Age of the Earth
The Era of Dinosaurs.
What is the Mesozoic?
What is visible light (colors in order)
ROYGBIV
Which planet has the 3rd shortest day (rotation)?
Netpune
Where is a meteor located?
It is a space rock burning in our atmosphere.
Eons, Eras, Periods, Ages and Epochs.
What are the increments of time in the Geologic Time Scale?
What waves are used by cell phones?
Radio Waves
What kind of nebula leads to a White Dwarf?
Planetary Nebula
What is one thing that all inner planets have in common?
They are small, solid and rocky.
What keeps the asteroid belt where it is?
Gravitational pull from the Sun and from Jupiter.
A catastrophic event that killed off most of life on the planet.
What is The Great Dying?
What kind of electromagnetic waves come from the sun?
Ultraviolet waves
What life stage of a star has 3 options after it?
A supernova
What are the main 2 factors that allow for life on Earth?
What is diffraction?
A fossil that existed during a limited time that is helpful to figuring out the age of the surrounding rocks.
What is an index fossil?
Microwaves are lower energy than visible light waves.
What is happening inside of a star (what elements are combining to form a new element).
Nuclear Fusion (Hydrogen atoms collide to make Helium)
What are some factors that we need to overcome to allow for life on Mars?
Gravity, Water, Temperature, Oxygen, Food, Electricity
What impacts the length of a planet's revolution?
Distance from the sun (the farther from the sun, the bigger the orbit).
The current era.
The Cenozoic Era is?
Red light has a wavelength of 620nm - 750nm.
Blue light has a wavelength of 450nm - 495nm.
Which has higher energy?
Blue light
What is the star we talked about that is a Red Giant?
Betelguese
Which 3 planets have rings?
Uranus, Saturn, Neptune
What is an amplitude?
How big (how high off the 0 line a waveform goes) a wave is.