Earths Origin

I. Reorder the next words to create logic sentences.

1. 14 billion / the big bang / After / years ago / theory

2. resulted from / The moon / strike on the Earth / a meteor / around 4.53 billion years ago.

3. half-life / is known / This amount / as the elements / of time

4. we know today / differed / from the planet / fundamentally / The young Earth

5. The movements / on the crust / occurring / by tectonic plates / are caused /, which are broken / of the
lithosophere / portions.

II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.

1. The external crust of the Earth is proportionately slim.

2. In the beginning, the Earth was a protoplanet.
3. The core of the Earth has less iron than nickel.
4. Weak magnet fields accelerate the ions in the analyzer.
5. The shape of the Earth has had its present form during the last 4.55 billion years.

III. Watch Carl Sagan video fragment from Cosmos and decide which
of the following statements are facts or opinions.

1. Within these galaxies the first generation of stars was born.

2. The interstellar gas became enriched in heavy elements.
3. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
4. Every culture celebrates the cycles of life and nature.
5. But an extraterrestrial visitor examining the differences among societies would find those differences
trivial compared to similarities.
6. We are star stuff, harvesting starlight.
7. The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich,
precisely in order, that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.