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100

A sealed, rigid container contains three gases: 28.0g of Nitrogen, 40.0g of Argon, and 36.0g of water vapor. If the total pressure exerted by the gases is 2.0 atm, what is the partial pressure of the nitrogen?

A. 0.33 atm

B. 0.40 atm

C. 0.50 atm

D. 2.0 atm 

C. 0.50 atm

100

Is a year for an Earthling the same length of time as a year for and alien that buys a home on Saturn? explain

What is no, a year on Saturn is 29.5 Earth years

100
Perth, Australia, lies in the southern hemisphere. In what month does Perth have the day with the greatest amount of sunlight?
What is December
100
What season starts in the Southern Hemisphere when the southern part of Earth is closer to the Sun?
What is summer
100
Colonel Rasmussen, commander of the orbiting space station "Stanley", has been in space so long she has forgotten what date it is, or even what month. She can observe the Earth, however, and she notices that the North Pole is pointing farther from the Sun than she has seen it for the past six months. What month of the year is it in California?
What is December
200
Red dwarfs are stars with slightly less mass than are sun. Is it likely that a red dwarf can become a neutron star? explain
What is no, red dwarfs can only become white dwarfs
200
describe a pattern between a planets distance from the Sun and the time it takes that planet to revolve around the sun.
What is the closer a planet is to a sun, the shorter the year. The farther away it is, the longer the year
200
The Antarctic circle is another imaginary line. What is it's latitude?
What is 66 degrees South
200
Suppose that aliens drag the planet Mars to half its present distance from the Sun. What would happen?
What is the Martian year would shorten
200
On a given day, the equator receives 12 hours of daylight, and the North Pole receives 24 hours of daylight. What is the best estimate of the amount of sunlight that New Jersey will receive the same day?
What is 14 hours
300
The word "planet" means "wanderer" in Greek. What would you see if you went out every night for a month and looked at the planets.
What is the planets would move against the background of the stars
300
think back to the periodic table in on page 99. Where do the elements that make up the comets fall on the periodic table.
What is comets are small chunks of dust and rock held together by ice. There are 20. Carbon is in group 14, hydrogen is in group 1, and oxygen is in group 16.
300
When does the Antarctic circle experience 24 hours of daylight?
What is in December? Phases are one of the different shapes of the moon as it progresses through a one-month cycle
300
which of the following has the greatest influence on the tides of the Earth's ocean's?
What is the position of the Moon relative to Earth
300
Describe two differences between the planet Mercury and the planet Saturn.
What is Mercury is closer to the sun and is a terrestial planet compared to Saturn.
400
suppose you have a ball tied to the end of a long string. You twirl the ball around and around in a big circle. If you are the sun and the ball is the planet, what force does the string represent.
What is gravity
400
every year, the Earth's gravity pulls tiny comets into the upper atmosphere, where friction melts them. What do you think happens to the water in those comets?
What is the Earth's water supply is increasing
400
About how many times does the Moon orbit the Earth in one year?
What is 13 times
400
which quality do all the plants in the solar system share?
What is they all have elliptical orbits
400
the imaginary line between the North and South Poles about which the Earth rotates
What is axis
500
using terms revolve, rotate, and axis, describe why one year on Earth is about 365 days long and why one day on Earth is 24 hours long.
What is it takes Earth 24 hours to make a complete rotation on its axis. As Earth rotates, it is also revolving once around the sun to make 365 days in a year
500
Is a sunset an effect of the Earth's rotation or its revolution?
What is the sunset is an effect on Earth's rotation
500
Suppose a new moon occurs on January 14th. Predict the date of the next full moon.
What is January 28th
500
why does the same side of the Moon always face the Earth?
What is the combination of the Moon's rotation and its revolution keep the same side always facing Earth
500
the degree to which the Earth's axis is not perpendicular to the plane of it's orbit
What is axial tilt