How Earth Formed

The oldest rocks on Earth came from __________________________________.

• The ocean

• Space

• Underground

• The Grand Canyon

What do the different layers of the Earth tell us about its history?

• At one point, the Earth melted

• It has gravity

• the heaviest stuff is at the surface

• Earth was formed from meteors

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

How old is the Earth?

• 4.6 million years old

• 4.6 thousand years old

• 4.6 billion years old

• 3 hundred years old

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Where do scientists theorize the water here on Earth came from?

• The ocean

• The center of the Earth

• The Sun

• Meteorites and asteroids (from space)

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

The cloud of gas and dust that our solar system formed from is called a...

• Nebula

• Oort Cloud

• Space Jam

• Asteroid Belt

What is the current idea for the formation of the moon?

• It formed from random stuff floating in space

• Another planet crashed into the Earth and the debris formed the moon.

• The Earth ejected its own core, creating the moon.

• It formed from its own nebula

Where did the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere first come from?

• trees

• animals like fish in the oceans

• bacteria in the ocean

• asteroids and meteorites from space