Terrestrial Worlds In The Inner Solar System

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Our Place in the Universe
Patterns in the Skymotions of Earth
Laws of Motion
Light and Telescopes
The Formation of Stars and Planets
Terrestrial Worlds in the Inner Solar System
Atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars
The Giant Planets
Small Bodies of the Solar System
Measuring the Stars
Our Star: The Sun
Evolution of Low-Mass Stars
Evolution of High-Mass Stars
The Expansion of Space
The Realm of the Galaxies
Our Galaxy: The Milky Way
Modern Cosmology and the Origin of Structure
Life in the Universe

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Mercury has the largest core compared to the size of the planet.

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Differentiation occurred inside each terrestrial planet.

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There are two main forces that shape a planet's surface: impacts and plate tectonics.

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Primary waves are seismic longitudinal waves whose paths are deflected when they travel through the Earth's liquid core.

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The interior of the Earth is differentiated because it cooled very quickly.

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Ocean tides on Earth are caused only by the Moon.

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Tides are strongest when the Moon is at first quarter phase or third quarter phase.

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Earth's magnetic axis and its spin axis are not aligned.

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Permanent magnetism in the Earth's solid iron core is the source of Earth's magnetic field.

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The Moon's tidal forces on Earth result in it pulling the near side of Earth toward it and pushing the far side of Earth away from it.

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The reason that Earth is hotter than Jupiter is because the Earth is smaller than Jupiter.

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The interior of the Earth is hot mainly because of the pressure induced by the weight of the material above it.

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Convection cannot take place in the Earth's mantle because it is not molten.

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Volcanoes on Earth typically occur in the middle of oceans where two tectonic plates move farther apart.

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All the terrestrial planets show evidence of disruptions due to tectonics.

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The smoother,less cratered surfaces of the Moon resulted from those areas being protected by the Moon's proximity to Earth.

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The maria on the Moon's surface are approximately 1 billion years younger than the rest of its surface.

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Mars has many large shield volcanoes probably because its core is colder than the Earth's core.

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The Mars rovers named Spirit and Opportunity found evidence in the chemical makeup of the rocks that proves Mars had liquid water on its surface in the past.

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On Mars,water ice is present primarily in its polar ice caps.

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