Astronomy cscc Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

A chemoautotroph gets its energy from - chemical reactions and its carbon from its environment Abnormal forms of protein molecules called prions have one of the characteristics of living things in that they - actively respond to external changes According to Kepler's Second Law of planetary motion, a planet moves fastest in its orbit when it is - at perihelion According to the nebular theory for the formation of the solar system - planets should be rotating in the same direction as they o...

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...

Extraterrestrial life is defined to be - any kind of life found beyond the Earth Humanity has been thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life - throughout human history since the time of the ancient Greeks Astronomy has shown us that the fundamental laws of physics are - the same everywhere in the universe The discovery of any kind of life beyond the Earth would - cause a profound change in perspective of the whole of humanity Beneath the surface of which moon of Saturn ...

Cosmic Address - The galaxies we see through the Hubble Space Telescope Solar System - Sun, Planets and their moons, and anything else floating in space Galaxy - Great island of stars in space all held together by gravity and orbiting a common center Where is Earth's Solar System Located in the Milky Way? - A little over halfway between the galactic center and the edge of the galactic disk Local Group - A small cluster of galaxies Supercluster - Regions of the universe that is ti...

CSCC Exam 1 2024 with Complete Solutions Extraterrestrial life is defined to be - ANSWERSany kind of life found beyond the Earth Humanity has been thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life - ANSWERSthroughout human history since the time of the ancient Greeks Astronomy has shown us that the fundamental laws of physics are - ANSWERSthe same everywhere in the universe The discovery of any kind of life beyond the Earth would - ANSWERScause a profound change in perspectiv...