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Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Solar day

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Sunrise to sunrise. Time it takes earth to rotate 365 degrees on its axis. 3.9 minutes off; accounts for extra day in leap year

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Diurnal Motion

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Movement of sun and the stars. Based on 24 hour solar day

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Sundial

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Motion of sun across the sky. Arm is facing north, angles represent time of day

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Sidereal Day

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Invented by Mayans

Movement of the stars by the difference/shift of stars every night (like Oriens belt)

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Seasons

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Created by the tilt the earth has on its axis. (23.5 degrees)
Opposites in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere

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Indirect/direct sunlight

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Direct= summer
Indirect= winter
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Summer solstice

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June 21

Tilted towards sun; most direct Rays

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Winter Solstice

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Tilted away from sun; Suns Rays are more indirect

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Autumnal Equinox

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September 21

Signals arrival of fall

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Vernal Equinox

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March 21

Signals arrival of spring

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Lunar phases

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  1. New moon
  2. Waxing crescent
  3. 1st quarter
  4. Waxing crescent
  5. Full moon
  6. Waning gibbous
  7. 3rd quarter
  8. Waning crescent
    (Repeat)
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The moon

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Brightest object in night sky
27.3 days to get through the moons changes
Location of moon determines what we see
1/2 is always illuminated by sun

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Liberation

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The moon shifting/wobbling

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Blue moon

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2 full moons in a month

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Eclipse

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When earth, moon, and sub are in alignment in all plains

Reason= shadow

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Lunar Eclipse

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Sun, earth, moon

Full moon only

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Solar eclipse

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Rate b/c moon shadow is much smaller than that of earth
Sun, moon, earth
Not safe to look at

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Umbra

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Total darkness (200 mi wide)

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Penumbra

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Perimeter of shadow and some light

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We study the moon because..

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Holds clues to unlocking the universe because it hasn’t changed much
We may need to inhibit it
May need it’s raw materials
May want to launch from here

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The moons size

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Smaller mass, smaller gravitational force
GF allows life to exits
Low GF= higher escape speed = faster interspace speeds= quicker arrival times

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Continental drift

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Crustal plates are adrift on the upper mental and move, collide
Convection rising from heat moves plates. Hot molten interior

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Moons Core

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Frozen/solid core-> no magnetic field

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Hydrosphere

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Liquid portion of planet

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Clementine

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Found water on the polls at the bottom of craters in perpetual darkness
To confirm we crashed a probe in a crater (lunar prospector)
Proved there wasn’t water on the moon

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Electrolysis

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Breaking h2o into hydrogen and ice gyn gas to make rocket fuel

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Geology

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Studied rocks/moon soil (regalith)
Earth= no organic material
Moon= organic material

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Atmospheres

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Moon is thin

Earth has well developed atmosphere that insulates us and protects radiation

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Solar Day

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Sunrise to sunrise

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President for Cold War

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John f Kennedy 1961

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Russia led space race with putting who in space first

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Yuri Gagarin and first satellite

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First attempt to put something in space by Russia

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Fruit flys

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Soviets put dog in space.. How’d it die

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Stress and overheat

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U.s put what in space

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Firsts U.S manned space station

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Mercury seven

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Apollo 1

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Preflight failed and burned/killed 3 astronauts

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Apollo 11

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Neil Armstrong, buzz aldrin(first to step on moon) and Collins flew to

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Apollo 12

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Went off without hitch

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Apollo 13

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Major problem

Short circuited

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Apollo14

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Alan Shepard took golf clubs to moon

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Apollo 15

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“Lunar rover”

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Apollo 16

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Use the rover

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Apollo 17

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Last manned mission to moon

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Roman name for moon

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Tides of bay of fundy rise to

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Presence of these chemicals lead to indication of earth and moon are formed at same time in same area

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Level of atmospheres in order

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Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
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Troposphere

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Thickest part
Have to throttle down or else Itl burn up
Where weather occurs

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Stratosphere

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Dry, less dense

Warm

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Mesosphere

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Middle
Cold
Where meteors burn up (because of speed and friction)

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Thermosphere

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Hot
Where satellites orbit
Ionosphere= charged atoms to use on radios
Northern lights

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Exosphere

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Cold -> almost absolute zero
Merges with space
Hydrogen and helium that fuel stars

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Gemini

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Astronauts work in corporation to fly space craft

Ed white = first to walk in space

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Soviet Union

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Puts dog in space (dies)
Yuri Gagarian beats us by 3 weeks
First person to orbit earth
Put 1st woman in space= Valentina Tereshkova

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Mercury 7

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USA
7 people 
Alan Shepard= first American in space
Lands in sea
1st, oldest to orbit = John Glenn
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1st attempt at living in space was

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Fruit flys

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Conforming

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4.6 billion years ago the earth and moon form out of solar nebula. Have to be identical - they aren’t. X

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Capture

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Even though they formed independently, one captured the other as it moved past

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Impact

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Theia moves past earth, strokes it, chunk forms moon. Most popular/accepted because materials in moon mantle and our core matches

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Moons orbit is..

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Growing outward at 3.8 cm/year

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Tide

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Occurs in hydrosphere. Water level fluctuates up and down.
Bodies involved= earth, moon, sometimes sun
2 high and 2 low in a period of 24 hours

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Greatest tides are in

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Bay of Fundy

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Seiche

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Wind driven tide. Shallow body of contained waiter

-> water @ western end leaves and lowers 6-7 feet

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Tidal Bores

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River holds ride back, then floods over

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Storm Surge

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Hurricane. Mixed with wind and tide.

Water rises

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Tidal Waves

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Movement of tectonic plates

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First man on the moon

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The ozone layer lies in which layer of the atmosphere

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Stratosphere

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Maria are the remnants of what

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Craters on the moon were caused by

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2 areas of the moon we see from earth

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Highlands

Maria

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First person in space

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Gaining illumination

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Loosing illumination

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