The Solar System
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
LEEAP
What is the Law of Ellipses, Equal, Area, and Periods?
Formed by melting and cooling in the rock cycle.
What is igneous rock rock?
The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller landmasses to form the continents, which then drifted to their present locations.
What is continental drift?
The convergent plate collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates led to the development of this mountain range, the tallest on Earth.
What are the Himalayan Mountains?
The movement of a planet around its sun
What is revolution/orbit?
Earth has an aphelion distance of 152,000,000 km and an perihelion distance of 147,000,000 km. Calculate the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit around the sun.
e=(RA - RP)/(RA + RP)
What is 0.0167?
The geologic era of today
What is the Cenozoic Era
The 2 lines of evidence that gave great support to plate tectonic theory.
What is sea-floor spreading and paleomagnetism?
The process that powers the radiant energy of stars
What is nuclear fusion?
The planet Jupiter’s mean orbital radius is 5.2025 AU’s. Find Jupiter's period in Earth years.
K*a^3 = p^2
K=1
What is 11.9 Earth years?
The series of processes in which rock forms, changes from one type to another, is destroyed, and forms again by geological processes.
What is the rock cycle?
The processes that power plate tectonic motion (list 3 for 100 points each).
What are
1) mantle convection currents
2) Ridge push
3) Slab pull
Created by convergent plate motion between an oceanic and oceanic plate
2 features (150 pts each)
What are islands arcs and or an ocean trench?
The hypothesis that states that the sun and the planets developed out of the same cloud of gas and dust
What is the Nebular hypothesis?
Venus has an average distance from the Sun of 1.0821*10^11 m. Use Kepler’s 2nd Law to Calculate Venus’s average orbital velocity as it orbits the sun in meters per second.
v=((G*MSun)/r)^(1/2) MSun = 2.01* 10^30kg
G = 6.67 * 10^-11
35,111 m/s
The type of rock found along the coast of Maine and much of New England formed by changing heat and pressures.
What is metamorphic rock?
The tectonic plate west of South America.
What is the Nazca plate?
Resulting motion at a transform plate boundary results in 4 kinds of waves. List them.
What are P-Waves, S-Waves, Rayleigh Waves, and Love Waves?
The NASA Clipper mission launched on October 14, 2024 and aims to flyby this icy moon of Jupiter to determine if if has the capacity to support life. U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón dedicated a poem to this moon.
What is Europa?
Calculate the gravitational force between two 70 kg dancers who are 2 meters apart in Newtons (N).
FG = G * (M*m)/(r^2)
G = 6.67*10^-11
What is 8.17 *10^-8 N?
A hard, black, sedimentary rock that when it is burned generates about 1/3 of the Earth's energy.
What is coal?
Order the following scientist's work from oldest to newest:
Marie Tharp, Alfred Wegener, Harry Hess
The bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth's crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress
What is isostasy?