astro reading quiz 7
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| Suppose we use a baseball to represent Earth. On this scale, the other terrestrial worlds (Mercury, Venus, the Moon, and Mars) would range in size approximately from that of _________. | show 🗑
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| show | core, mantle, crust
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| What do we mean when we say that the terrestrial worlds underwent differentiation? | show 🗑
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| show | a layer of relatively strong, rigid rock, encompassing the crust and part of the mantle
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| show | (1) Heat deposited by the process of formation; (2) heat released by radioactive decay.
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| show | Warm air expanding and rising while cooler air contracts and fall.
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| In general, which things below are affected by a magnetic field? | show 🗑
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| What is a magnetosphere? | show 🗑
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| The processes responsible for virtually all surface geology are _________. | show 🗑
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| show | the release by volcanism of gases that had been trapped in a planetary interior
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| show | The gradual disappearance of a crater rim as a result of wind and rain.
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| Which of the following is the most basic definition of a greenhouse gas? | show 🗑
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| show | about the thickness of a sheet of paper
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| show | relatively smooth, flat plains on the Moon
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| show | It is the result of countless tiny impacts by small particles striking the Moon.
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| show | the presence of many long, tall cliffs
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| Olympus Mons is ______. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following does not provide evidence that Mars once had abundant liquid water on its surface? | show 🗑
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| Based on its surface features, the most important event on Venus in the past billion years or so was _________. | show 🗑
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| What do we mean by a runaway greenhouse effect? | show 🗑
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| On average, how fast do the plates move on the Earth? | show 🗑
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| show | Seafloor crust is thinner, younger, and higher in density.
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| show | A place where a seafloor plate is sliding under a continental plate.
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| show | It regulates the carbon dioxide concentration of our atmosphere, keeping temperatures moderate.
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| show | human activities that are increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere
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| Based on all we know about the terrestrial worlds, what factor appears to play the most important role in a terrestrial planet's geological destiny? | show 🗑
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