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Astronomy (103 cards)

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What are Craters?

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Circular excavated holes from impact events, usually due to material flying out from the explosive impact. Most impactors are not circular in shape.

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What is Ejecta?

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The impact spray material that is scattered out in all directions.

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What are all the major parts of a crater?

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a. Floor – bottom of crater
b. Central Peaks – forms when the crater pushes up after impact
c. Walls- the interior sides of a crater
d. Rim- The edge of the crater that is pushed up and surrounds the crater
e. Ejecta- Rock material thrown out of crater during impact
f. Rays – Bright streaks extending away from the crater composed of ejecta.

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What is the difference between a simple and a complex crater?

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Simple craters are small bowl-shaped, smooth-walled craters, no peaks. Complex craters are large and can have terraces, central peaks, and rings.

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What is an example of a complex crater on the moon?

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Copernicus

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What influences the size and shape of a crater?

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-Geology of the surface
-The velocity and mass of the impacting body

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The faster the incoming impactor, the [____________________]the crater.

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larger

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Typically, materials from space hit Earth at about [___________] kilometers per second.

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20

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What creates a more elongate crater shape?

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An impactor strikes the surface at a very low angle — less than 20 degrees

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Why does Venus not have a lot of impact craters?

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The surface has been covered by lava flows .

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Why does Earth not have a lot of impact craters?

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Plate tectonic activity (and erosion).

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What type of crater is the Barringer Crater?

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Simple Crater

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What type of Meteoroid struck at Barringer Crater?

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iron rich

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What is suspected to be the oldest and largest impact crater on Earth’s surface?

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Vredefort Impact Crater

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Where is this crater located? ( The oldest suspected crater)

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south africa

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Meteors — incorrectly called ____ ___ are the streaks of light created as particles of dust and ice ___
in our atmosphere. Misspelled words will be counted incorrect.

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1 Shooting
2 Stars
3 Vaporize

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What type of crater is Sierra Madera Crater?

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complex

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About how old is Sierra Madera crater? About what geologic time period as well?

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Cretaceous

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What type if crater is Chesapeake Bay Crater?

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Complex

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What was the geological set up at the time of impact for the Chesapeake Bay Crater?

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marine

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What type of crater is the Santa Fe Crater?

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complex

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What evidence was found to indicate that there was an impact in the Santa Fe Crater area?

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Shattercones

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What type of crater is the Serpent Mound in Ohio?

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complex

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What type of rock is Serpent Mound located in?

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Sedimentary

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What type of crater is Upheaval Dome?
Complex
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Where, specifically is Upheaval Dome located? Select the best and most accurate answer.
Canyonlands national park
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___ ___have the most amount of energy in the electromagnetic spectrum. Each " blank" should have only one word.
Gamma Rays
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Which color on this image corresponds to x-rays? short S's on left side, loooooong S's on right side
Xray is a little longer than the far left (purple/blue)
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It takes light from the Sun about ___ minutes and seconds to reach Earth.
8.2
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A telescope that uses mirrors is called a(n) ______.
Reflecting Telescope
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The big radar dish looking thing is what type of telescope
Radio Telescope
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Infrared space observatories are generally used to study _______.
Cool celestial objects
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Sunspots are ________.
Solar Storms
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Which of the following visible light colors is the most energetic?
again with tiny S's that has more energy than longer S's
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What kind of telescope is visible in this figure?
has a lens and eye piece its refracting
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When a galaxy is observed moving toward the Earth, what visible radiation (as in, which color) will it emit?
Blue
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How will the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation change during the Doppler shift?
Short wavelengths when approaching an object, long wavelengths when moving away
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What kind of Doppler shift has the shifted element in this figure undergone?
if all the colors move its blue shift
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Which of the following is considered a form of electromagnetic radiation? Choose all that apply.
Visible Light Infrared Radiation Gamma Rays X-Rays Microwaves
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Why does space make a good site for an optical observatory?
Optical observatories in space do not face the problems of interfering cloud cover, an atmosphere that blocks out much of the electromagnetic spectrum, and light pollution.
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Discoveries made by the Hubble Space Telescope?
-Demonstration that disk shaped dust clouds are common around young stars -Evidence for massive black holes in the center of our galaxy -Deep space images never seen before
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The Spitzer space telescope is ________.
A thermal infrared detecting telescope
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We use light years to measure objects in the ___. We use __ __ to measure objects in the solar system.
Universe, Astronomical, Units
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Gamma Rays and X Ray astronomy can assist astronomers in detecting/studying which of the following celestial objects. Check all that apply.
- Pulsars -Solar flares - Black Holes -Supernovas
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Galileo invented the telescope. T/F
False
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X-rays are completely absorbed Earth's atmosphere. T/F
True
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Which of the following has the Chandra X-Ray telescope help astrophysics? Choose all that apply.
- How elements are spread after a supernova events - Found evidence to support the existence of dark matter. - Witnessed powerful eruptions from black holes
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The Hubble Space telescope has been in service for over 25 years and no upgrades have been made on the telescope. T/F
False
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Which of the following are missions that NASA has designed for the James Webb Telescope. Choose all that apply.
Observe planets and the origins of life. To observe the birth of stars and protoplanetary systems To observe/find the first light of the universe and reionization To understand the assembly of galaxies
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The James Webb telescope was deployed in stages when the telescope was finally launched into space. T/F
True
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Which of the following are primary lines of evidence for the Big Bang? Select all that apply.
Red Shift of light from distant galaxies. Residual, cosmic background microwave radiation. Cosmic abundance of Hydrogen and Helium Average temperature in space is 3K
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How old is the Solar System?
4.6 Billion Years Old
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Our own earth formed out of what was left over after the birth of the [___________].
Sun
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Select the planets below that are the "Inner" Planets of the Solar System.
Venus Earth Mercury Mars
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Which planets make up the " Outer" Solar System?
Saturn Uranus Jupiter Neptune also called Jovian planets
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What are two other dwarf planets mentioned in Episode 1- Solar System?
Ceres, Eris
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Define the Heliosphere
It is a huge magnetic bubble that forms the outer edge of the solar system.
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The sun in the center of our Solar System and contains [____________]% of its mass.
99
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What is the name for the process that the sun converts Hydrogen into Helium to produce energy?
Nuclear Fusion
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Which of the following would be the best description/order of the " death" of our sun?
Red Giant- Gas Shedding-White Dwarf- Black Dwarf
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Mercury orbits the Sun every [________________] days
88
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Mercury lacks an [_______________], thus Mercury has no weather.
atmosphere
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What do scientists think caused most of the erosion on Mercury?
The sun
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Venus spins most slowly than all of the planets, a single rotation, a single day is [____________] Earth Days.
243
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Which two planets in the Solar System lack a moon?
Mercury, Venus
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Why is mars red?
The surface of mars is covered by volcanic rock that is iron rich and sprinkled with Iron Oxide Rust.
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Largest known volcano in the solar system?
Olympus Mons
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What are the two moons of Mars?
Phobos, Deimos
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It is hypothesized that the moons of Mars are actually captured [_______________]
Asteroids
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On Mars, one of the best indicators that water used to be on the planet was that scientists come across [ ________________] a mineral that forms only in the presence of water.
hematite
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Jupiter has a giant storm that it is known for, what is the name of this storm?
The great red spot
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How has Jupiter protected Earth?
The gravity of Jupiter is so immense that it deflects asteroids from hitting Earth by its own gravitational pull.
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The planet Saturn rotates the slowest than any other planet in the Solar Syatem. T/F
False
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How do scientists think Saturn got its rings?
Scientists believe the rings were once a moon of Saturn that had mysteriously crumbled. This left behind particles each in their own independent orbit.
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Which one of Saturn's moon had a visit from the Huygens probe in 2005?
Titan
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Why are Neptune and Uranus blue in color?
CH4 in the atmosphere
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Which planet has the most extreme seasons?
Neptune
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Neptune has the strongest winds in the solar system. T/F
True
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Explain the relationship between Neptune and Pluto and how that relationship " demoted" Pluto from planetary status?
The orbit of both planets intersects each other. This sometimes makes Pluto closer to the Sun than Neptune instead of maintaining a consistent orbit around the Sun. Pluto being unable to clear objects from its orbital neighborhood is what demoted it from a planet and is considered a dwarf planet.
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Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have rings. T/F
True
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What objects does the Kuiper Belt hold?
Dwarf Planets, Comets, Icy Objects
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advantages of radio telescopes
less affected by weather less expensive can be used 24 hours a day detects material that doesn't emit visible radiation can "see" through interstellar dust clouds
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Why is interstellar matter often referred to as a stellar nursery?
It is the region where a star is born
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Death of a "huge star"
Supergiant, supernova, neutron star
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Death of a Giant star, bigger than huge star
Red supergiant, supernova, black hole
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What are the 3 types of galaxies?
Ellipticals - galaxies that are bulge, no disk component Spirals- Galaxies have varying amounts of disk Irregulars- odd looking galaxies
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How do large elliptical galaxies form?
Spherical, egg shaped galaxies. Have little gas and dust, mostly form from collisions and merging of spiral galaxies
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What is a NEO
near earth objects
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Chevy Asteroid
in 1992 a football sized meteorite went through the trunk of michelle knapps chevy in peekskill new york
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what is a comet?
Composed of dust and ice, travel faster than asteroids
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What is the Oort cloud?
a shell of icy bodies that surrounds our solar system, past kuiper belt
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heliocentric
a model where the sun is assumed to be the center while the earth and other bodies orbit it
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Ptolemaic System
where the earth is the center and things orbit the earth, also called geocentric
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perihelion
the point of orbit that an object is closest to the sun
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hubbles law
the velocity of recession between our galaxy and the other galaxies are directly proportional to the distance between them
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terrestrial planets are..
rocky worlds with water and/or carbon
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Kepler's Laws
1 planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun as a focus, (2) a planet covers the same area of space in the same amount of time no matter where it is in its orbit, and (3) a planet's orbital period is proportional to the size of its orbit (its semi-major axis)
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Special Relativity vs General Relativity
special relativity, which explains the relationship between space, time, mass, and energy; and general relativity, which describes how gravity fits into the mix
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Barred spiral galaxy
looks like a hurricane, made of stars for arms and a bar that runs in the middle connecting them
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Vernal Equinox
where the sun is exactly above the equator marking spring
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Epicycle
geometric model used to explain the variations in speed and direction of the apparent motion of the Moon, Sun, and planets
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Galilean Moons on jupiter
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and callisto
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circumpolar constellations
constellations that are always visible in the night sky because they circle the celestial poles and never set below the horizon

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