Test #4 - Wednesday, April 20
Review notes, chapter
summaries, homework assignments, chapter questions.
Chapter 10:
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sources and
losses of terrestrial planet atmospheres
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example of
Earth's atmosphere: composition, temperature, pressure
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Planetary albedo and temperature
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Greenhouse effect
and temperature
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Weather,
circulation patterns, clouds, precipitation, climate changes
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atmosphere of
Mars: composition, seasons, ice caps, dust storms, evidence of surface water
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atmosphere of
Venus: composition, cloud layers, runaway greenhouse effect
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atmosphere of
Earth: interaction of light and atmosphere in different layers,
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Carbon Dioxide
Cycle and temperature stability mechanisms
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Carbon Dioxide
and global warming
Chapter 11:
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Jovian planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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Spacecraft
missions
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Composition,
density, sizes
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Interior
structure, magnetic fields
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Atmospheres:
colors, bands, spots
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Jupiter's large
moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
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Saturn's large
moon: Titan (atmosphere) and Huygens probe
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Saturn's rings:
composition, resonances, formation
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Rings of Jupiter,
Uranus, Neptune
Chapter 12:
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asteroid
properties and orbits: Vesta, Ceres
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meteors and
meteorites (primitive, processed)
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comets: dirty
snowballs
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Comets Holmes,
Hale-Bopp, Hyakutake
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comet nucleus,
halo, plasma tail, dust tail; changes with heating
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comet debris and
meteor showers
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comet origins in Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt
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Kuiper Belt Objects: Eris and
Pluto
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Collision of
Comet SL9 with Jupiter
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Collisions and
impacts on Earth (extinction of the dinosaurs)