MTTC Integrated Science 094 Earth and Space Sciences Exam Questions & Answers 100% Solved

astronomy - Answer The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space layers of the sun - Answer photosphere, chromosphere, corona the moons gravitational pull is responsible for - Answer earths tides Equinox - Answer The two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun; september and march Solstice - Answer Either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator Big Bang Theory - Answer (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small mass of matter at extremely high density and temperature Red Dwarf Star - Answer (longest lifespan): Stars that are smaller than our sun and have less mass. They burn their fuel very slowly They are not very hot compared to other stars. supergiant star - Answer star with a diameter up to 1000 times the diameter of the sun; largest of all stars Nebula - Answer A large cloud of dust and gas in space black hole - Answer An object in space whose gravity is so strong not even light can escape. solar day - Answer The amount of time that passes between successive appearances of the sun on the meridian Hertzsprung-Russell diagram - Answer a graph relating the surface temperatures and absolute brightness of stars Inner Terrestrial Planets + characteristics - Answer Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars; small, dense, rocky Outer Jovian Planets + characterstics - Answer Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; large low density, have rings; gas giants between the inner and outer planets is - Answer asteroid belt the distance between the earth and the sun is known as - Answer 1 astronomical unit (AU) the suns energy is produced by - Answer nuclear fusion reactions order of the planets - Answer MVEMJSUN - Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Kuiper Belt - Answer A region of the solar system that is just beyond the orbit of Neptune and that contains small bodies made mostly of ice waxing moon - Answer the phase of the Moon when an increasing amount of the Moon's near side is sunlit Waning - Answer (of the moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases eclipse of the sun - Answer Occurs during a new Moon when the side of the Moon facing the Earth is not illuminated -The Moon passes in front of the Sun and blocks its view from Earth eclipse of the moon (lunar eclipse) - Answer the moon passes through the shadow of the earth and blocks sunlight from reaching it comet - Answer A ball of frozen dust and rock that orbits the sun and has a tail that glows geosynchronous orbit - Answer the orbit of a satellite that revolves around Earth at the same rate that Earth rotates radioactive dating - Answer A technique used to determine the actual age of a fossil on the basis of the amount of a radioactive element it contains uniformaitariansim - Answer belief that the forces, processes and laws we see today have existed throughout geological time Superposition - Answer a principle that states that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layers have not been disturbed geologic time scale - Answer scale used by paleontologists to represent evolutionary time the first observations of stratigraphy were made by - Answer aristotle