Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (12th Edition)

Published by Pearson
ISBN 10: 0134074254
ISBN 13: 978-0-13407-425-2

Chapter 1 - Section 1.5 - Origin and Early Evolution of Earth - Concept Checks - Page 22: 2

Answer

$\color{blue}Requires$ : 1- Inner planets and Outer planets 2-basic differences in size and composition

Work Step by Step

-The four $\boxed{inner\; planets}$: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. -The four $\boxed{outer\; planets}$: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ $\begin{array}{lll} \\ \boxed{Description} &\boxed{ Inner\;planet} &\boxed{Outer\;planet} \\ \boxed{Size} & Small & Larger \;than\ the \; inner\; planet \\ \boxed{Composition} &Composed\; of \;heavy\; metals\; like\; Iron &  Composed\; of \;a \ high\; percentage\\ &and\; nickel \;and \;the\; elements\;of \;which\; & of\; ices,\; water,\; carbon \\ & the\;rock\; forming\; minerals\; are\;composed& dioxide,\; ammonia, \;and \\ & \;silicon\;calcium,\; sodium,\;and\;so\;forth& methane\; as\; well \;as\; rocky \\ & formed\; metallic \;and\; rocky \; clumps & and\; metallic\; debris \\ & \; that \; orbited \; the\; Sun & \\ \end{array}$
Update this answer!

You can help us out by revising, improving and updating this answer.

Update this answer

After you claim an answer you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. An editor will review the submission and either publish your submission or provide feedback.