYS.
–A NARRATIVE FROM
GENESIS (HEBREW
BIBLE AND THE
CHRISTIAN OLD
TESTAMENT).
BELIEFS ACCORDING TO RELIGION:
CHRISTIANS
1ST DAY 2nd day 3rd day
4th day
5th day
6th day
BELIEFS ACCORDING TO RELIGION:
CHRISTIANS
• 1ST DAY – LIGHT WAS CREATED
• 2ND DAY – THE SKY WAS CREATED
• 3RD DAY – DRY LAND, SEAS, PLANTS AND TREES WERE CREATED
• 4TH DAY – THE SUN, MOON AND STARS WERE CREATED
• 5TH DAY – CREATURES THAT LIVE IN THE SEA AND CREATURES
THAT FLY WERE CREATED
• 6TH DAY – ANIMALS THAT LIVE ON THE LAND AND FINALLY
HUMANS, MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD WERE CREATED
• 7TH DAY – GOD FINISHED HIS WORK OF CREATION AND RESTED,
MAKING THE SEVENTH DAY A SPECIAL HOLY DAY.
BELIEFS ACCORDING TO
RELIGION
• HINDUS – RIGVEDA (COLLECTION OF VEDAS),
DESCRIBES THE UNIVERSE AS
A “COSMIC EGG” OR BRAMANDA.
– MEANING IT CONTAINS THE WHOLE
UNIVERSE INCLUDING THE SUN,
MOON, PLANETS, AND SPACE.
– BINDU IS THE CONCENTRATED POINT THAT
EXPANDS AND EVENTUALLY COLLAPSES AGAIN.
GREEK PHILOSOPHERS (5TH – 3RD CENTURY B.
ANAXAGORAS
LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS
STOIC PHILOSOPHERS
GREEK PHILOSOPHERS (5TH – 3RD
CENTURY B.C.E)
• ANAXAGORAS – “PRIMORDIAL UNIVERSE”
–ACCORDING TO HIM, UNIVERSE IS MADE UP OF
DIFFERENT MIXTURE
OF ALL INGREDIENTS IN A SMALL
FRAGMENT.
–MIXTURE WAS SET IN MOTION CALLED
“NOUS” OR MIND.
–THIS WHIRLING MOTION SHIFTED AND
SEPARATED THE INGREDIENTS ON COSMOS
OF SEPARATE MATERIAL
OBJECTS.
GREEK PHILOSOPHERS (5TH – 3RD CENTURY
B.C.E)
LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS
• “ATOMIC UNIVERSE”
• THEY STATED THAT UNIVERSE IS COMPOSED OF
VERY SMALL, INDIVISIBLE AND
INDESTRUCTIBLE ATOMS.
GREEK PHILOSOPHERS (5TH – 3RD
CENTURY B.C.E)
• STOIC PHILOSOPHERS OF ANCIENT GREECE
• UNIVERSE IS LIKE A GIANT LIVING BODY, WITH SUN
AND THE STARS AS THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS TO
WHICH ALL THE OTHER PARTS ARE INTERCONNECTED.
MODERN PHILOSOPHERS
RENE DESCARTES
ISAAC NEWTON
ALBERT EINSTEIN
EDWIN HUBBLE
ARNO PENZIAS AND ROBERT WILSON
GEORGE HENRI JOSEPH EDOUARD LEMAITRE
FRED HOYLE, THOMAS GOLD AND HERMAN
BONDI
ANDREI LINDE
MODERN PHILOSOPHERS
• RENE DESCARTES – THE VACUUM OF SPACE WAS NOT
EMPTY AT ALL BUT
WAS FILLED WITH MATTER THAT SWIRLED
AROUND
– HIS MODEL INVOLVED A
SYSTEM OF HUGE
SWIRLING WHIRLPOOLS OF FINE MATTER
PRODUCING
WHAT WOULD LATER BE CALLED
GRAVITATIONAL EFFECT.
MODERN PHILOSOPHERS
• ISAAC NEWTON – DESCRIBED THE UNIVERSE AS A STATIC,
STEADY- STATE
INFINITE UNIVERSE. (PRINCIPIA BOOK)
– MATTER ON THE LARGE SCALE IS
UNIFORMLY
DISTRIBUTED AND THE UNIVERSE IS GRAVITATIONAL
BALANCED BUT ESSENTIALLY
UNSTABLE.
MODERN PHILOSOPHERS
• ALBERT EINSTEIN – EXPLAINED THE UNIVERSE BY HIS THEORY OF
RELATIVITY THAT HAS A SAME
THOUGHT WITH
ISAAC NEWTON.
– ADDED A COSMOLOGICAL
CONSTANT TO HIS
GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY EQUATIONS TO
COUNTERACT THE
DYNAMICAL EFFECTS OF
GRAVITY, WHICH WILL BE CAUSED OF THE
UNIVERSE TO COLLAPSE.
MODERN PHILOSOPHERS
• EDWIN HUBBLE – 1929, SHOWED THAT UNIVERSE WAS
NOT STATIC
THROUGH HIS TELESCOPE.
MODERN PHILOSOPHERS
• ARNO PENZIAS AND ROBERT WILSON
– 1965, DISCOVERED THE COSMIC MICROWAVE
BACKGROUND RADIATION.
– THE BIG BANG THEORY HAS BEEN THE
MAINSTREAM SCIENTIFIC VIEW.
MODERN PHILOSOPHERS
• GEORGE HENRI JOSEPH EDOUARD LEMAITRE
– BIG BANG THEORY (1927)
– THEORY DESCRIBES THE UNIVERSE AS
ORIGINATING FROM AN INFINITELY TINY,
INFINITELY DENSE POINT OF
SINGULARITY BETWEEN 13 – 14 BILLION YEARS AGO.
THE OSCILLATING UNIVERSE FOLLOWED GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
EQUATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE WITH POSITIVE CURVATURE.
THIS CURVATURE RESULTS IN THE UNIVERSE EXPANDING FOR A TIME AND THEN
CONTRACTING DUE TO PULL OF ITS GRAVITY IN A PERPETUAL CYCLE OF BIG BANG
FOLLOWED, IN TIME, BY BIG CRUNCH.
MODERN PHILOSOPHERS
• FRED HOYLE, THOMAS GOLD AND HERMAN BONDI
– STEADY STATE THEORY
– PREDICTED A UNIVERSE THAT EXPANDED
BUT DID NOT CHANGE ITS DENSITY.
MODERN PHILOSOPHERS
• ANDREI LINDE – DEVELOPED INFLATIONARY
UNIVERSE WITH HIS
CHAOTIC INFLATION THEORY IN 1983.
– STATES THAT OUR UNIVERSE IS
JUST ONE OF MANY
“BUBBLES” THAT GREW AS PART OF A MULTIVERSE.
THEORIES ON THE
ORIGIN OF THE
SOLAR SYSTEM
DESCARTES VORTEX THEORY
BUFFON’S COLLISION THEORY
KANT – LAPLACE NEBULAR THEORY
JEAN’S – JEFFREY’S TIDAL THEORY
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY
DESCARTES VORTEX THEORY
• RENE DESCARTES – THE SOLAR SYSTEM WAS FORMED
INTO BODIES
WITH A NEARLY CIRCULAR MOTION BECAUSE OF
WHIRLPOOL-LIKE
MOTION IN THE PRE – SOLAR
MATERIALS.
DESCARTES VORTEX THEORY
BUFFON’S COLLISION THEORY
• GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE BUFFON
– PROPOSED THAT
THE PLANETS WERE FORMED BY
THE COLLISION OF THE SUN WITH A GIANT
COMET.
– THE RESULTING
DEBRIS FORMED INTO PLANETS
AND REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN
BUFFON’S COLLISION THEORY
Collision of Sun and a Giant Comet
Debris
from the
collision
Planets are
formed
Planets revolved around the sun
KANT – LAPLACE NEBULAR
THEORY
IMMANUEL KANT AND PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE
– PROPOSED THE NEBULAR THEORY WHICH
SUGGESTED THAT A GREAT CLOUD OF GAS AND
KANT – LAPLACE NEBULAR THEORY
Great cloud of gas and dust Collapse due to rapid spinning
Turn into a pancake-shaped object
These bulges becomes the sun and planets
KANT – LAPLACE NEBULAR
THEORY
• MAJOR FLAWS.
• IT ASSUMED THAT THE TOTAL ANGULAR
MOMENTUM OF THE SYSTEM IS IN THE SUN, WHICH
IS NOT THE CASE. ONLY 0.5% OF THE TOTAL
ANGULAR MOMENTUM WAS CONTAINED IN THE
SUN’S SPIN. THE REMAINDER WAS IN THE
PLANETARY ORBIT.
JEAN’S – JEFFREY’S TIDAL THEORY
JAMES HOPWOOD JEANS AND HAROLD JEFFREYS
THE PLANETS WERE FORMED FROM THE SUBSTANCE THAT WAS
TORN OUT OF THE SUN. AS A SPEEDING MASSIVE STAR PASSED
JEAN’S – JEFFREY’S TIDAL THEORY
Speeding massive
star passed near
the sun.
Pulled of sun
materials due to
gravitational
attraction.
The torn off
materials
subsequently
condensed to form
the planets.
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY
• SOLAR SYSTEM WAS FORMED AS A RESULT OF THE
CONDENSATION AND OF HYDROGEN GAS AND
DUST (INTERSTELLAR GAS AND DUST CLOUD).
THERE IS AN EXPLOSION OF A STAR (SUPERNOVA)
MIGHT HAVE CAUSED THE DUST AND GAS CLOUD
TO COLLAPSE FORMING THE SUN AND PLANET.
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY
CONDENSATION OF
HYDROGEN GAS
AND DUST.
An explosion of a star
(supernova) might have
caused the dust and gas to
collapse.
Contraction converted
gravitational energy into
heat energy and caused the
center to glow.
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY: STAGES OF
FORMATION OF PLANETS
ACCRETION OF THE GRAIN-
SIZED PARTICLES TO FORM
CENTIMETER-SIZED PARTICLES
WHICH WOULD LATER GROW
TO SEVERAL KILOMETERS IN A
DIAMETER.
The formation of more
massive objects from
coalescing planetesimal.
The massive objects are
referred as protoplanets
would later become planets.
SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY
TERRESTRIAL
PLANETS
JUVIAN PLANETS
END OF THE TOPIC! THANK YOU!
•KINDLY PROCEED TO THE NEXT
TOPIC; EARTH AND EARTH
SUBSYSTEM.
EARTH AND EARTH’S SUBSYSTEMS
OBJECTIVES:
1. RECOGNIZE THE UNIQUENESS OF EARTH BEING THE
ONLY PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH
PROPERTIES NECESSARY TO SUPPORT LIFE.
2. EXPLAIN THAT THE EARTH CONSIST OF FOUR
SUBSYSTEMS, ACROSS WHOSE BOUNDARIES
MATTER AND ENERGY FLOW.
3. IDENTIFY THE LAYERS OF THE EARTH (CRUST,
MANTLE, AND CORE).
EARTH
• EARTH IS THE ONLY
PLANET IN THE
SOLAR SYSTEM THAT
CAN SUSTAIN LIFE
DUE TO ITS
CHARACTERISTICS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF EARTH TO SUSTAIN
LIFE.
• PRESENCE OF WATER ALLOWED FIRST
PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS TO THRIVE.
• SUN PROVIDES HEAT FROM RADIATION, NEEDED BY
PLANTS TO CARRY ON WITH PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
• COMPONENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE CONSISTS
DIFFERENT TYPES OF GASES TO SUPPORT LIFE.
EARTH’S SUBSYSTEMS
HYDROSPHE
RE
ATMOSPHER
E
BIOSPHERE
HYDROSPHERE
• THE TOTALITY OF
EARTH’S WATER
ATMOSPHERE
• COMPOSED A MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT GASES THAT
SURROUNDS THE PLANET EARTH.
• IT SERVES ALSO AS PROTECTION ON MATERIALS FROM
THE OUTER SPACE THAT MIGHT HIT THE PLANET.
• IT CONTAINS NITROGEN, OXYGEN, ARGON, CARBON
DIOXIDE, AND WATER VAPOR.
• APPROXIMATELY THE ATMOSPHERE CONSISTS OF (78% -
NITROGEN) (21% - OXYGEN) (0.9% - ARGON) (0.1% -
ATMOSPHERE
BIOSPHERE
• ALSO CALLED AS “ZONE OF
LIFE” BECAUSE IT CONTAINS
THE ENTIRETY OF EARTH’S
LIVING THINGS.
• INCLUDES ALL LIFE FORMS
EVEN ORGANIC MATTER THAT
HAS NOT YET DECOMPOSE.
• IT IS ALSO IN THIS ZONE THAT
THE INTERACTION BETWEEN
THE DIFFERENT SUBSYSTEMS IS
MOST DYNAMIC.
BIOSPHERE: THE FLOW OF
MATTER
•NITROGEN
CYCLE
•OXYGEN CYCLE
•CARBON CYCLE
•WATER CYCLE
NITROGEN CYCLE
• THE SERIES OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH
NITROGEN AND ITS COMPOUNDS ARE
INTERCONVERTED IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND
IN LIVING ORGANISMS.
NITROGEN CYCLE
CARBON AND OXYGEN
CYCLE
• CARBON CYCLE
• CARBON DIOXIDE IS FIXED
BY PHOTOSYNTHETIC
ORGANISMS TO FORM
ORGANIC NUTRIENTS AND
IS ULTIMATELY RESTORED
TO THE INORGANIC STATE
(AS BY RESPIRATION,
PROTOPLASMIC DECAY, OR
COMBUSTION).
 Oxygen Cycle
 Atmospheric oxygen is
converted to carbon
dioxide (CO2) in animal
respiration and
regenerated by green
plants in photosynthesis.
CARBON AND OXYGEN
CYCLE
WATER CYCLE
• CONTINUOUS PROCESS BY WHICH WATER IS CIRCULATED
THROUGH THE EARTH.
GEOSPHERE
• REFERS TO THE SOLID EARTH.
• THE GEOSPHERE INCLUDES THE
ROCKS AND MINERALS ON EARTH
– FROM THE MOLTEN ROCK AND
HEAVY METALS IN THE DEEP
INTERIOR OF THE PLANET TO THE
SAND ON BEACHES AND PEAKS OF
MOUNTAINS.
• THE GEOSPHERE ALSO INCLUDES
LAYERS OF THE EARTH
•CRUST
•MANT
LE
•CORE
LAYERS OF THE EARTH:
CRUST
• OUTERMOST LAYER OF THE
EARTH.
• (OCEANIC CRUST)
RELATIVELY THIN PART
WHICH UNDERLIES THE
OCEAN BASINS.
• (CONTINENTAL CRUST)
RELATIVELY THICK PART
THAT FORMS THE LARGE
LANDMASSES
LAYERS OF THE EARTH:
MANTLE
• LONGEST PART OF
EARTH (2900 KM.) MADE
UP OF MOLTEN ROCKS
CALLED MAGMA
• LOWER (HOT AND
EXHIBITS PLASTICITY)
• UPPER (RELATIVELY
RIGID)
LAYERS OF THE EARTH:
CORE
• COMPOSED OF DENSE
METALS LIKE IRON AND
NICKEL
• THE INNER CORE (6000°C)
(1250 KM.)
• OUTER CORE (4000 – 5000°C)
(2300 KM.)
STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH
END OF THE TOPIC
•KINDLY PROCEED TO THE NEXT
TOPIC; MINERALS AND ROCKS.
Rocks and
Minerals
OBJECTIVES:
1.Identify common rock-forming minerals
using their physical and chemical properties.
2.Classify rocks into igneous, sedimentary,
and metamorphic.
ROCKS
• Naturally occurring aggregate
or a combination of minerals
and mineraloids such as
fossils and glass.
• The natural building block of
earth’s lithosphere.
• An aggregate of one or more
minerals.
ROCK CYCLE
•A process where rocks are
constantly being transformed,
generated, and destroyed.
ROCK CYCLE
TYPES OF ROCKS
•IGNEOUS
•SEDIMENTARY
•METAMORPHIC
IGNEOUS ROCKS
• “Ignis” a Latin word meaning fire
• Formed by volcanic activity.
• Magma is molten rock generated by the
partial melting of rocks in earth’s
mantle.
TYPES OF IGNEOUS ROCKS
•EXTRUSIVE ROCKS
•INTRUSIVE ROCKS
EXTRUSIVE ROCKS
• Extrusive igneous rocks form when magma reaches the
earth's surface a volcano and cools quickly.
• Most extrusive (volcanic) rocks have small crystals.
• Examples include basalt, rhyolite, andesite, and obsidian.
INTRUSIVE ROCKS
• Intrusive, or plutonic, igneous rocks form when magma
cools slowly below the earth's surface.
• Most intrusive rocks have large, well-formed crystals.
• Examples include granite, gabbro, diorite and dunite.
SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
•Formed during
lithification,
compaction,
cementation, and
accumulation.
TYPES OF SEDIMENTARY
ROCKS
•Detrimental Sedimentary Rocks
•Chemical Sedimentary Rocks
Detrimental Sedimentary
Rocks
• Rocks come from
weathered rocks such as
igneous rocks.
CHEMICAL SEDIMENTARY
ROCKS
• Rocks come from soluble
materials produced largely by
chemical weathering.
METAMORPHIC ROCKS
• Formed from the
exposure of sedimentary
or igneous rocks to high
pressure and temperature,
or both, deep within the
earth’s surface.
MINERALS
• Solid substances that are
present in nature and can be
made of one element or more
elements combined together
(chemical compounds).
• Solid inorganic compound,
represented by a chemical
formula.
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF
MINERALS
•CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
TRANSPARENCY
•CRYSTAL HABIT LUSTER
•HARDNESS CLEAVAGE
•COLOR SPECIFIC
GRAVITY
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
• Describes the orderly geometric spatial arrangement of atoms in
the internal structure of a mineral.
CRYSTAL HABIT
• Refers to the overall shape of the crystal.
HARDNESS
• Refers to
the mineral
resistance
to scratch.
COLOR
• Caused by absorption, or lack thereof, of visible light by their
crystalline
STREAK
• Refers to the color of the mineral in powdered form.
TRANSPARENCY
• Allows the light to pass through and you can see objects
through..
LUSTER
• How light is reflected off a surface of a mineral.
CLEAVAGE
• Resistance to being broken.
SPECIFIC GRAVITY
• A measure of the relative density of a mineral.
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
• Solubility – the ability of a mineral to dissolve in a liquid.
END OF THE TOPIC
• KINDLY PROCEED TO THE NEXT TOPIC; PROCESSES
WITHIN THE EARTH.
Earth’s Processes and
Plate Tectonics
OBJECTIVES:
1.Describe how rocks undergo weathering
2.Explain how the products of weathering we carried
away by the erosion and deposited elsewhere.
3.Make a report on how rocks and soil move down
slope due to the direct action of gravity.
EXOGENIC PROCESSES
•External processes that occur at or near
the surface of earth.
•Part of rock cycle
•Weathering, Mass Wasting, Erosion,
Transportation and Deposition
EXOGENIC PROCESSES
WEATHERING
•Combined action of all
physical and chemical
processes that
disintegrate and
decompose rocks near
the earth’s surface
through the elements of
TYPES OF WEATHERING
•Physical / Mechanical Weathering
•Chemical Weathering
EXOGENIC PROCESSES
PHYSICAL / MECHANICAL
WEATHERING
•Breaking up of large
rocks into smaller
fragments without
changing the rock’s
mineral composition.
PHYSICAL / MECHANICAL
WEATHERING
Block
Disintegration Exfoliation
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
•Weakening or
disintegration of rocks
and the formation of
new compounds or
substances caused by
chemical reaction.
CHEMICAL WEATHERING
Carbonati
on
Oxidati
on
Hydratio
PRODUCTS OF
WEATHERING
•MASS WASTING
•EROSION
•TRANSPORTATION
EXOGENIC PROCESSES
MASS WASTING
• Refers to the downslope movement of rock, regolith, and soil because
of gravity.
Rock and
Debris Falls
Flows
Landslides
EXOGENIC PROCESSES
EROSION
• The process of transporting weathered sediments by agents of
erosion to different places.
Water Glaciers Wind
EXOGENIC PROCESSES
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    REFERENCES: • VENGCO ANDRELIGIOSO (2016). YOU AND THE NATURAL WORLD, EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE. PHOENIX PUBLISHING HOUSE, INC. QUEZON CITY. Olivar II and Ramos (2016). Exploring Life Through Science Series, Earth and Life Science. Phoenix Publishing House, Inc. Quezon City.
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    OBJECTIVES: 1.STATE THE DIFFERENTHYPOTHESES EXPLAINING THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE. 2.DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENT HYPOTHESES EXPLAINING THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
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    THEORIES ON THE ORIGINOF THE UNIVERSE
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    Beliefs According toReligion Greek Philosophers (5th – 3rd Century B.C.E) Modern Philosophers
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    BELIEFS ACCORDING TO RELIGION •CHRISTIANS – THEY BELIEVED THAT GOD SEPARATED LIGHT FROM DARKNESS, CREATED SKY, LAND, SEA, MOON, STARS, AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE IN A SPAN OF SIX DAYS. –A NARRATIVE FROM GENESIS (HEBREW BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN OLD TESTAMENT).
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    BELIEFS ACCORDING TORELIGION: CHRISTIANS 1ST DAY 2nd day 3rd day 4th day 5th day 6th day
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    BELIEFS ACCORDING TORELIGION: CHRISTIANS • 1ST DAY – LIGHT WAS CREATED • 2ND DAY – THE SKY WAS CREATED • 3RD DAY – DRY LAND, SEAS, PLANTS AND TREES WERE CREATED • 4TH DAY – THE SUN, MOON AND STARS WERE CREATED • 5TH DAY – CREATURES THAT LIVE IN THE SEA AND CREATURES THAT FLY WERE CREATED • 6TH DAY – ANIMALS THAT LIVE ON THE LAND AND FINALLY HUMANS, MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD WERE CREATED • 7TH DAY – GOD FINISHED HIS WORK OF CREATION AND RESTED, MAKING THE SEVENTH DAY A SPECIAL HOLY DAY.
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    BELIEFS ACCORDING TO RELIGION •HINDUS – RIGVEDA (COLLECTION OF VEDAS), DESCRIBES THE UNIVERSE AS A “COSMIC EGG” OR BRAMANDA. – MEANING IT CONTAINS THE WHOLE UNIVERSE INCLUDING THE SUN, MOON, PLANETS, AND SPACE. – BINDU IS THE CONCENTRATED POINT THAT EXPANDS AND EVENTUALLY COLLAPSES AGAIN.
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    GREEK PHILOSOPHERS (5TH– 3RD CENTURY B. ANAXAGORAS LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS STOIC PHILOSOPHERS
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    GREEK PHILOSOPHERS (5TH– 3RD CENTURY B.C.E) • ANAXAGORAS – “PRIMORDIAL UNIVERSE” –ACCORDING TO HIM, UNIVERSE IS MADE UP OF DIFFERENT MIXTURE OF ALL INGREDIENTS IN A SMALL FRAGMENT. –MIXTURE WAS SET IN MOTION CALLED “NOUS” OR MIND. –THIS WHIRLING MOTION SHIFTED AND SEPARATED THE INGREDIENTS ON COSMOS OF SEPARATE MATERIAL OBJECTS.
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    GREEK PHILOSOPHERS (5TH– 3RD CENTURY B.C.E) LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS • “ATOMIC UNIVERSE” • THEY STATED THAT UNIVERSE IS COMPOSED OF VERY SMALL, INDIVISIBLE AND INDESTRUCTIBLE ATOMS.
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    GREEK PHILOSOPHERS (5TH– 3RD CENTURY B.C.E) • STOIC PHILOSOPHERS OF ANCIENT GREECE • UNIVERSE IS LIKE A GIANT LIVING BODY, WITH SUN AND THE STARS AS THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS TO WHICH ALL THE OTHER PARTS ARE INTERCONNECTED.
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    MODERN PHILOSOPHERS RENE DESCARTES ISAACNEWTON ALBERT EINSTEIN EDWIN HUBBLE ARNO PENZIAS AND ROBERT WILSON GEORGE HENRI JOSEPH EDOUARD LEMAITRE FRED HOYLE, THOMAS GOLD AND HERMAN BONDI ANDREI LINDE
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    MODERN PHILOSOPHERS • RENEDESCARTES – THE VACUUM OF SPACE WAS NOT EMPTY AT ALL BUT WAS FILLED WITH MATTER THAT SWIRLED AROUND – HIS MODEL INVOLVED A SYSTEM OF HUGE SWIRLING WHIRLPOOLS OF FINE MATTER PRODUCING WHAT WOULD LATER BE CALLED GRAVITATIONAL EFFECT.
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    MODERN PHILOSOPHERS • ISAACNEWTON – DESCRIBED THE UNIVERSE AS A STATIC, STEADY- STATE INFINITE UNIVERSE. (PRINCIPIA BOOK) – MATTER ON THE LARGE SCALE IS UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED AND THE UNIVERSE IS GRAVITATIONAL BALANCED BUT ESSENTIALLY UNSTABLE.
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    MODERN PHILOSOPHERS • ALBERTEINSTEIN – EXPLAINED THE UNIVERSE BY HIS THEORY OF RELATIVITY THAT HAS A SAME THOUGHT WITH ISAAC NEWTON. – ADDED A COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT TO HIS GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY EQUATIONS TO COUNTERACT THE DYNAMICAL EFFECTS OF GRAVITY, WHICH WILL BE CAUSED OF THE UNIVERSE TO COLLAPSE.
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    MODERN PHILOSOPHERS • EDWINHUBBLE – 1929, SHOWED THAT UNIVERSE WAS NOT STATIC THROUGH HIS TELESCOPE.
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    MODERN PHILOSOPHERS • ARNOPENZIAS AND ROBERT WILSON – 1965, DISCOVERED THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION. – THE BIG BANG THEORY HAS BEEN THE MAINSTREAM SCIENTIFIC VIEW.
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    MODERN PHILOSOPHERS • GEORGEHENRI JOSEPH EDOUARD LEMAITRE – BIG BANG THEORY (1927) – THEORY DESCRIBES THE UNIVERSE AS ORIGINATING FROM AN INFINITELY TINY, INFINITELY DENSE POINT OF SINGULARITY BETWEEN 13 – 14 BILLION YEARS AGO. THE OSCILLATING UNIVERSE FOLLOWED GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY EQUATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE WITH POSITIVE CURVATURE. THIS CURVATURE RESULTS IN THE UNIVERSE EXPANDING FOR A TIME AND THEN CONTRACTING DUE TO PULL OF ITS GRAVITY IN A PERPETUAL CYCLE OF BIG BANG FOLLOWED, IN TIME, BY BIG CRUNCH.
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    MODERN PHILOSOPHERS • FREDHOYLE, THOMAS GOLD AND HERMAN BONDI – STEADY STATE THEORY – PREDICTED A UNIVERSE THAT EXPANDED BUT DID NOT CHANGE ITS DENSITY.
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    MODERN PHILOSOPHERS • ANDREILINDE – DEVELOPED INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE WITH HIS CHAOTIC INFLATION THEORY IN 1983. – STATES THAT OUR UNIVERSE IS JUST ONE OF MANY “BUBBLES” THAT GREW AS PART OF A MULTIVERSE.
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    THEORIES ON THE ORIGINOF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
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    DESCARTES VORTEX THEORY BUFFON’SCOLLISION THEORY KANT – LAPLACE NEBULAR THEORY JEAN’S – JEFFREY’S TIDAL THEORY SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY
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    DESCARTES VORTEX THEORY •RENE DESCARTES – THE SOLAR SYSTEM WAS FORMED INTO BODIES WITH A NEARLY CIRCULAR MOTION BECAUSE OF WHIRLPOOL-LIKE MOTION IN THE PRE – SOLAR MATERIALS.
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    BUFFON’S COLLISION THEORY •GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE BUFFON – PROPOSED THAT THE PLANETS WERE FORMED BY THE COLLISION OF THE SUN WITH A GIANT COMET. – THE RESULTING DEBRIS FORMED INTO PLANETS AND REVOLVED AROUND THE SUN
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    BUFFON’S COLLISION THEORY Collisionof Sun and a Giant Comet Debris from the collision Planets are formed Planets revolved around the sun
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    KANT – LAPLACENEBULAR THEORY IMMANUEL KANT AND PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE – PROPOSED THE NEBULAR THEORY WHICH SUGGESTED THAT A GREAT CLOUD OF GAS AND
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    KANT – LAPLACENEBULAR THEORY Great cloud of gas and dust Collapse due to rapid spinning Turn into a pancake-shaped object These bulges becomes the sun and planets
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    KANT – LAPLACENEBULAR THEORY • MAJOR FLAWS. • IT ASSUMED THAT THE TOTAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF THE SYSTEM IS IN THE SUN, WHICH IS NOT THE CASE. ONLY 0.5% OF THE TOTAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM WAS CONTAINED IN THE SUN’S SPIN. THE REMAINDER WAS IN THE PLANETARY ORBIT.
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    JEAN’S – JEFFREY’STIDAL THEORY JAMES HOPWOOD JEANS AND HAROLD JEFFREYS THE PLANETS WERE FORMED FROM THE SUBSTANCE THAT WAS TORN OUT OF THE SUN. AS A SPEEDING MASSIVE STAR PASSED
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    JEAN’S – JEFFREY’STIDAL THEORY Speeding massive star passed near the sun. Pulled of sun materials due to gravitational attraction. The torn off materials subsequently condensed to form the planets.
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    SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY •SOLAR SYSTEM WAS FORMED AS A RESULT OF THE CONDENSATION AND OF HYDROGEN GAS AND DUST (INTERSTELLAR GAS AND DUST CLOUD). THERE IS AN EXPLOSION OF A STAR (SUPERNOVA) MIGHT HAVE CAUSED THE DUST AND GAS CLOUD TO COLLAPSE FORMING THE SUN AND PLANET.
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    SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY CONDENSATIONOF HYDROGEN GAS AND DUST. An explosion of a star (supernova) might have caused the dust and gas to collapse. Contraction converted gravitational energy into heat energy and caused the center to glow.
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    SOLAR NEBULAR THEORY:STAGES OF FORMATION OF PLANETS ACCRETION OF THE GRAIN- SIZED PARTICLES TO FORM CENTIMETER-SIZED PARTICLES WHICH WOULD LATER GROW TO SEVERAL KILOMETERS IN A DIAMETER. The formation of more massive objects from coalescing planetesimal. The massive objects are referred as protoplanets would later become planets.
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    END OF THETOPIC! THANK YOU! •KINDLY PROCEED TO THE NEXT TOPIC; EARTH AND EARTH SUBSYSTEM.
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    OBJECTIVES: 1. RECOGNIZE THEUNIQUENESS OF EARTH BEING THE ONLY PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH PROPERTIES NECESSARY TO SUPPORT LIFE. 2. EXPLAIN THAT THE EARTH CONSIST OF FOUR SUBSYSTEMS, ACROSS WHOSE BOUNDARIES MATTER AND ENERGY FLOW. 3. IDENTIFY THE LAYERS OF THE EARTH (CRUST, MANTLE, AND CORE).
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    EARTH • EARTH ISTHE ONLY PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM THAT CAN SUSTAIN LIFE DUE TO ITS CHARACTERISTICS.
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    CHARACTERISTICS OF EARTHTO SUSTAIN LIFE. • PRESENCE OF WATER ALLOWED FIRST PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS TO THRIVE. • SUN PROVIDES HEAT FROM RADIATION, NEEDED BY PLANTS TO CARRY ON WITH PHOTOSYNTHESIS. • COMPONENT OF THE ATMOSPHERE CONSISTS DIFFERENT TYPES OF GASES TO SUPPORT LIFE.
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    HYDROSPHERE • THE TOTALITYOF EARTH’S WATER
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    ATMOSPHERE • COMPOSED AMIXTURE OF DIFFERENT GASES THAT SURROUNDS THE PLANET EARTH. • IT SERVES ALSO AS PROTECTION ON MATERIALS FROM THE OUTER SPACE THAT MIGHT HIT THE PLANET. • IT CONTAINS NITROGEN, OXYGEN, ARGON, CARBON DIOXIDE, AND WATER VAPOR. • APPROXIMATELY THE ATMOSPHERE CONSISTS OF (78% - NITROGEN) (21% - OXYGEN) (0.9% - ARGON) (0.1% -
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    BIOSPHERE • ALSO CALLEDAS “ZONE OF LIFE” BECAUSE IT CONTAINS THE ENTIRETY OF EARTH’S LIVING THINGS. • INCLUDES ALL LIFE FORMS EVEN ORGANIC MATTER THAT HAS NOT YET DECOMPOSE. • IT IS ALSO IN THIS ZONE THAT THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT SUBSYSTEMS IS MOST DYNAMIC.
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    BIOSPHERE: THE FLOWOF MATTER •NITROGEN CYCLE •OXYGEN CYCLE •CARBON CYCLE •WATER CYCLE
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    NITROGEN CYCLE • THESERIES OF THE PROCESS BY WHICH NITROGEN AND ITS COMPOUNDS ARE INTERCONVERTED IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND IN LIVING ORGANISMS.
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    CARBON AND OXYGEN CYCLE •CARBON CYCLE • CARBON DIOXIDE IS FIXED BY PHOTOSYNTHETIC ORGANISMS TO FORM ORGANIC NUTRIENTS AND IS ULTIMATELY RESTORED TO THE INORGANIC STATE (AS BY RESPIRATION, PROTOPLASMIC DECAY, OR COMBUSTION).  Oxygen Cycle  Atmospheric oxygen is converted to carbon dioxide (CO2) in animal respiration and regenerated by green plants in photosynthesis.
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    WATER CYCLE • CONTINUOUSPROCESS BY WHICH WATER IS CIRCULATED THROUGH THE EARTH.
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    GEOSPHERE • REFERS TOTHE SOLID EARTH. • THE GEOSPHERE INCLUDES THE ROCKS AND MINERALS ON EARTH – FROM THE MOLTEN ROCK AND HEAVY METALS IN THE DEEP INTERIOR OF THE PLANET TO THE SAND ON BEACHES AND PEAKS OF MOUNTAINS. • THE GEOSPHERE ALSO INCLUDES
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    LAYERS OF THEEARTH •CRUST •MANT LE •CORE
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    LAYERS OF THEEARTH: CRUST • OUTERMOST LAYER OF THE EARTH. • (OCEANIC CRUST) RELATIVELY THIN PART WHICH UNDERLIES THE OCEAN BASINS. • (CONTINENTAL CRUST) RELATIVELY THICK PART THAT FORMS THE LARGE LANDMASSES
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    LAYERS OF THEEARTH: MANTLE • LONGEST PART OF EARTH (2900 KM.) MADE UP OF MOLTEN ROCKS CALLED MAGMA • LOWER (HOT AND EXHIBITS PLASTICITY) • UPPER (RELATIVELY RIGID)
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    LAYERS OF THEEARTH: CORE • COMPOSED OF DENSE METALS LIKE IRON AND NICKEL • THE INNER CORE (6000°C) (1250 KM.) • OUTER CORE (4000 – 5000°C) (2300 KM.)
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    END OF THETOPIC •KINDLY PROCEED TO THE NEXT TOPIC; MINERALS AND ROCKS.
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    OBJECTIVES: 1.Identify common rock-formingminerals using their physical and chemical properties. 2.Classify rocks into igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.
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    ROCKS • Naturally occurringaggregate or a combination of minerals and mineraloids such as fossils and glass. • The natural building block of earth’s lithosphere. • An aggregate of one or more minerals.
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    ROCK CYCLE •A processwhere rocks are constantly being transformed, generated, and destroyed.
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    IGNEOUS ROCKS • “Ignis”a Latin word meaning fire • Formed by volcanic activity. • Magma is molten rock generated by the partial melting of rocks in earth’s mantle.
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    TYPES OF IGNEOUSROCKS •EXTRUSIVE ROCKS •INTRUSIVE ROCKS
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    EXTRUSIVE ROCKS • Extrusiveigneous rocks form when magma reaches the earth's surface a volcano and cools quickly. • Most extrusive (volcanic) rocks have small crystals. • Examples include basalt, rhyolite, andesite, and obsidian.
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    INTRUSIVE ROCKS • Intrusive,or plutonic, igneous rocks form when magma cools slowly below the earth's surface. • Most intrusive rocks have large, well-formed crystals. • Examples include granite, gabbro, diorite and dunite.
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    TYPES OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS •DetrimentalSedimentary Rocks •Chemical Sedimentary Rocks
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    Detrimental Sedimentary Rocks • Rockscome from weathered rocks such as igneous rocks.
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    CHEMICAL SEDIMENTARY ROCKS • Rockscome from soluble materials produced largely by chemical weathering.
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    METAMORPHIC ROCKS • Formedfrom the exposure of sedimentary or igneous rocks to high pressure and temperature, or both, deep within the earth’s surface.
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    MINERALS • Solid substancesthat are present in nature and can be made of one element or more elements combined together (chemical compounds). • Solid inorganic compound, represented by a chemical formula.
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    PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MINERALS •CRYSTALSTRUCTURE TRANSPARENCY •CRYSTAL HABIT LUSTER •HARDNESS CLEAVAGE •COLOR SPECIFIC GRAVITY
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    CRYSTAL STRUCTURE • Describesthe orderly geometric spatial arrangement of atoms in the internal structure of a mineral.
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    CRYSTAL HABIT • Refersto the overall shape of the crystal.
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    HARDNESS • Refers to themineral resistance to scratch.
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    COLOR • Caused byabsorption, or lack thereof, of visible light by their crystalline
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    STREAK • Refers tothe color of the mineral in powdered form.
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    TRANSPARENCY • Allows thelight to pass through and you can see objects through..
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    LUSTER • How lightis reflected off a surface of a mineral.
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    SPECIFIC GRAVITY • Ameasure of the relative density of a mineral.
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    CHEMICAL PROPERTIES • Solubility– the ability of a mineral to dissolve in a liquid.
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    END OF THETOPIC • KINDLY PROCEED TO THE NEXT TOPIC; PROCESSES WITHIN THE EARTH.
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    OBJECTIVES: 1.Describe how rocksundergo weathering 2.Explain how the products of weathering we carried away by the erosion and deposited elsewhere. 3.Make a report on how rocks and soil move down slope due to the direct action of gravity.
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    EXOGENIC PROCESSES •External processesthat occur at or near the surface of earth. •Part of rock cycle •Weathering, Mass Wasting, Erosion, Transportation and Deposition
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    WEATHERING •Combined action ofall physical and chemical processes that disintegrate and decompose rocks near the earth’s surface through the elements of
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    TYPES OF WEATHERING •Physical/ Mechanical Weathering •Chemical Weathering
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    PHYSICAL / MECHANICAL WEATHERING •Breakingup of large rocks into smaller fragments without changing the rock’s mineral composition.
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    CHEMICAL WEATHERING •Weakening or disintegrationof rocks and the formation of new compounds or substances caused by chemical reaction.
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    MASS WASTING • Refersto the downslope movement of rock, regolith, and soil because of gravity. Rock and Debris Falls Flows Landslides
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    EROSION • The processof transporting weathered sediments by agents of erosion to different places. Water Glaciers Wind
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