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One meter equals _______km.
.001
100
What is the definition for Galaxy?
A huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, and dust and gas bound together by gravity.
100
Earth is in what phase during a lunar eclipse?
Full moon.
100
A day on Earth is determined by earth's what?
Rotation.
100
What theory did copernicus come up with?
Heliocentric
200
10 cm=______mm.
100mm
200
What is the defination of a Nebula?
A large cloud of gas and dust in space, spread out in immense volume.
200
Angle of rays, Length of days nothing to do with how far away. This Causes what?
Seasons
200
How much is earth tilted?
23.5 degrees
200
What theory did Ptolemy come up with?
Geocentric
300
12km_______m.
12,000 m.
300
What is the definition of a Protostar?
A contracting cloud of Gas and dust with enough mass to form a star?
300
When you are determing the distance from us to the planets, using your thumb one eye at a time, what are you using?
Parallax.
300
What is going on inside the earth that causes plates to move?
Convection currents in the mantle.
300
What theory did Tycho Brahe support?
Geocentric.
400
1cm=_______km.
.00001 km.
400
Data that cannot be measured.
Qualitative data.
400
The greenhouse explains why _______ is hotter than _____.
Venus, Mercury.
400
Magnetic stripes of the seafloor as well as the age of the seafloor is evidence of what?
Seafloor Spreading.
400
What theory did Johannes Kepler support?
Heliocentric?
500
18,000 km=______cm.
1800000000cm.
500
What is the definition of Waning?
When the elimnated part of the moon is getting smaller.
500
A space rock falling from space to Earth goes in what order?
Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite
500
A plate boundary in which earthquakes happen around mountains.
Transform
500
Who is the only non-scientist that beileved in the heliocentric theory?
Isaac Newton.