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    Earth is living and breathing planet, it takes a lot of energy to keep the Earth health, to keep all its inhabitants functioning. Earth is a special planet because it is the only know planet that can allow life to thrive. Earth receive a tremendous amount of energy from the Sun, solar energy is necessary for life on Earth. A planet filled with life needs water, it is one of the essential pieces for all humans, animals, and plants. Earth is cover primarily by water, a unique substance that keeps

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    that rotates around the earth. It is not classified as a planet because it rotates around a larger object that is not a star. It also has no atmosphere. There are eight phases of the moon. New Moon is the first stage of the moon. The moon is completely covered from the sun but the earth. The moon reflects the light of the sun to make it glow. That's why we can see it on earth. Then there is the waxing crescent.

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    Mankind has always pondered over the question of, “Where’d we come from? How did we come to be? Who or what is responsible for the forming the earth?” Men have always tried to create stories and answers to creation. One of the more popular and classic fiction accounts of creation is presented in Book I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Of course there are stark and crucial differences between Ovid’s creation and the truths of creation told in Genesis, but there are many similarities amongst the differences

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    The Movie WALL-E

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    The movie WALL-E is set about 700 years into the Earth’s future. The Earth was shown to be completely contaminated so that no more plant and animal could survive. The last of the surviving human population were safely taken into the spaceship Axiom, where they were originally planned to live for 5 years until Earth becomes habitable again. WALL-Es, which are Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth class robots were tasked to perform the clean-up operation. However, the clean-up operation was unsuccessful

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    loss of numerous lives. Some scientists argue that the Earth will soon be unsuitable to inhabit because the Earth is being heavily polluted and the natural resources are being excessively consumed. For instance, air pollution, which is caused by car exhaust or fumes from factories, damages the Earth 's atmosphere, being responsible for the decline in the number of many species. Now, the consumption of crude oil is around 90 million barrels per day worldwide and it is certain that the consumption at

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    In the beginning there was chaos and Orana, the goddess of the sun, was born. She is the ruler who formulated what is now known as the core of the earth. She gathered many stars and crushed them together to create a glowing rock-like sphere. Orana then decided to have the core revolve around her so she could watch her creation. While doing this she ran into Lunasta, god of the moon. Lunasta moved the moon to have it revolve around the core too. So instead Orana and Lunasta decided to put the sun

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    his lodge which stood on the banks of a frozen river. The days were not as frigid as they had been in the last three months. His fire was dying, yet the air was not so cold. He was ancient and solitary. Age had turned his long hair a snowy white, and caused every bone in his body to creak and groan as he stood up to stroke the glowing embers of his fire. The days passed slowly as he listened to the sound of the snow whirling outside. One day a beautiful young woman entered his lodge. Her deep, dark

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    Mary Chang ESS 102 AJ Research Paper January 29, 2015 Space Debris In the near future, humans on Earth experience famine, drought, and sandstorms. Days feel longer, colder, and drier. The only way to save the human race is to send the few surviving humans to the planet Mars. The travel to Mars has taken about a year in the past, but with advanced technology, it will only take the FiftyFifty spaceship to Mars less than a week. Applying the physical concept of Newton’s Third Law of motion, for a

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    new or full moon that occurs when the moon is within 90 percent of its closest approach to Earth in a normal orbit, the super moon now refers more broadly to a full moon that is closer to Earth than average. The Moon's Orbit Full moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the moon's orbit. Since the moon’s orbit is elliptical, one side (the perigee) is about 50,000 kilometers (30,000 miles) closer to Earth than the other (the apogee). Nearby perigee moons are about 14 percent bigger and 30 percent

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    Venus Craters

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    called Earth. The Magellan mission assisted in providing understanding toward the impact of volcanoes and tectonism on Venus’s surface. Most of Venus’s surface is covered by volcanic debris. The small number of craters documented by the Magellan missions indicates that Venus is comparably young. Venus is thought to be less than eight hundred million years old. Although Venus has signs of plate tectonics, they are very different from the plate tectonics on Earth. The plate tectonics on Earth are typically

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