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You should be familiar with the following terms:
- regolith
- crater peak
- double rimmed
- crumpled ridges
- late heavy bombardment
- greenhouse effect
- water (H2O)
- oxygen molecule (O2)
- nitrogen molecule (N2)
- carbon dioxide (CO2)
- sulfur dioxide (SO2)
- methane (CH4)
- shield volcano
- cyanobacteria
- jet stream
- Goldilocks zone
- habitable zone
- continental drift theory
- Alfred Wegener
- Marie Tharp
- Bruce C. Heezen
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- plate tectonics
- Ring of Fire
- supercontinent
- Pangaea
- James Van Allen
- Van Allen radiation belts
- geomagnetic storm
- maria
- lunar highlands
- basalt
- lava tubes
- Giovanni Schiaparelli
- Percival Lowell
- Herbert George (H.G.) Wells
- George Orson Welles
- pareidolia
- Olympus Mons
- Martian dust storm
- sublimation
- dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide
- Phobos
- Deimos
- primary (P) wave, pressure wave, sound wave
- secondary (S) wave, shear wave
- epicenter
- hypocenter
- shadow zone
- crust
- lithosphere
- outer mantle
- transition zone
- inner mantle
- fluid outer core
- solid outermost inner core
- solid innermost inner core
- silicates
- olivine
- wadsleyite
- ringwoodite
- magma
- hotspot
- partial melt
- fluid metallic core
- exponential function
- Albert Allen Bartlett
- Anthropocene
- SARS-CoV-2
- Covid-19
- weather
- climate
- global climate change
- global warming
- critical thinking
- global temperature anomaly
- nitrous oxide (N2O)
- ozone (O3)
- Medieval Warm Period
- Little Ice Age
- ice core
- fossil fuel
- drivers (forcings) of climate change
- butterfly effect
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Kyoto Protocol
- Paris Climate Agreement