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Crash Course Big History: The Solar System & the Earth
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愁容骑士 posted on 2015/01/01Ever wondered how our solar system and Earth came to be? This Crash Course Big History episode dives deep into the formation of our cosmic neighborhood and our planet, packed with fascinating details about the Hadean Eon and the Giant Impact that formed the Moon. You'll pick up some advanced vocabulary and complex sentence structures while exploring the origins of everything!
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solar system
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- Noun
- The collection of planets and their moons in orbit around a star, together with other material such as asteroids, comets, and dust.
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- Proper Noun
- The planet on which we live; the world.
- Uncountable Noun
- The substance of the land surface; soil.
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- Uncountable Noun
- The star that provides light and heat to Earth.
- The light and warmth received from the sun.
plate tectonics
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- A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying mantle.
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