Test #3 - Wednesday, March 30
Review notes, chapter
summaries, homework assignments, chapter questions.
Chapter 7:
•orbital and spin
properties of planets
•Titius-Bode law of planetary distances
•properties of
terrestrial and jovian planets
•radii, masses,
and composition of terrestrial planets
•radii, masses,
and composition of jovian planets and Sun
•asteroids, comets,
Pluto and Kuiper Belt Objects
Chapter 8:
•gravitational
contraction of gas cloud or nebula
•formation of disk
(Solar Nebula) around newborn Sun
•condensation of solids
according to temperature in disk
•accretion of
solids into planetesimals
•formation of
terrestrial planets
•formation of jovian planets
•formation of
Earth's Moon
•age of Solar
System from radioactive dating
Chapter 9:
•terrestrial
planet interiors
•seismic waves as
probes of Earth's interior
•metallic core by
differentiation and origin of magnetic fields
•core, mantle,
crust, lithosphere
•interior
heating/cooling processes
•shaping
terrestrial surfaces by cratering, volcanism, tectonics,
erosion
•differences due
to planetary size and distance from the Sun
•cratering on surfaces of Moon, Mercury
•Mars: evidence of
volcanism, tectonics, past surface water
•Venus: evidence
of volcanism, tectonics, past resurfacing
•Earth: plate
tectonics and associated structures