Quiz 2 Review: Terrestrial Planets and Moons

Cycles of the Moon
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-Phases of moon: what causes them, how the moon looks in the sky
-Saros cycle, line of nodes, solar vs. lunar eclipse

Copernican Revolution
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-Setup of Earth-centric cosmology
-Sun-centric hypothesis, how it simplifies planetary motion
-Galileo's proof of Sun-centric hypothesis
-Galileo's contributions to astronomy and why they are significant

Origin and history of the Moon
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-Giant impact hypothesis
-Composition of Moon, how it relates to Moon's origin
-Four pieces of evidence for bombardment

Mercury
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-Giant impact hypothesis, how it relates to Mercury's composition
-Why Mercury didn't get a moon from its impact

What went wrong with Venus
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-Surface temperature
-Greenhouse effect
---How it works in detail (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/climate_change/html/greenhouse.stm to supplement your class notes)
---Which gases are involved
---Role of oceans and plate tectonics
-Type(s) of volcanoes
-Similarities with Earth

Mars
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-Similarities with and differences from Earth
-Evidence that Mars once had liquid water
-How Mars lost its liquid water
-Type(s) of volcanoes
-Nanobacteria controversy

How to use Kepler's law of orbits, which units are appropriate

Earth
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-Structure of Earth, how we know
-Seismology: P-waves, S-waves, how they travel
-Origin of Northern Lights
-Origin of oxygen in atmosphere