UNIVERSE
These two phenomena provide the best evidence that Earth rotates.
What are the Foucault pendulum and the Coriolis effect
This type of star explosion can briefly outshine an entire galaxy and is often the death of a massive star
What is a supernova?
Gas giants include Jupiter, Uranus, and this planet.
What is Saturn?
This era is known as the "Age of Reptiles" and includes the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.
What is the Mesozoic Era?
This type of light shift from a star indicates that the star is moving closer to Earth.
What is a blue shift?
This is the final stage in the life cycle of the most massive stars.
What is a black hole?
This planet has the most nearly circular orbit.
What is Venus?
pg 6.ESSRT During this period the first land animals appeared.
What is the Silurian Period
Elliptical, spiral, and irregular shapes represent these large systems in the Universe made up of stars, gas, and dust.
What is a spiral-shaped galaxy with billions of stars?
This type of light shift from a star indicates that the star is moving away from Earth
What is a redshifted galaxy?
The motion that causes the constellations like Orion to be visible at Midnight from New York State in the winter but not visible in the summer
What is Earth's revolution?
The radioactive isotope is used to date the oldest rocks on Earth, uranium-bearing minerals(zircon, apatite uraninite)
What is Uranium-238
Pg3. ESSRT - This type of electromagnetic radiation has the shortest wavelength and the highest
What are gamma rays?
The process responsible for producing the energy that allows the stars of the universe to radiate visible light and or energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
This shape describes the true orbits of planets in our solar system, with the Sun at one focus.
What is an elliptical orbit?
This type of fossil is widespread, lived for a short time, and is used to date rock layers.
What is an index fossil?
This theory states that the universe began 13.7 to 15 billion years ago from a massive explosion of a single dense point known as a singularity.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
This type of star is extremely dense and small, often the final stage in the life cycle of a star like our sun.
What is a white or Black dwarf?
Pg. 2 ESSRT - This planet has a day (rotation) that is longer than its year (revolution).
What is Venus?
pg.7 "Important Geo Events NY - This mountain-building event (orogeny) occurred during the Devonian Period in New York State.
What is the Acadian Orogeny?