Semester 2 astronomy study guide

  1. Climate change

    1. What is it 

    2. How does it effect earth 

 

  1. Greenhouse effect

    1. What is it

    2. How it works

    3. What are greenhouse gasses

    4. Examples of greenhouse gasses

    5. Characteristics of greenhouse gasses 

    6. Comparing Earth and Mercury 

    7. What types of radiation make it through earth’s atmosphere

    8. What type of radiation gets  trapped 

    9. What type of radiation does earth give off 



  1. Carbon Cycle 

    1. What is it

    2. 3 cycles and what’s involved in each

    3. Length of time for each 

    4. Compare Venus, Mars, and Earth (greenhouse effect AND carbon cycle) 



Unit 6: Jovian and Exoplanets



  1. Jovian Planet Characteristics (6.1)

  2. How to “lock things in” on a spreadsheet (6.2)

  3. How your weight would change on other planets (6.2)

    1. Force equation (between two objects) and what affects how your weight would “change”

  4. Jupiter’s moons (6.3)

    1. Order of the moons

    2. What they resemble in regards to our own solar system