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How the Earth Was Made: Birth of the Earth

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Molten, glowing sphere being pelted by rocks. Caption: was the fledgling Earth.

As shown on the History Channel. Four and a half billion years ago, the Earth formed from dust in space to become a molten ball of rock orbiting the Sun. Travels back in time to investigate how the fledgling planet survived a cataclysmic cosmic collision with another world, how molten rock solidified to land, how our oceans filled with water, and how life arrived on Earth. Geologists study the oldest rocks on Earth and meteorites from outer space to solve the geological mystery of all--the birth of the Earth.

Media Details

Runtime: 44 minutes 3 seconds

Steeply sloping walls of layered, red sedimentary rock. Caption: the Grand Canyon remains the most famous of them all.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 1
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A volcano emits ash and smoke, as seen from a city street. Caption: (narrator) It's the nightmare scenario that everyone fears.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 2
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Molten, glowing sphere being pelted by rocks. Caption: was the fledgling Earth.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 3
44 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Sand dunes. Caption: The wind that builds them also blows them away,
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 4
44 minutes 51 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
A rocky sheer cliff with a river cascading down the face of it, as seen from above. Caption: is shaping this magnificent landscape.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 5
44 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Illustration of a plate of Earth's crust being pushed beneath a second plate. Caption: (narrator) As the two plates moved towards each other,
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 6
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Lava shooting into the air. Caption: pouring out of volcanoes all around the Ring of Fire.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 7
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Tall, snowy, and rocky mountain as seen from below. Caption: Is Everest shrinking or growing?
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 8
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Several volcanoes oozing lava and emitting smoke. Caption: They were pushed back by these mountains of fire.
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 9
44 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Lava field in foreground with evergreen trees and snowy mountain in background. Caption: Southwest of St. Helens, he investigates an area
How the Earth Was Made
Season 2 / Ep 10
44 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12

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    Joanna W. (Newton, AL)
    January 16th, 2019 at 10:25 AM

    Great tool for teaching how the Earth was formed.