The nebular hypothesis suggest that: a. all bodies in the solar system formed from an enormous gas cloud. b. Earth’s moon is an asteroid captured by the Earth’s gravity. c. galaxies such as the Milky Way form independent of one another. d. the Earth was formed a cosmic explosion, a “big bang”. e. the moon is derived from a protoplanet.
Which planet does it orbit? | | |Pictures of the moon Europa show large cracks. What causes these |Tectonic stress | |cracks? | | |Which moon is the largest satellite in the solar system? Which |Ganyemede, Jupiter
The spinning of a planet on its axis is called a. an orbit b. a revolution c. a rotation d. circling 14. Which of the following statements is TRUE? a. All planets revolve around the sun in a clockwise direction. b.
The rotting dead matter in the soil is called __________________. 2. A vertical section through different layers of the soil is called _______________. 3. The mixture of _____________ and humus is called the soil.
These currents could move continents laterally along the earth’s surface. Paleomagnetism further backs this up, it shows that the positions of magnetic north for 200million year old rock in different continents
After subsidence a depression with steep fault scarp sides i.e. a rift valley is formed. It is trapped in position by later pressure. Theory 2: Compressional forces a) Layers of rocks are subjected to compression forces. b) Faults develop and the outer blocks move upwards.
Ocean Conveyor Circulation 4. Thermohaline Circulation 5. CarbonicAcid 6. Radiocarbon 7. OceanTracer 8.
b. The Study of Ants c. A Pepsi Drink d. The Study of a few rocks i. A. The most logical answer is A. Geology is the study of the earth and how it works 2. The Moon’s material is from______.
Chapter 14 1. Radio galaxies have sources of unusually strong radio waves emitted on either side of the galaxy and active galaxies are spirals with small, highly luminous cores like Seyfert galaxies, they also have nuclei that are produced by matter plunging into super-massive black holes. 6. By observing the velocity of the stars that orbit the black hole or by the rotational speed of its accretion disk. 10.
Chapter 6 Homework Questions for Review 1. Why is the Earth not perfectly round? It bulges at the equator. Its shape is technically an oblate spheroid. 2.