Ses Exam Review

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moon

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the combined matter in our solar system of minor planets would produce a body half the size of this

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meteors

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smaller members of our solar system

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asteroids

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largest members of the solar system

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Ceres

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the first minor planet that was found

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Jupiter

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in the late 1700s, astronomers looked for a missing planet between Mars and _____

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Vesta

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discovered because of its light reflectability

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asteroid

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means "star-like"

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asteroids

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have negligible gravity

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binary asteroids

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asteroids that orbit around each other

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name and number

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what asteroids were given until the late 20th century

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the number of known asteroids is close to ___

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100,000

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asteroid belt

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where the majority of minor planets orbit

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asteroids are not numbered by the ___

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year they were discovered followed by two letters which identify the month

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number of members in the Apollo family

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1300

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this planet's strong gravitational influence causes the planes of asteroids to wobble

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Jupiter

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discuss ancient theories about comets

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see page 131

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draw and discuss the parts of a comet while noting the direction of the sun - note the coma, nucleus, Type I tail, Type II tail, head

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see page 133

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periodic

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a comet that keeps returning

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hyperbolic

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a comet that returns only once

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2P/Encke

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Having the shortest period of any known comet

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What shortens a comets life span

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the sun

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What broke up and hit Jupiter?

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SL9

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The life span of a meteor is ___

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instant

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What causes the burning up of most particles that enter our atmosphere?

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friction

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a particle of rock or dust that orbits the sun

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meteroid

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a particle of rock or dust that enters the earth's atmosphere

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meteor

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a particle of rock that reaches the earth's ground

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meteorite

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162,000

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the speed that some meteors have been clocked at

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the number of miles from earth's surface that a meteor is when it is first seen

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between 5 and 10 miles

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the time when it is better to see meteors

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after midnight

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illustrate and define Newton's third law of motion

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see page 165

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capture theory

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see page 159

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fission theory

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see page 160

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accretion theory

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see page 160

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impact theory

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see page 161

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Sputnik I

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the world's first man made satellite

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Congreve

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This man's rocket was visualized in our national anthem.

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"flying fire"

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bamboo tube, packed with gun powder, and attached to arrow

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Hale

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rocket that replaced the stick stabilizer with three fin like nozzles

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V-2

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rocket developed under Von Braun

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"buzz bomb"

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the V-1

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Explorer I

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discovered the Van Allen belt

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discovered a band of charged particles trapped by the earth's magnetic field

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USA

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first to place a man made satellite in orbit around the earth

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Soviet Union

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completed the first fly-by of the moon

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Soviet Union

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completed the first fly-by of Venus

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Soviet Union

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the first soft landing on the moon

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Soviet Union

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landed people on the moon

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USA

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Launched Pioneer 10 which became the first space craft to exit the solar system

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USA

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became the third nation to send a man into orbit

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China

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its size is _____ the width of the USA

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less than

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the shape of the moon

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almost a perfect sphere

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the escape velocity of the moon

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weak

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the mass of an object is defined as the amount of ___ in an object

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matter

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terminator

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evidence of the moon's thin atmosphere

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the moon's atmosphere does not contain even trace amounts of ___

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oxygen

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the term crater comes from a Greek word for ___

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cup

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the most spectacular of the moon's craters is

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Tycho

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long narrow valleys on the moon

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rills

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shapes formed by the dark areas

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maria

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closes point of orbit

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perigee

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most distant point of orbit

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apogee

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the beginning of the moon's cycle

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new

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the horns of a crescent moon

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cusps

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sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon and back again

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earth shine

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discuss the uniqueness of our moon in the Solar System

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see page 149

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draw, color, label, and discuss the causes of precipitation : Convection, orographic, convergence

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see page 226

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Proverbs 1:33

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Genesis 1:16

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Psalm 89:37

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