Earth/Space Science Honors Quarter 3 Review

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Across
  1. 2. According to the ______ Theory, our universe formed 13.8 billion years ago and is still expanding today.
  2. 3. Imagine today is a Solar Eclipse, one can expect a ______ tide due to the positioning of the sun, moon, and Earth.
  3. 5. Astronomers predict the final stage of our sun’s life to be a _______.
  4. 9. Radio waves from the Sun have a ______ frequency than Ultraviolet light (lower or higher)
  5. 12. Surface ocean currents flow from low to high ______ since heat goes from the equator to the poles.
  6. 14. Mercury has a magnetic field just like us, so it must have a liquid _______.
  7. 15. Cosmic Background radiation is Currently which form of light?
  8. 17. Unit of measurement to find the distance between two planets in the same solar system
  9. 20. Mars has evidence of plate tectonics, thus convection must have occurred in Mar’s _______.
  10. 21. A star’s ______ determines the stages of its evolution.
  11. 22. When an asteroid crash into a planet, it transfers heat via _________
  12. 25. Mars’s canyons formed when ancient rivers cut through mountains and carried the sediment via ________.
Down
  1. 1. Mars has mountains, mountains forms when two tectonic plates ________.
  2. 4. We’ve never been to Uranus, but we can find its temperature using a ________ telescope
  3. 6. Currently our sun is powered by the nuclear fusion of ______ atoms in its core.
  4. 7. Our sun will not have this explosive end to its life since its mass is not high enough
  5. 8. Stars and Solar systems are formed when this space cloud of gas and dust collapses
  6. 10. Radiation is the transfer of heat via ______ waves since these waves do not need matter to travel
  7. 11. You cannot undergo ________ in space since there is no oxygen to breathe!
  8. 13. A Star’s ______ determines its color
  9. 16. (yay/nay): Due to the doppler effect, red galaxies are further AND have a longer wavelength than blue ones.
  10. 18. When you travel outside our planet, your mass remains constant but your weight changes due to other planets having a different ______ than us.
  11. 19. Think about convection, air/water with a HIGH density _________ (rise/fall)
  12. 23. The moon has no water or air, just a _____sphere (bio,cryo,geo,atmo,hydro)
  13. 24. Earth has seasons due to our ________, and our revolution causes seasons to change.