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What layers of the earth does the lithosphere include?

Upper mantle, crust

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List similarities and differences between the asthenosphere and lithosphere

Lithosphere has rigid rock and asthenosphere has soft rock

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What layer of the Earth is the thickest?

Mantle

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What layer of the earth is the thinnest?

Crust

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What is earths, inner core composed of?

Nickel and iron

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What is the process of heat transfer that occurs within the mantle? Does this occur in solids liquids or both?

Convection and it occurs in both

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What is crust made of and why?

Granite and basalt

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What are seismic waves and why do scientist study these waves?

Waves that travel through or over earth to generate earthquakes

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What can GPS data tell scientist about play tectonics?

They determine The movement

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What are plate tectonics?

Earth with those few divided into seven plates are glide over the plate

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What are plate boundaries?

Border between two tectonic plates

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What is a convection current and what effects does it have on earth?

Transfers, energy in mantle and causes the hotter, magma rise, and cooler magma to sink

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The majority of the mass of our solar system is located where

By the sun

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What is a supernova?

Fusion stops in iron core collapses creates an explosion

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List the ratio plants in our solar system

Mercury Venus earth Mars

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List the Jovian planets in our solar system

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus Neptune

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Where are the Jovian planets located in our solar system?

The outer planets far from the sun

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Where are the terrorist real planets located in our solar system

The inner planets closer to the sun

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True or false our son is a high mass star

False

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What are the Jovian planets primarily composed of?

Gas dust ice

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What are their terrorist, real planets primarily composed of

Rock

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What planets have more moons, Jovian or tears real?

Jovian

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What is Kepler’s first law state?

Each planets orbit around the sun is an eclipse

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What is Kepler’s second last day?

The imaginary line joining a planet in the sun sweeps equal areas of space during equal time intervals as a planet orbits

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Kepler’s third law of planetary motion describes the relationship between what two thing

The period for a planet to orbit the sun increases rapidly with the radius of its or orbit

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