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EAPS Exam 4, Exam Review Questions and answers, rated A+ How much of the solar system's mass resides in the Sun. - -99.86% How much of the mass of the planets in our solar system resides in Jupiter - -70% Which are the terrestrial planets. - -Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars Why our Moon creates a perfect eclipse of the Sun. - -Since the moon is moving away from the Earth at ~4 cm/year, we live at exactly the right time to see it. What an astronomical unit (AU) is and the general distance ...

EAPS 100 Purdue - Exam 1, Questions and answers, rated A+ What are the 4 parts of Earth's system? - -Atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, biosphere Atmosphere - -Envelope of gas that surrounds the Earth, elevation of 10,000 km, gets thinner the farther away from Earth Hydrosphere - -Majority in oceans, fresh water in glaciers and groundwater Topography - -land Bathymetry - -ocean Internal Energy - -heat (thermal energy) -rocks melt, volcanoes -Earth's interior soft enough to flow E...

EAPS 111 Exam 1 Questions and answers, rated A+ What are the layers of the Earth? - -Mantle Crust Inner Core Outer Core What are the three types of plate boundaries? - -Convergent Divergent Transform What are the kinds of evidence/observations led geoscientists to conclude the existence of tectonic plates? - -The reactions that happen when they collide (earthquakes, volcanoes, faulted rocks) Describe the large-scale motions at convergent boundaries. - -The plates move towards each o...

EAPS Exam 1 Study Guide, Exam Questions and answers, rated A+ Solar Nebula A large cloud of gas and dust such as the one that formed our solar system Why do new planets have a hot inside Planet accretion results from lots of collisions each producing heat. Conservation of energy, stopping moving objects and converting the energy into heat. Combined with heat from decaying radioactive elements all new planets become so hot inside that they melt. Rogue planet Planets that used to orbit...

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EAPS 105 Final Exam Study Guide Questions & Answers 2024 collision - ANSWER-Moons form from a collision of a large impactor that ejects mass into orbit to form a disc of material (ring) that then accretes into a moon capture - ANSWER-objects passing too close to a planet can be captured by its gravity; these moons are readily identifiable by having orbits that are not aligned with the planet's equator, non-circular orbits, and/or retrograde orbits co-accretion - ANSWER-moons formed f...

EAPS 105 Exam 2 Questions & Answers 2024 Earth's interior temperatures - ANSWER-Inner core (Solid 5000 C), Outer core (liquid C), Mantle (Solid 3000 C) What are the consequences of a planet/moon being hot inside? - ANSWER-Differentiation, volcanism, plate tectonics, and magnetic fields What is the relationship between heat and the motion in atom? - ANSWER-Heat is a frequency of vibrations in atoms Primordial heating - ANSWER-Accretion and core formation Why is Io hot inside? -...

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