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Who is called the “father of geography”?

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Eratosthenes

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Who was the first to measure the circumference of Earth?

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Eratosthenes

  • also calculated tilt of Earth’s axis
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Who created the first map of the world?

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Anaximander

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Who made the first map of India?

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Ainville

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Who first presented India on the world map?

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Ptolemy

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What is the study of soils in their natural environment called?

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Pedology

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What is the study of the organisms and their relationship with their environment?

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Biogeography

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Which is the galaxy closest to us?

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Andromeda

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Who first proposed that the Sun was the centre of the universe?

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Copernicus

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Who first proposed that the Sun was the centre of the solar system (not universe)?

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Kepler

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Who first demonstrated the existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way?

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Edwin Hubble

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What are the two missions launched by NASA to study the radiation in the universe?

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Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)

Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)

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What are the two missions launched by NASA to study the origins of the solar wind and how it affects Earth?

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Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission
Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS)

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What is a star that is bigger than the Sun but not more than twice as big?

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Neutron star / Pulsar

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Which is the brightest star outside our solar system?

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Sirius (Dog Star)

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Which star is closest to our solar system?

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Proxima Centauri [4.2 light years away]

  • then Alpha Centauri [4.3 light years away]
  • then Bernard’s Star [5.9 light years away]
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What is the Chandrashekhar limit?

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1.44 times the mass of the sun

  • after which the star will either explode (pulsar) or collapse (black hole)
  • predicted by Dr. Chandrashekhar
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What is an astronomical unit?

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Average distance between Sun and Earth

[60,000 AUs = 1 light year]

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What is a parsec?

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Distance from the earth to a star that has a parallax of 1 arc second

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Size of solar system

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10^5 AUs

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The electrically charged gases in the Solar System is called _____.

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Plasma

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What are small solar system bodies?

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Components of solar system other than planets, dwarf plants and their satellites

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Which is the most widely accepted theory of planetary formation?

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Nebular Hypothesis

  • by Laplace
  • Maintains that 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud which was light years across.
  • Several stars, including the Sun, formed within the collapsing cloud
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What causes the energy provided by the Sun?

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Nuclear Fusion

  • conversion of H to He
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What is the surface of the Sun visible to us called?
Photosphere
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What is above the photosphere?
Chromosphere
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What is the galactic/cosmic year?
The time required for the Sun to orbit once around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy - 224 million years
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What are the dark features in the optical spectrum of the Sun called?
Fraunhofer lines
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Which layer of the sun is observable during an eclipse?
Corona
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How much time does it take for the Sun's light to reach Earth?
8 min 16 sec
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These hot ionised gases pose a threat to satellite communication.
Solar flares
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What are the streams of photons emitted by the Sun as spiral streams called?
Solar winds
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What are the solar winds that get trapped by the Earth's magnetic field called?
Aurora - Aurora Borealis [North Hem] - Aurora Australis [South Hem]
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What are the bright spots on the Sun called?
Plages
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Which spots on the sun affect global climate?
Sunspots
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What is another name for gaseous planets?
Jovian
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Biggest satellite in the solar system
Ganymede
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Green planet in the solar system
Uranus
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Brightest planet in the solar system
Venus
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Densest plant
Earth
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Hottest planet
Venus
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Fastest rotation planet
Jupiter
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Slowest rotating planet
Venus
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Smallest satellite
Phobos - belongs to Mars
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Morning and Evening star
Venus
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Only satellite with an atmosphere like Earth
Titan
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Which planet has the most satellites in our solar system?
Jupiter [67 moons] - then Saturn [62 moons]
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What are the 4 largest moons on Jupiter called?
Galilean moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
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Which planet has the Great Black Spot?
Neptune - almost the size of Earth
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The study of the moon is called _____.
Selenology
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The moon is also called a _____ planet.
Fossil planet
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What elements are majorly found on the Moon?
Silicon, magnesium, iron
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What is the Oort cloud?
Source of origin of most comets - Long-period comets (take > 200 years to complete an orbit around the Sun) come from Oort Cloud. - Short-period comets (take < 200 years to complete an orbit around the Sun) come from the Kuiper Belt.
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What are the three eras that Earth's geological history is divided into?
Palaeozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
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Most element found on Earth
Iron [35%]
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How old is the Earth?
4.54 billion years
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The Earth rotates in which direction?
West to East
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The point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the Earth is called _____.
Apogee
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The point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is nearest to the Earth is called ______.
Perigee
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The point in the orbit of a planet is nearest to the sun is called ______.
Perihelion
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The point in the orbit of a planet is farthest from the sun is called ______.
Aphelion
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Degree of Earth's incline
66.5
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When are the two equinoxes?
21 March [vernal] & 23 Sept [autumnal]
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When the Sun is right above the Tropic of Cancer it is called _______.
Summer solstice
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When the Sun is right above the Tropic of Capricorn it is called _______.
Winter solstice
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Longest day in Northern Hemisphere
21st June - also the shortest day in Southern Hemisphere
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Shortest day in Northern Hemisphere
22nd December - also the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere
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Equal day and night in both hemispheres
21st March & 23rd Sept
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How did they decide the Prime Meridian?
The line that passes through the Royal Astronomical Observatory in Greenwich [in 1884]
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What is opposite to the Prime Meridian?
International Date Line
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How many longitudinal zones is earth divided into?
24 - each 1 hour apart
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Which country has the most amount of time zones?
Russia [11]
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Where is the Earth in a lunar eclipse?
Between moon and Sun - on a full moon day
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What is the sequence in a solar eclipse?
Sun-moon-Earth - shadow of moon falls on earth - on a new moon day
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______ is the thinnest layer on Earth with the least density.
Crust
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____ and ____ together form the Earth's crust.
Sial [Si and Al] & Sima [Si and Ma] - silicon, aluminium and magnesium make up the rocks
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Which layer consists of minerals in a semi-solid state?
Mantle
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The upper part of the mantle is called ______.
Asthenosphere
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The transitional separating the mantle from the core is called ______.
Gutenberg Discontinuity - Earth's density and velocity of 'P' waves increases
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The inner core is in solid/liquid/semi-solid state.
Solid - or crystalline
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The outer part of the core is in solid/liquid/semi-solid state.
Liquid
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The core is also known as ____.
Nife [Ni+Fe] - nickel and iron abundance
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Where is the Lehmann discontinuity?
Between Earth's inner and outer core
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Which discontinuity lies between the upper and lower crust?
Conroad
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Which discontinuity lies between the crust and mantle?
Mohorovicic
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Which discontinuity lies between the upper and lower mantle?
Repetti
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Who proposed the continental drift theory?
Alfred Wegener [1915]
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According to the continental drift theory, 250 million years ago there was one big continent called Pangea, surrounded by one big ocean called _____.
Panthalassa
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The continental rift cut Pangea from East to West, creating _____ in the North and ____ in the South.
Laurasia, Gondwalaland
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What was the sea called between Laurasia & Gondwalaland?
Tethys
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Who proposed the sea floor spreading theory?
Harry Hess
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Name an example of a transform fault boundary.
San Andreas fault
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Mid oceanic ridges are formed by _____ plate boundaries.
Divergent
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Examples of exogenetic forces
Weathering and erosion - factors affecting surface of the earth from outside
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Examples of indogenetic forces
Volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides
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Examples of diastropic forces
Mountains, plateaus, plains, lakes, faults - aka constructive forces - include vertical and horizontal movements - operate slowly; effects visible in million years
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_____ is the strictly vertical movement of a continent forming gentle arches and structural basins.
Epirogenic movement/force - falls under diastropic forces
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_____ processes involve mountain building through severe folding and affect long and narrow belts of the earth's crust.
Orogenic - aka tangential forces - moving in opposite direction: tensional/divergent force; create faulting & cracking - moves together: compressional/convergent force; create folding & warping

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