Answer:
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Explanation:
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The answer would be the dependent variable, because that would be your result.
Basically helps us be protected by the sun and it’s heat, it also protects us from asteroids and stuff so by the time they hit the earth it’s smaller then it was when it entered our atmosphere (srry I doing this off by memory... I learned about this years ago-)