Planets and the Solar System
This planet formed 4.5 - 4.6 billion years ago.
What is Earth?
NaCl
What is sodium chloride?
__ H + ___ O2 ----> ___ H2O
4 H + 1 O2 ----> 2 H2O
These are forces that wear landforms down
What are destructive forces?
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What is potential energy?
The order of the planets in our solar system.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
AsO6
Arsenic hexoxide
__Ca + __O2 ----> ___CaO
2 Ca + O2 ---> 2 CaO
These are forces cause landforms to grow.
What are constructive forces?
= 1/2mv2
What is kinetic energy?
This planet is known as the Red Planet because iron minerals in the soil oxidize, or rust, causing the soil and atmosphere to look red.
What is Mars?
AuCl4
Gold tetrachloride
__N2 + ___H2 -----> __NH3
N2 + 3 H2 --- > 2 NH3
The only constant on earth.
What is change?
Unit used to measure energy.
What is a joule?
The third brightest object after the Sun and Moon, was named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. It’s the only planet named after a female god.
What is Venus?
P2S7B9
Diphosphorus heptasulfur nonaboride
__ Cu2O + ___ C ---> __ Cu + CO2
2 Cu2O + C --- > 4 Cu + CO2
Water, wind, ice, and gravity are ______
What are destructive forces?
1 AU (astronomical unit)
What is 93 million miles?
NASA's Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited this planet up close. It flew past in 1989 on its way out of the solar system.
What is Neptune?
AgO3
Silver trioxide
___ HOH + ___ N3 ----> ___ N3H2O
1 HOH + 1 N3 ----> 1 N3H2O
The mountain range that runs through much of the ocean basin
What is the Mid-Ocean Ridge?
1 lightyear
6 trillion miles