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ancient Egyptian
Ancient Egyptians believed in many Gods and myths which narrate that the world arose From infinite sea at the First rising of the sun
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people of central africa
The kuba people of Central Africa tell the story of a creator Mbombo who alone in a dark and water-covered Earth Felt an intense stomach pain and then vomited the starts sun and moon
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in india
In India, there is a narrative that Gods sacrificed Purusha, a primal man whose head, Feet, eyes and mind became sky, earth, sun Ond moon respectively.
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monotheistic religionsnon
The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam claim that a supreme being created" the universe, including man and other living organisms.
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-ATOMIC UNIVERS- universe was composed of very small indivisible and indestructible atoms
  • isaac newton
  • laucippus and democritus
  • rene Descartes
  • Albert Einstein
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STATIC, STEADY-STATE Infinite universe matter on a large scale is uniformally distributed and the universe is gravitationally balanced but essentially unstable assume that
  • isaac newton
  • rene Descartes
  • leucippus and democritus
  • Albert Einstein
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the space was not empty at all but filled with matter that swirled around in large and small vertices his model involved a system of a huge swirling whirlpool of fine matter. CARTESIAN VIRTEX MODEL
  • albert Einstein
  • rene Descartes
  • isaac newton
  • adrei linde
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assumed that the universe was no different from newton that the universe was static dynamically stable universe which neither expanding nor contracting he would later abandon this theory when in 1929
  • albert Einstein
  • isaac newton
  • andrei linde
  • tycho brahe
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multiverse, universes like bubble
  • rene brahe
  • Albert Einstein
  • tycho brahe
  • andrei linde
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Aristotle's and ptolemy's universe
geocentric theory (earth centered)
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believed in geocentric model of solar system no
tycho brahe
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nicolaus copernicus
heliocentric theory (sun centered)
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he proved the copernican theory using a new invention the telescope was able to view parts of our solar system in motion
  • johannes Kepler
  • Galileo Galilei
  • isaac newton
  • rene Descartes
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the orbit of a planet is an eclipse with the sun at one focus
  • keplers first law of planetary motion
  • keplers second law of planetary motion
  • keplers third law of planetary motion
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when a planet is near the sun in its orbit (perihelion) it move faster when it's farther from the sun(aphelion) it moves slower
  • keplers first law of planetary motion
  • keplers second law of planetary motion
  • keplers third law of planetary motion
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the largest a planet's orbit the longer it takes
  • keplers first law of planetary motion
  • keplers second law of planetary motion
  • keplers third law of planetary motion
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a rogue star pass close to the sun and stripped materials from both the sun and the rogue starprot
  • encounter hypothesis
  • nebular hypothesis
  • protoplanet hypothesis
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the entire solar system started as a large cloud of gas that contracted to to self gravity
  • encounter hypothesis
  • nebular hypothesis
  • protoplanet hypothesis
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build on the main concepts of the nebular hypothesis of fluids and state of matter
  • encounter hypothesis
  • nebular hypothesis
  • protoplanet hypothesis
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he is the belgian priest to whom the bigbang theory is attributed
  • george lamaitre
  • alan guth
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incorporated cosmic inflation to solve uncertainties of the big bang model
  • george lemaitre
  • alan guth
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influence how quickly atoms molecules ot organism to move
  • temperature
  • low temperature
  • high temperature
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slow down a chemical reaction causes bound to break
  • temperature
  • low temperature
  • high temperature
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can cause breakdown of biomolecules
  • temperature
  • low temperature
  • high temperature
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absence of this will interfere reaction is a sorry for life
water
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provides insulation or shielding from the sun and meteorites
  • atmosphere
  • biosphere
  • geosphere
  • hydrosphere
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used to build in maintain organism structure water carbon and oxygen phosphate and nitrogen cycles
nutrients
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living thing and non-living things. system is a set of interconnected components that are interacting to form a unified whole
ecosystem
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process that move matter and energy from one sphear to another
sphere interaction
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solid part of the earth
  • atmosphere
  • geosphere
  • biosphere
  • hydrosphere
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outermost layer light and very thin outer skin of the earth
  • crust
  • mantle
  • core
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less dense layer made up of iron magnesium oxygen and silicon
  • crust
  • Mantle
  • core
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denser layered earth magnetic field outer core is liquid or molten inner core is solid form nickel and iron has the same temperature of the sun zone of earth where all form of life exists the large ecosystem each organism play an important role in food web
  • crust
  • mantle
  • core
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solid form liquid form and gas vapor
  • geosphere
  • biosphere
  • atmosphere
  • hydrosphere
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zone of earth where all forms of life exist the large ecosystem
  • biosphere
  • atmosphere
  • geosphere
  • hydrosphere
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then says part almost all weather types are in region
  • troposphere
  • stratosphere
  • mesosphere
  • ionosphere
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location of ozone layer which absorb the scatter the solar uv radiation
  • troposphere
  • stratosphere
  • exosphere
  • thermosphere
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meteors usually burn up and become a shooting star
  • mesosphere
  • troposphere
  • ionosphere
  • exosphere
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radio communication possible
  • ionosphere
  • thermosphere
  • stratosphere
  • thermosphere
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it is the area of aurora and satellites
  • troposphere
  • mesosphere
  • exosphere
  • thermosphere
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upper limit of the atmosphere separating earth and space
  • exosphere
  • thermosphere
  • mesosphere
  • troposphere
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oxygen produced by rainforest
  • 28%
  • 50 to 85%
  • 2%
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oxygen produced by marine plants
  • 28%
  • 50 to 85%
  • 2%
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oxygen produced by other sources
  • 28%
  • 50 to 85%
  • 2%
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naturally occurring
inorganic
solid
definite chemical composition ordered internal structure
minerals
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minerals of definite chemical composition they form definite structure
  • crystal form
  • habit
  • cleavage
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the outward appearance of the mineral crystal form
  • crystal form
  • habit
  • cleavage
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tendency of a mineral to break along planes of weakness
  • crystal form
  • cleavage
  • fracture
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minerals that do not have cleavage full fracture either in irregular mother of conchoidal
  • fracture
  • luster
  • color
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the appearance of light as it is reflected off its surface
  • color
  • cleavage
  • luster
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most obvious minerals property but not reliable in identifying minerals
  • color
  • streak
  • hardness
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the color of a mineral it is powdered
  • streak
  • color
  • cleavage
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measurement of the strength of the chemical bonds in its structure
  • specific gravity
  • hardness
  • habit
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