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These review questions are meant help you to organize what you have learned in class. Remember to review the chapters in the book also.
1. List the planets from the sun outwards and give two distinguishing features of each.
2. What are the layers within the Earth? Sketch them. How do we know this?
3. Describe how plate tectonics occurs (number of plates, size, speed, 3 types of interactions). Draw a sketch to show how plates have moved in the most recent 200 million years on earth. Describe ten pieces of evidence for this scenario.
4. Describe the evidence for a lack of atmosphere on the moon. Explain why the Earth has air but the moon has none.
5. Describe the surface features of Mars. What evidence is there that conditions were once very different there?
6. List the members of the terrestrial and Jovian planet groups. Give ten differences between the groups.
7. List the large-scale facts (beyond Kepler's laws) about the solar system to be explained by a model of its origin. Describe two models and tell why one is preferred today.
8. Compare (tell similarities) and contrast (tell differences) any two planets I choose.
9. How do the moons of Jupiter resemble a small solar system?
10. Describe the discoveries of the outer three planets. How might we discover another planet?
11. State Kepler's three laws of planetary motion and tell how they apply to a comet and an asteroid.
12. Describe things which could be done in a near-Earth orbit or on the moon which cannot be done easily on the Earth. What is the major drawback to developing this "high frontier"?