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| 1. | =1 inch per year (3 Words) |
| 2. | Nuggets of material that melted and cooled quickly |
| 3. | DNA life may have arisen from an earlier _____ world |
| 5. | Gradual rearranging of continents (2 Words) |
| 7. | The more radioactive the ______ the half life |
| 8. | Occurred during first billion years of solar system (3 Words) |
| 10. | Life from non-living matter |
| 11. | Thrive in toxic waste dumps |
| 15. | Simulate a energized water pool with early atmosphere gases that combined methane, ammonia, hydrogen and mixed in water (3 Words) |
| 16. | In the 2010 Miller Urey experiment 23 amino acids were produced with it being the first appearance of these containing amino acids |
| 17. | If a nucleus has too many or too few neutrons it is unstable to this (2 Words) |
| 20. | How Thermophiles survive, unique not warped shape |
| 21. | This became our Sun, the planets, the asteroids, the comets, the entire solar system. Collapsing rotating interstellar cloud (2 Words) |
| 22. | Oldest Eon on Earth |
| 24. | Volcanoes, mountain building, earthquakes, folding, faults are the result of this (2 Words) |
| 25. | Strip atmosphere with charged particles (2 Words) |
| 27. | Gradual compression of sediments creates this rock |
| 29. | Radiation renders this |
| 31. | Oldest rocks known |
| 32. | Organisms that survive in extremely hot water. Hot springs, deep sea vents |
| 36. | Layered rocks, colonies of microbes |
| 40. | Earth seeded by life from elsewhere in the universe |
| 41. | Formed the first oceans and atmosphere |
| 43. | How the Earth is protected from UV Radiation (2 Words) |
| 44. | Extremeophiles live without oxygen, making them this |
| 46. | On top of mantle, where we live |
| 47. | Distance = 3 AU (2 Words) |
| 49. | Type of Rock Produced by undersea volcanoes |
| 52. | The study of Earth |
| 54. | _____ current will produce a magnetic field |