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- Planet (8450 bytes)
- Mercury (planet) (22924 bytes)
34: ...l velocity then exceeds the rotational velocity; thus, the Sun appears to be [[retrograde motion|retro...
225: ===Potential for human colonization===
226: ... crater at the planet's pole, even a shallow one. Human activities could warm the colony to a comforta...
261: * [http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/ 'Messenger', NASA's Mercury Mission] - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
16: ...%, and its visual light albedo is even greater. Thus, despite being closer to the Sun than Earth, the...
18: ...g any surface details from the [[Optical spectrum|human eye]]. The temperature at the tops of these cl...
21: [[Image:Venus globe.jpg|thumb|left|[[Radar]] image of the surface of Venus, c...
27: ...rably younger (though still not less than several hundred million years for the most part). This sugge...
36: ...cuments]], from the [[Babylon]]ian library of [[Ashurbanipal]] around [[1600s BC|1600 BC]], is a 21-ye... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
143: [[Image:Saturn polar vortex.jpg|180px|left|thumb|Saturn's temperature emissions, the prominent h...
144: ...her features common on Jupiter; in [[1990]] the [[Hubble Space Telescope]] observed an enormous white ...
149: ...e approaching Saturn in [[2004]], the ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft found that the radio ...
159: ...ngs was not solved until [[1655]] by [[Christiaan Huygens]], using a telescope much more powerful than...
170: Compare images from the ''[[Cassini-Huygens|Cassini]]'' spacecraft taken in [[March]] an... - Neptune (planet) (18545 bytes)
156: ...so experienced difficulties in encouraging any enthusiasm in his compatriots. However, in the same yea...
197: [[Image:Neptune_rings_PIA02224.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Neptune's rings]]
236: ..., Neptune is the final home of the highly evolved human race. - Pluto (planet) (26470 bytes)
126: ...her own first name, none of which met with any enthusiasm. One young couple even wrote to ask that the...
157: ...ptive optics]], Pluto's disc can be resolved and thus its size can be directly determined.
181: Thus Pluto's discovery and Lowell's 1915 prediction w...
187: ...eptember of [[1992]] scientists began discovering hundreds of other, smaller, icy bodies in the area o...
203: ...et]]s", they are no longer considered "planets". Thus there is precedent for the sort of "demotion" th...
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- Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_99w.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
9: ...[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and beneficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato]]es, [[maize]...
10: [[Image:AC2_columbus21.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
11: ...tly or indirectly, for the deaths of tens, if not hundreds, of millions of [[indigenous people]]s, exp... - Ptolemy (10609 bytes)
1: [[image:Ptolemy.jpg|thumb|240px|Claudius Ptolemaeus, given contemporary G...
7: ... updated version of a catalogue created by Hipparchus. Its list of 48 [[constellation|constellations]]...
13: [[Image:Ptolemys_system.jpg|thumb|300px|Ptolemy System Explained. Image provided ...
25: ...lestial bodies in the [[Earth|sublunar]] sphere. Thus explanations of a sort are provided for the [[as... - Geography (8541 bytes)
1: [[Image:Environment_09.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipar...
2: ...arth. There are two main branches of Geography, [[human geography]] and [[physical geography]]. The w...
4: [[Image:Ptolemys_system.jpg|thumb|200px|left]]
5: ... They study this whether the cause is natural or human and also the consequences of those differences...
13: [[Image:Columbus_108bw.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of Christopher Columbus. Ima... - History (5192 bytes)
1: ...hat has happened, not merely all the phenomena of human life, but those of the natural world as well. ...
3: ...toriography]]). The events that occurred prior to human records are known as [[prehistory]].
5: [[Image:Ptolemys_system.jpg|thumb|200px|left]][[Knowledge]] of history is often s...
9: ... the [[genetic]] make up of pre and post-historic humans.
32: * [[Human evolution]] - Cairo (12536 bytes)
1: [[Image:Pyramids.jpg|thumb|200px|Although technically in [[Giza]], The Gre...
7: [[Image:EgyptAlQahirah.png|thumb|200px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt...
10: [[Image:ClimateCairoEgypt.PNG|thumb|200px|right|Average temperature and precipitati...
11: ...age:Cairo_Egypt_ASA_IMG_Orbit_12013_20040617.jpg|thumb|left|200px|This Envisat ASAR Wide-Swath radar m...
12: [[Image:Large_Cairo_Landsat.jpg||thumb|left|A simulated-color satellite image of Cairo... - Continent (6440 bytes)
1: [[Image:Continents_12.jpg|thumb|250px|]]
18: [[Image:Cross_section_Earth2.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Image provided by [http://classroomc...
32: ...t model of the ice age: Africa-Eurasia-America, Sahul, and Antarctica.
36: ... You may also find the term [[Australasia]] and Sahul.
45: ...ent". The other large geologic continents are [[Sahul]] (Australia-New Guinea) and [[Antarctica]], but... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
1: [[Image:Prime_meridian_2.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<i>The Prime Meridian, Greenwich</i>]]
4: ...he United States|U.S. President]] [[Chester A. Arthur]], 41 delegates from 25 nations met in [[Washing...
14: [[image:TimeZonesSmall-non.jpg|260px|thumb|right|''Red line down the middle is the Prime M... - Geology (12007 bytes)
10: ...hell]]s in a geological [[stratum]] in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that t...
16: ...olcanic]] origins of this part of France. [[James Hutton]] recorded his ''Theory of the Earth'' in the...
20: [[James Hutton]] is often viewed as the first modern geologi...
22: Followers of Hutton were known as ''[[Plutonism |Plutonists]]'' b...
26: ... events and remained unchanged thereafter. Though Hutton believed in uniformitarianism, the idea was n... - Glaciology (3787 bytes)
- Lithosphere (1918 bytes)
- Crust (geology) (1183 bytes)
1: [[Image:Earth-crust-cutaway-english.png|thumb|350px|[[Earth]] cutaway from [[core]] to [[exos... - Tectonic plate (1989 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tectonic plates.png|thumb|350px|The tectonic plates of the world were map...
8: The churning of the asthenosphere carries the plates alon... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
6: [[Image:Tectonic plates.png|thumb|380px|The tectonic plates of the world were map...
15: [[Image:Tectonic_plate_boundaries.png|thumb|right|350px|Three types of plate boundary.]]
108: ...had "roots" was confirmed by [[George B. Airy]] a hundred years later during study of Himalayan gravit...
125: ...o convincing geologic mechanism to produce such a huge, sudden expansion. Most geologists believe that...
127: ...ld oceanic lithosphere occurring simultaneously. Thus, Hess' ideas neatly explained why the Earth does... - Earth (30908 bytes)
7: ... dominant [[Sentience|sentient species]] is the [[human]] (''Homo sapiens sapiens'').
14: ...[Mariana Trench]], at 10,911 m below sea level). Thus the Earth is an oblate spheroid within a [[toler...
68: ...nificant or tend to bind to lighter elements and thus remain in the crust (see: [[felsic|felsic materi...
74: [[Image:Earth-crust-cutaway-english.png|thumb|350px|left|Earth cutaway from core to exosphere...
80: ...uni-jena.de/chemie/geowiss/geodyn/poster2.html]. Thus, the upper mantle can only flow very slowly. - Volcano (27295 bytes)
1: [[Image:Volcano2.jpg|thumb|225px|left|Volcano Illustration provided by [ht...
3: [[Image:Mahameru-volcano.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Smoking Bromo and Semeru volcanoes ...
9: [[Image:Mauna loa.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Eruption of [[Mauna Loa]], March [[...
14: [[Image:Shield volcano.jpg|thumb|Shield volcano structure]]
15: ...]] are examples of places where volcanoes extrude huge quantities of lava that gradually build a wide ... - Mountain (4538 bytes)
18: ...conditions at the top than at the base, and will thus have different [[life zone]]s at different altit...
20: Mountains are not generally favored for human habitation; the weather is harsher, less food ... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
6: [[Image:Al-Idrisi's world map.JPG|200px|thumb|right|This map, made by Arab geographer [[al-Id...
16: [[Image:Eertvelt, Santa Maria.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''The [[Santa Maria (ship)|Santa Mar...
26: ...le to trade with the Spanish ships. The islands thus became the focus of colonization efforts. It was...
28: ...nd the [[Spice Islands]] by travelling west, and thus placing them in the Spanish sphere. The expediti...
31: ... control all the major trade routes of the east. Thus forts and colonies were established on the [[Gol... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
1: [[Image:LocationAntarctica.png|thumb|250px|World map showing location of Antarctica]...
2: [[Image:Antarctica satellite orthographic.jpg|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of Antarctica...
8: ...st average [[altitude]], and the lowest average [[humidity]] of any continent on Earth, as well as the...
20: [[Image:Antarctica Map.png|thumb|280px|Region around Antarctica]]
29: [[Image:antarctica.jpg|thumb|230px|right|Territorial claims of Antarctica]] - Supercontinent (3497 bytes)
13: ... flow of heat from the [[Earth]]'s interior, and thus cause the [[asthenosphere]] to overheat. Eventua... - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
69: ...ections were held in 1979, which were won by [[Shehu Shagari]].
210: ... Catholics]] are the largest denomination, but [[Church of Nigeria|Anglican]], [[Pentecostal]] and oth...
274: *[[Catholic Church in Nigeria]]
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