Planetary rotation Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PHSC 121 Final Exam Questions And Answers 4 points of the scientific method - Answer -observation, testing, assumption, hypothesis Our solar system consists of ______ and has ___ major planets - Answer -the Sun and all the objects that orbit the Sun / 8 Why isn't Pluto considered a planet? - Answer -It does not dominate its orbit Light from the Sun takes ___ to reach Earth - Answer -8 minutess The Kuiper Belt is located __________________ - Answer -beyond the orbit of Neptune ...

In the process of nuclear fusion - two or more nuclei fuse or stick together to form a heavier nucleus whose combined mass is slightly less than the original nucleus Beneath the surface of which moon of Saturn is there evidence for the existence of a subsurface ocean of liquid water? - Enceladus Apparent retrograde motion occurs when a planet appears to - move westward with respect to background stars A chemoautotroph gets its energy from - chemical reactions and its carbon from its enviro...

UCLA Eps Sci 9 Final Exam Questions With 100% Correct Answers Mars takes about ______ to go around the Sun. a) Three Earth years b) Ten Earth years c) Two Earth years d) 60 Earth days - answerc) Two Earth years Venus has a period of rotation of _______ a) 2,000 Earth days b) 243 Earth days c) 500 Earth days d) 1 Earth day - answerb) 243 Earth days Venus has an orbital period around the Sun of _____ a) Five Earth years b) 225 Earth days c) 900 Earth days d) A millennium - answerb) 225 E...

Aside from Earth, which other planet shows evidence of plate tectonics? - None of the above Continuous bombardment of a planetary surface by many large asteroids would have resulted in - A magma ocean From where does Earth's magnet field arise? - The liquid iron outer core The ______ energy lost by the inward movement of nickel-iron within a differentiating molten planetary body would be converted first into _______ energy and then into ______ energy. - gravitational, kinetic, thermal Tr...

Does earth's axis point in the same or different direction all year round? - ️️same direction. During the spring and fall equinox the sun tilts from the sun or towards? - ️️from the sun. During the summer solstice the sun tilts away or towards the sun? - ️️towards. During the winter solstice the sun tilts away or towards the sun? - ️️away. From our view in Boulder can we see stars near the south celestial pole? - ️️No. From our view in Boulder what kind of stars are nea...

1) The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram plots ________ against the spectral type or temperature. A) brightness or apparent magnitude B) mass C) distance D) size or density E) luminosity or absolute magnitude 1) 2) Which event marks the birth of a star? A) formation of the planetary nebula B) collapse of an interstellar cloud C) formation of a photosphere D) instability in an interstellar cloud E) fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium atoms 2) 3) Dr. Smith believes that the Hubble constan...

wx 201 test 2 erau exam questions with correct answers station pressure - Answer-the actual air pressure computed at the observing station sea level pressure - Answer-the standard level of pressure 29.92 inches ideal gas law - Answer-the relationship PV=nRT, which describes the behavior of an ideal gas mercury barometer - Answer-consists of a glass tube open at the bottom end and partially filled with mercury barometric pressure - Answer-the pressure due to the weight of the atmos...

1) The rotation curve of the Milky Way suggests that the majority of the mass of the Milky Way lies farther out than the Sun's orbit. A) True B) False 1) 2) Which of the following best describes the evolutionary track followed on the H-R diagram for the most massive stars (before the star undergoes a Type II supernova)? A) horizontally right, then forms a clockwise loop B) horizontally right, diagonally to lower left, then horizontally right C) diagonally to lower right, then vertical,...

USCG Auxiliary Test Review With Updated and Correctly Answered Questions 100% Pass A+ Graded What drives the weather? - CORRECT ANSWER-the Sun and Earth's rotation Specific heat of a substance is... - CORRECT ANSWER-the rate of temperature increased for a given energy input The amount of solar energy that is absorbed by the Earth's surface is reduced due to... - CORRECT ANSWER--reflection from the clouds -the nature of the surface What heats faster? - CORRECT ANSWER-Land The la...

station pressure - Answer-the actual air pressure computed at the observing station sea level pressure - Answer-the standard level of pressure 29.92 inches ideal gas law - Answer-the relationship PV=nRT, which describes the behavior of an ideal gas mercury barometer - Answer-consists of a glass tube open at the bottom end and partially filled with mercury barometric pressure - Answer-the pressure due to the weight of the atmosphere; also called air pressure or atmospheric pressure ...