Final Exam Review
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| How does the suns energy travel to earth? | Electromagnetic Radiation
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| What is the theory that the solar system developed from a cloud of dust and gas? | Nebular Theory
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| What theory describes the formation of the universe? | The big bang
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| At what point is Earth closest to the sun? | Perihelion
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| What must happen for a solar eclipse to occur? | The moon passes in front of the sun
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| What forces keep a planet in orbit? | Gravity and centrifugal forces
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| What is a barycenter? | The point in space around which two objects orbit.
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| What is Nutation? | a periodic oscillation of the earth's axis that causes the precession of the poles to follow a wavy rather than a circular path.
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| What is precession? | The slow, top like wobbling of the spinning earth, w/ a period of about 26,000 years
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| What is responsible for the seasonal changes on earth? | Earth's Rotation
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| What causes the unequal heating of the earth? | Earth's tilt
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| What is the term used to describe when the moon is closest to the earth? | Supermoon
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| What causes the phases of the moon we see each month? | The moon orbits leaving one side in the sunlight and the other in the shadow.
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| What rocks form from energy of the earths interior? |
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| What are the three types of rocks? | Sedimentary, Igneous, Metamorphic
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| What are the two types of energy that drive the Earth's rock cycle? | Geothermal heat and solar energy
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| Which types of rocks are formed by processes powered by the sun? | sedimentary
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| What rock is formed when magma hardens beneath the Earth's surface? | Igneous
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| What is the classification of rock that is formed by cooling lava? | Igneous
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| List in order the processes that form sedimentary rock | Erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation.
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| What are the uses of fossils found in sedimentary rock? |
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