EARTH 119 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Aurora, Sulfur Dioxide, Stony-Iron Meteorite
27 Sep 2016
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Earth 119- chapter 2: journey to the center of the earth. Oort cloud: a cloud of icy objects, left over from solar system formation, that orbit the. Sun in a region outside of the heliosphere. Kuiper belt: a diffuse ring of icy objects, remnants of solar system formation, that orbit the sun outside the orbit of neptune. Asteroids: one of the fragments of solid material, left over from planet formation or produced by collision of planetesimals, that reside between the orbits of mars and. Comet: a ball of ice and dust, probably remaining from the formation of the solar. Magnetic field: the region affected by the force emanating from a magnet. Dipole: a magnetic field with a north and a south pole, like that of a bar magnet. Atmosphere: a layer of gases that surrounds a planet. Earth system: the global interconnecting web of physical physical and biological phenomena involving the solid earth, the hydrosphere, and the atmosphere.
