Test 2 (64-126)
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| show | are almost circular, with low eccentricities.
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| 65. What might have made the original solar nebula begin to contract? | show 🗑
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| show | Galileo.
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| 67. Which of these is not a characteristic of the solar nebula theory? | show 🗑
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| 68. Our understanding of the solar system has come in a way that can best be described as: | show 🗑
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| show | lie beyond the orbit of Neptune, and close to the ecliptic.
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| show | further from the Sun than they are now
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| show | asteroids
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| show | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune only
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| show | Accretion and capture
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| 74. The Kuiper Belt is an "outer asteroid belt" consisting of what types of solar system bodies? | show 🗑
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| 75. As a rotating gas cloud contracts, it spins | show 🗑
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| show | low density
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| 77. The Kuiper Belt is: | show 🗑
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| show | beyond the orbit of Neptune
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| show | The variation in temperature throughout the solar nebula; the higher the temperature, the lower the percentage of light elements in the forming planet.
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| 80. Which of the following is not icy in composition? | show 🗑
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| show | the Sun
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| show | a comet
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| show | volume
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| show | spins faster due to conservation of angular momentum.
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| 85. Our understanding of the solar system has come in a way that can best be described as: | show 🗑
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| show | the time it takes to return to the same location in the sky, relative to the Sun.
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| show | their surface features are obscured by their atmospheres.
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| show | to determine the origin and evolution of the solar system
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| show | are almost circular, with low eccentricities
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| 90. Which planet by itself contains the majority of mass of all the planets? | show 🗑
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| show | Core-accretion
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| 92. What is true about solar system densities? | show 🗑
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| show | moons
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| show | Cassini
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| show | between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
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| 96. Mercury's most unusual orbital feature, as compared to the other planets, is | show 🗑
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| 97. Dust is an important part of the nebular theory of solar system formation because dust is needed to explain | show 🗑
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| show | lie beyond the orbit of Neptune, and close to the ecliptic
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| show | changes the speed and direction of a spacecraft nearing a massive planet.
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| 100. Our best close-up views of the jovian moons came from the many passes by: | show 🗑
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| show | Comet Hale-Bopp
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| 102. What is the process of accretion? | show 🗑
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| 103. Masses of the planets are easiest to determine if: | show 🗑
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| show | The Industrial Revolution
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| 105. When water vapor condenses out at the cool tops of convection cells, what happens? | show 🗑
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| 106. At what phase would tidal variation be the least during the entire day? | show 🗑
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| show | the meat of a cherry as compared to the pit of the cherry.
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| show | the Nazca Trench.
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| show | the skin of a grape as compared to the meat of the grape.
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| show | four billion years old.
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| 111. In noting that our world is "differentiated," we mean that: | show 🗑
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| show | when the sun is high in the sky
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| 113. Which of these gases are outgassed from our volcanic eruptions? | show 🗑
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| show | Van Allen Radiation Belts.
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| 115. What is the hole in the ozone layer is thought to be caused by? | show 🗑
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| show | water vapor and carbon dioxide.
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| 117. Like other solid bodies in the solar system, Earth's surface was kept molten by | show 🗑
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| show | troposphere.
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| 119. Which statement about seismic waves is true? | show 🗑
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| 120. Which parts of the Sun's radiation are responsible for heating Earth's surface? | show 🗑
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| 121. What can we conclude about the structure of Earth's interior knowing that the average density of Earth is higher than the average density of the rock on the continents and seafloor? | show 🗑
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| 122. Earth's magnetic field: | show 🗑
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| show | the atmosphere scatters the light from the Sun
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| show | the Sun
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| 125. Without the greenhouse effect operating in our atmosphere | show 🗑
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| show | troposphere
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