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  • Earth
    Earth
  • Planets: Earth in Pictures
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    Planets: Earth in Pictures
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    Planets: Interactive Exploration

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  • Eratosthenes' measurement of Earth
    Eratosthenes' measurement of Earth
  • Johannes Kepler 0:47
    Johannes Kepler
  • Earth: orbit and spin axis 1:01
    Earth: orbit and spin axis
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  • Earth: model of the interior 1:34
    Earth: model of the interior
  • earthquake waves and Earth's core
    earthquake waves and Earth's core
  • Earth's interior
    Earth's interior
  • Earth's outer layers
    Earth's outer layers

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    • Studentsplate tectonics
  • composition of Earth's crust
    composition of Earth's crust
  • igneous rock: basalt
    igneous rock: basalt

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  • metamorphic rock: marble
    metamorphic rock: marble

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    sedimentary rock: sandstone

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  • fossils: geological dating
    fossils: geological dating
  • Earth's atomosphere
    Earth's atomosphere

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    Earth's atmosphere

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  • ocean basins
    ocean basins

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  • Earth's surface features
    Earth's surface features
  • rock cycle, the
    rock cycle, the

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  • rainforest
    rainforest

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  • water cycle 1:15
    water cycle

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    water cycle
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    carbon cycle

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    carbon and oxygen

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  • nitrogen cycle
    nitrogen cycle

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    • Studentsnitrogen cycle
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    Earth: solar energy absorption

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  • heat transfer: convection 1:23
    heat transfer: convection

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  • magnetic compass 1:07
    magnetic compass

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  • Earth's magnetosphere
    Earth's magnetosphere
  • San Andreas Fault
    San Andreas Fault

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  • Surtsey Island 1:42
    Surtsey Island
  • continental drift 1:15
    continental drift

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  • types of erosion
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    Mojave Desert
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    geologic time scale

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  • Canadian Shield:
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    Canadian Shield: Reindeer Lake

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  • stromatolites
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    banded iron formation
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    geologic time scale

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  • trilobite fossil
    trilobite fossil
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    trilobites
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    Anomalocaris canadensis
  • fossilized marine snail
    fossilized marine snail
  • <i>Echinosphaerites</i>
    Echinosphaerites
  • early Silurian reef community
    early Silurian reef community

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    fossilized coral
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    Arctolepis
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    Eryops
  • coal forest
    coal forest
  • What came before the dinosaurs? 1:51
    What came before the dinosaurs?
  • <i>Dimetrodon</i>
    Dimetrodon
  • Dinosaur National Monument
    Dinosaur National Monument
  • dinosaurs
    dinosaurs
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    Plateosaurus
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    Coelophysis
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    Brachiosaurus
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    Stegosaurus
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    Archaeopteryx
  • <i>Tyrannosaurus</i>
    Tyrannosaurus
  • Beachy Head
    Beachy Head

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  • <i>Pteranodon</i>
    Pteranodon
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    Triceratops
  • Chicxulub crater
    Chicxulub crater

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  • woolly mammoth
    woolly mammoth

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