LESSON 1 Origin and Structure of The Earth

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Lesson 1:

Origin and Structure


of the Earth
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE
LESSON 1.1
How Did the Universe Come
To Be?
Rigveda
an ancient Indian Collection of more than
one thousand Vedic Sanskrit hymns
composed in 1700-1100 B.C.
The Hymn of Creation in the
Rigveda (Rigveda 10:129)
reveals that ancient Indians believed that
the universe had origin and pondered about
how and where the world, and everything
else, began.
Philolaus (470-385 B.C.)
- was the 1st to propose
that Earth was not the
center of the universe,
but central fire, around
which other celestial
objects, such as the Sun,
Moon, and other planets
revolved uniformly.
Aristarchus (310-230 B.C.)
- seconded Philolaus, but
said that the central fire
was actually the Sun.
- This claim by Aristarchus
st
was the 1 to propose
heliocentric model of
universe.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
- one of the greatest
minds in Greek Classical
Antiquity, that the center
of the cosmos is Earth.
- Aristotle’s geocentric
cosmology was widely
th
accepted until 16
century.
Claudius Ptolemy
(100-170 A.D.)
- A Greco-Egyptian
mathematician, geographer,
astrologer, and astronomer,
elaborated the geocentric
model, wherein celestial
bodies revolved around the
Earth.
During 17th and 18th centuries, the worldview of
the West was that history was directed towards the
progress.
In 1919, in few years after he introduced his
theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein announced
his cosmological view:
the universe was a finite
and static closed
four-dimensional sphere.
Einstein’s universe was
homogenous, where matter
spread smoothly
throughout the space.
BIG BANG
THEORY
BIG BANG THEORY
Cosmologist support this theory claim
that our universe is 13.7 billion years old
and they divided the history of the
universe into series of eras or time
period.
BIG BANG THEORY
The Plank Era
The Great Unified Theory
Electroweak Era
Particle Era
The Era of Nucleosynthesis
The Era of Nuclei
The Era of Atoms
The Era of Galaxies
LESSON 1.2
How Did the Solar System
Form?
1. Mass distribution
The mass of the system is not evenly
distributed. Most of the mass is
concentrated in the sun
2. Angular momentum
distribution
Similar to mass distribution, the angular
momentum (tendency rotate) is
concentrated more among the planetsin
comparison to the sun.
3. Shape and alignment of
orbits
The planets move in nearly circular
orbits that nearly align with the equator of
the sun in the same direction.
4. Chemical Composition
The planets and the sun have similar
chemical compositions, although in
varying proportions. Planets in the solar
system are subdivided into two groups:
A. the small, heavy, and nonvolatile
B. and the large, light and volatile planets.
The
Nebula
Theory
The Nebula Theory
force of gravity caused gases and
dust to contract with a densely packed
core to form our solar system about 4.6
billion years ago.
LESSON 1.3
How Did Our Planet Come to
be?
THE CRUST

THE CORE

THE MANTLE
The Crust of the Earth is composed of a great
variety of igneous, metamorphic, and
sedimentary rocks.
Earth’s mantle is a 2885-km thick shell of
rock surrounding the planets outer core,
lying beneath the thin crust, roughly
between 30 and 2900 km below the
surface.
With the thickness of 1216 km, Earth’s inner core
is mostly composed of solid iron and nickel.
surrounded by the liquid iron outer core
with a thickness of 2270 km

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