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Origins
The Sun
The Solar System
Planetary Geology
Do Nows
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The changing phases of the moon were recorded in Africa by etching notches into this bone.
What is the Ishango bone?
100
The outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere
What is the corona?
100
This planet rotates backwards.
What is Venus?
100
In this process gravity separates materials according to density.
What is differentiation?
100
Three ways the Earth is moving
What is rotating,revolving,and moving through space with our solar system
200
This structure used to mark the seasons was located in the Aztec city of Tenochititlan.
What is the Templo Mayor?
200
By this process the sun produces light and heat.
What is nuclear fusion?
200
This planet is the smallest of the eight planets.
What is Mercury?
200
These two planets have the largest cores.
What are Earth and Venus?
200
Cygnus,Lyra, and Aquilla are three constellations located in this asterism.
What is the Summer triangle?
300
These people developed a sun dagger spiral on the top of fajada butte in Chaco Canyon,New Mexico.
Who are the Anasazi?
300
These short lived intense storms are produced y dramatic changes in the sun's magnetic field.
What are solar flares?
300
This planet is named after the Roman god of war.
What is Mars?
300
This field force protects a planet from the solar wind.
What is a magnetosphere?
300
Aquilla carried these for Zues to hurtle at his enemies.
What are thunderbolts?
400
Johanne Kepler expanded on his work and discovered the planetary orbits are elliptical.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
400
The balance between the sun's outward pressure from gas and it's inward gravity is knowm as
What is gravitational equilibrium?
400
This group of asteroids remains ahead or behind Jupiter by 60 degrees.
What are trojan asteroids?
400
In this process energy is released in the form of heat from Earth's interior.
What is radioactive decay?
400
This was the one condition Orpheus must meet in order to rescue his wife from the underworld.
What is he could not look back?
500
Planets moved around Earth on these small circles that turned around larger circles.
What are epicycles?
500
This layer of the sun emits most of the sun's ultraviolet light.
What is the chromosphere?
500
This moon is the only major moon in the solar system that revolves around its planet in a counterclockwise orbit.
What is Triton?
500
This energy was created when the kinetic energy of colliding planetesimals was converted to thermal energy.
What is the Heat of Accretion?
500
In this location Andromeda is located with respect to pegasus.
What is by the 2 hind legs?