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EARTH
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- 1the earth is divide into 3 sphers-geosphere
-hydrosphere
-atmosphere - 2GEOSPHEREmosts solid part to the earth, separate in three layers:
- core: is the earth center [made up metals ans it is temperetures are extremely high]
- mantle: is the geosphere tickest layer [the temperature in the mantle is also very high, so high that some rocks found there even melts]
-crust: is the external layer [composed of rocks ans it is where the continents are formed as well as islands and also the seabed so in a sence, we can say it's ground we walk on] - 3HYDROSPHERE- is the combinationof all the waters that exist on earth
- hydro means water: liquit [ex: rivers], solid [ex: ice], gas [ex: atmosphere] - 4ATMOSPHERE:- most external part of our planet is the atmosphere, which is a layer of air [made up of gas and water vapor]
- divide into two layers:
> troposphere: is the closest layer to the earth
> stratophers: where the ozone is located and is the most distant layer from our planet - 5FUNDAMENETAL FUNCTIONS OFF THE ATMOSPHERE:example:
supplices the oxygen so that the animals can live, filters the sun's rays... - 6—