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Task 8: Asteroid Impacts - Coggle Diagram
Task 8: Asteroid Impacts
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Location: Free State, South Africa
estimated radius of 118 miles (190 kilometers), making it the world's largest known impact structure.
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Location: Ontario, Canada
Dating back 1.8 billion years, it is also one of the oldest known impact structures in the world.
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Location: South Australia, Australia
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Location: Western Australia, Australia
This crater is not exposed at the surface and has led to many discrepancies regarding its actual size.
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Location: Quebec, Canada
This impact crater formed what is now Lake Manicouagan. Even with erosion, it's considered one of the largest and best-preserved craters on Earth
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Location: North West, South Africa
Located near the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, this crater contained the fossilized remains of the meteorite that created it.
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Location: Nenetsia, Russia
Some have claimed that the impact structure actually consists of two adjacent craters: the Kara and the Ust-Kara crater.
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Location: Yucatán, Mexico
Many scientists believe that the meteorite that left this crater caused or contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Location: Siberia, Russia
Russian scientists claim that this crater site contains trillions of carats of diamonds, making it one of the largest diamond deposits in the world.
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Location: Virginia, United States
Discovered in the early 1980s, the Chesapeake Bay Crater is located approximately 125 miles (201 kilometers) from Washington, D.C.