Predicting Orbital Motion
The law of orbital motion relating the sidereal periods of orbit and the cubes of their mean distance.
What is Kepler's Third Law of Planetary Motion?
The property of matter that makes all convection cycles work.
What is Density?
The unit of time require to decay a sample radioisotope by 50%.
What is a Half Life?
The destructive force that shapes the planet's surface.
What is Erosion?
The format for a formal hypothesis.
A quantitative measure for how elliptical an orbit is.
What is eccentricity?
The location at which convection cycles cause lateral plate motion.
What is the Midocean Ridge?
The isotope with a half-life of 5730 years.
What is Carbon-14?
The area in which new mountain ranges form from convergent continental plates.
What is a Suture Zone?
The three sections in a good procedure.
What are Setup, Data Collection, and Data Analysis?
The numerator in the formula for calculating eccentricity.
What is the Minor Axis?
The location at which geologic matter is recycled.
What is a Subduction Zone?
The age of the oldest rocks in the ocean.
What is 200 million years?
The process of leaving eroded sediments in a new location.
What is Deposition?
The most frequently forgotten piece of a materials list.
The denominator in the formula for calculating the force of gravity.
What is the Radius Squared?
The type of plate boundary that results in frequent formation of earthquakes without engaging much with magma.
What is a Transform Plate Boundary?
The type of crust with the greatest density.
What is Oceanic Crust?
The geological formation that causes island chains to form in the middle of tectonic plates.
What is a Hotspot Volcano?
The variables that must be kept consistent.
What are Control Variables?
The planet with the greatest eccentricity.
What is Mercury?
The plate that is "under" South America.
What is the Nazca Plate?
The atom formed by the released particle in alpha decay.
What is a Helium atom?
The colossal system responsible for most terrestrial volcanoes and eartquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Element number 18.
What is Argon?