1. Summarize and compare the basic properties of Earth and the Moon.
2. Describe the consequences of gravitational interactions between Earth and the Moon.
3. Discuss how Earth’s atmosphere helps heat us as well as protect us.
4. Outline our current model of Earth’s interior structure and describe some experimental techniques used to establish this model.
5. Summarize the evidence for continental drift and discuss the physical processes that drive it.
6. Explain how dynamic events early in the Moon’s history formed its major surface features.
7. Describe the nature and origin of Earth’s magnetosphere.
8. Discuss the formation and evolution of Earth and the Moon.

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