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Origin and Structure of The Earth

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Total cards: 18•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

Big Bang Theory

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• Alexander Friedman • George Lemaitre Due to a random fluctuation.

#2
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Inflation Theory

Back (Answer)

Exponential expansion of the universe prior to the more gradual big bang expansion. • Flatness • Monopole • Horizon

#3
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String Theory

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String theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. It describes how these strings propagate through space and interact with each other.

#4
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M Theory

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Result of a contact of 2 hyperdimensional branes

#5
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Descartes Vortex Theory

Back (Answer)

whirlpool like motion

#6
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Buffon’s Collision Theory

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collision of the sun with a giant comet

#7
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Kant-Laplace Nebular Hypothesis

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a nebula begun to collapse bc of gravitational pull. as the cloud contracted it spins more rapidly.

#8
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Jeans-Jeffrey’s Tidal Hypothesis

Back (Answer)

planets were formed from the substance that were torned out of the sun

#9
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Inner Core

Back (Answer)

hottest part of earth

#10
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Lithosphere

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top part made out of dense rock iron and nickel

#11
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Asthenosphere

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bottom part plastic like fluid

#12
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Oceanic Crust

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71% sedimentary and basalt rocks

#13
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Continental Crust

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29% igneous rocks

#14
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Ptolemy

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Geocentric Model

#15
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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Heliocentric

#16
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Galileo Galilei

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named Jupiters moons

#17
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Tycho Brahe

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made careful observations

#18
Front (Question)

Johannes Keppler

Back (Answer)

Laws of Planetary Motion