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Study Guide Review 1 Solar System and Inside the Earth
Our Solar System
1. ___________________ was the first scientist to successfully use a telescope to observe
the night sky.
2. ___________________explained why the moon orbits Earth.
3. The Geocentric Theory stated that ___________________________________________
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4. ___________________was the scientist that came up with the Geocentric Theory.
5. The Heliocentric Theory stated that ___________________________________________
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6. ___________________ was the scientist that came up with the Heliocentric Theory.
7. Geocentric and Heliocentric Theories were both proved to be false. What is one reason
why? _____________________________________________________________________
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8. If you were to watch the stars all night, they would seem to move across the sky at night,
in the ___________________________________________________________________
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9. During winter months observed from Northern latitudes, the constellation Orion will rise
in the East, travel across the night sky, and set in the West. Which BEST explains this
observation? _______________________________________________________________
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10. If we recorded the Sun's location in the sky every day at noon from September through
February, the ___________________ of the Sun in the sky will change.
11. Put the planets in order from smallest to largest. ________________________________
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12. Put the planets in order from the sun________________________________
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What are the main features of each planet in our Solar System?
13. Mercury ______________________________________________________________
14. Venus ______________________________________________________________
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15. Earth ______________________________________________________________
16. Mars ______________________________________________________________
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17. Jupiter ______________________________________________________________
18. Saturn ______________________________________________________________
19. Uranus ______________________________________________________________
20. Neptune ______________________________________________________________
21. Most asteroids can be found in three locations in our solar system. _________________
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22. What items in the solar system orbit the Sun? ______________________,
___________________, & _______________________
23. Venus is visible to the naked eye from Earth. Why will we
be able to see Venus BETTER at position Q in this picture? _________________________
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24. The farther away a planet is to the sun, _________________________________ will be
on that planet and the _______________________________ will be on that planet.
25. The dark, lava-covered lowlands of the Moon are called the __________________.
26. Draw a picture of the Sun, Earth, and Moon that shows the revolution pattern of the
Earth and the Moon.
27. Why does the amount of daylight change during the course of a year?______________
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28. When will the amount of sunlight and the amount of darkness in during one day be
exactly the same? ___________________________ and ___________________________
29. Draw what each phase of the moon looks like in the sky AND the position of the Moon
in relation to the Earth and the Sun.
New Moon
Waxing Crescent
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Waxing Gibbous
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Full Moon
Waning Gibbous
Third Quarter
Waning Crescent
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------30. A Lunar Eclipse is when the ____________________________________________
_________________________________Lunar Eclipse can only happen at ____________.
31. Draw a Lunar Eclipse
32. A Solar Eclipse is when the ____________________________________________
_______________________________. Solar Eclipse can only happen during the ______.
33. Draw a Solar Eclipse
34. Solar eclipses rarely occur because ________________________________________
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35. The Earth rotates on its axis at a tilt of 23.5°. This causes our seasons. What would
happen to the summer in the Northern Hemisphere if the axis tilt was changed to 30 degrees?
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36. What would happen to the summer in the Northern Hemisphere if the axis tilt was
changed to 15 degrees? ___________________________________________________
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37. What would happen if the Earth rotated faster (in fewer days) around the sun?
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38. What would happen if the Earth too longer to rotate around the sun? ______________
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39. What would happen if the spin of the Earth’s on its axis was faster? ______________
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40. What would happen if it took the Earth longer to spin on axis? ______________
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41. Which event in the life cycle of a star causes it to begin to glow?
______________
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42. The main component of most stars is _______________________.
43. What is a pulsar? _______________________________________________________.
Inside The Earth
44. A Convergent Boundary is a boundary is where two_____________ plates
________________________, or _____________.This can form _____________, and
__________________________.
45. A Divergent Boundary is where two tectonic plates ______________________ or
_____________. This can create __________________________and cause _____________
to rise to surface.
46. A Transform Boundary is where two tectonic places _____________each other. This
type of boundaries are where __________________________occur.
47. Why would a large, nonvolcanic mountain on a flat plain be very unusual on the Earth’s
surface? ________________________________________________________________
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48. List the six layers of the Earth. ____________________, ____________________,
_______________, __________________, __________________ and ________________.
49. A deep well or mine shaft goes through which layer or layers of Earth? _____________
50. When magma reaches Earth's surface it becomes ____________________.
51.
Earth’s crust
Section V is _______________________________
Section IV is _______________________________
Section III and II are ____________________________
Section I is _______________________________
52. Compared to rocks in Earth's crust, rocks in the mantle are more ___________.
53. Areas on Earth's surface that lie above the places where tectonic plates meet are
characterized by _______________________________ activity.
54. Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur in areas of the Pacific Ocean called “_________
________________” The main reason is that _______________________________
boundaries are found in that area.
55. A ________________is a common secondary effect of a large earthquake off the coast.
56. Uniformitarianism states that in an _______________________________ of rock,
_______________ rocks lie at the bottom and _____________________rocks lie at the top.
57. Since there are no rock layers that have fossils of both dinosaur and horse remains
scientists know that _______________________________________________________.
58. What is the MAIN reason that the continents look very different than they did 100
million years ago? ______________________________________________________
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59. Fossils of a particular animal species have been found in both southern Africa and South
America but nowhere else. The MOST LIKELY reason? In the past, Africa and South
America were ______________________________________________________
60. A fossil of an ___________________________was found in a rock outcrop on a
mountain. This probably means that the mountain _____________________________
after the fish died.