Reference no: EM133206483 , Length: Word count: 3 Pages
Question 1: Why is iron solid in the inner core but liquid in the outer core?
Question 2: What protects Earth from the Solar Wind?
Question 3: The Earth would by an "Iceball" without which gas trapping heat in the atmosphere?
Question 4: What started making the first oxygen on Earth?
Question 5: What happened 65 million years ago?
Question 6: What was changing rapidly during the Phanerozoic?
Question 7: During the Ordovician, about 444-488 million years ago, what did fish develop?
Question 8: What did the Solar Wind do to the atmosphere of Mars?
Question 9: Does Earth's magnetic field disappear entirely during a reversal? (A reversal is when the field flips and the north magnetic pole becomes a south magnetic pole - like turning over a bar magnet.)
Question 10: Have extinction events been associated with a magnetic field reversal in the past?
Question 11: What happened about 535 million years ago?
Question 12: During what period did most of the coal we use today form?
Question 13: When did the most significant extinction event ever happen?
Question 14: Where did the mineral Iridium, found in rock layers from about 65 million years ago, come from?
Question 15: What are the main causes of the current extinction event?