This happens frequently (about 2000 time per year), mostly small bits of rock surviving atmospheric frictional heating. Rarely, huge chunks survive to impact, causing vast craters with very damaging consequences for planet, environment, and life.
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It is only called a meteorite if it hits the Earth. Otherwise it is just a meteor. If it is just traveling through space away from our atmosphere, it is a meteoroid. Most meteors are just dust and sand. We can tell their composition, by studying their spectra as they burn up in the atmosphere.
The fastest meteors travel at about 42 km/sec (the escape velocity of the solar system). Earth's orbital speed is about 30 km/sec. So, if they are moving exactly opposite to Earth's motion in its orbit, they can be traveling at a maximum relative speed of about 72.9 km/sec as they enter the atmosphere.
They generally have no effects on life, until one impacts at which time the impactor can cause a major extinction event (sometimes killing over 90% of life on land) and thereby major changes in the direction of evolution.
most likely if a fairly large asteroid hits earth it will wipe out all signs of any life that was present.
they don't
It kills it
it provides us with resources to survive. :)
Ozone layer affect the environment. As they say, it affects the biosphere.
Stony meteorites, iron meteorites, stony-iron meteorites.
It can suffocate animals and burn or bury the trees and plants in ash
Humans affect the biosphere in numerous ways. One of the most common ways in which humans impact the biosphere is by their extraction of Natural Resources. Growth and expansion is another way in which humans affect the biosphere.
one is overhunting
the geosphere will create earthquakes that cause the biosphere to die and there homes get destroyed
the geosphere will create earthquakes that cause the biosphere to die and there homes get destroyed
It kills it
What is the difference between geosphere and biosphere?
the dust!
it warms up the planet
it warms up the planet
it provides us with resources to survive. :)
It has a very thin atmosphere, it doen't affect the moon at all. Meteorites still bump on the moon.
When an airplane crashes into it, mass fires occur.