Earth Science
Name the remaining three Earth systems:
1. geosphere
hydrosphere
atmosphere
biosphere
The sun contains about how much of the solar systems mass?
99%
What shape is the galaxy?
disk-like
Refracting and reflecting
How did the solar system form?
The collapse of an interstellar cloud
Name the layers of the Earth
crust
upper mantle
lower
inner core
outer core
What are the three layers of the sun's atmosphere?
Photosphere, chromosphere, corona
Where are the oldest stars in the Milky Way located?
nuclear bulge and halo
The electromagnetic spectrum is arranged according to frequency and ___________.
wavelength
Name the terrestrial planets and give me the other name for terrestrial.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Inner Planets
This type of scientist studies Earth's history, glacial movements, rocks etc.
Geologist
YOU MUST GET BOTH CORRECT
What is the difference between fission and fusion? Which one creates energy?
Fusion is the combining of lightweight atomic nuclei and fission is the splitting.
Fusion
Put these in order from largest to smallest.
1. planets
2. superclusters
3. galaxies
4. solar system
2. Galaxies
3. solar system
4. Planets
These are the smooth dark spots on the surface of the moon.
Maria
These planets are generally colder, have ring systems, and satellites.
The gas giant planets
This includes all organisms on Earth as well as the environments that they live in
Biosphere
What is a binary star and how many stars in the sky are either binary or members of multiple-star systems?
When 2 stars are gravitationally bound together. More than half of the stars in the sky are ether binary or members of multiple-star systems.
What theory explains the expansion of the Universe?
The Big Bang
How do they theorize the moon formed?
As a result of a collision between the Earth and a mars-sized object ( Impact Theory)
This is the seeming backwards motion of a planet
Retrograde motion
Explain how water cycles through all of Earth's systems( Biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere).
Water from the hydrosphere enters the atmosphere and then falls to the biosphere and then soaks into the geosphere.
The formation of a star begins with dust and gas in cloud form. What is this called?
A nebula
Edwin Hubble found what out by studying the redshift and distance of galaxies?
The universe is expanding and the farther away a galaxy is the faster it is moving away
The name for the layer of loose, ground-up rock on the moons surface.
regolith
What is the largest planet in the solar system
Jupiter