Links to the Reading Material
Key Terms
Places
asteroid belt
corona
highlands (lunar)
Kirkwood Gaps
Kuiper Belt
mare (maria) – know the major
ones and a few major craters too!
Oort comet cloud
photosphere
Things
1992 QB1
asteroids
Ceres
(now a dwarf planet)
comets
Dwarf Planets
Enceladus
Europa
Exoplanets (Extrasolar Planets)
Ganymede
Hale Bopp
Halley's Comet
hot Jupiters
Io
Jovian planets
meteors
Miranda
Near Earth Objects (NEO)
planetesimals
Rogue Planets (Orphan Planets)
Shoemaker-Levy 9
SNC meteorites (ALH84001)
terrestrial planet
Titan
Phenomena/Cycles
greenhouse effect
solar wind
sunspot cycle
Events
aurora
Carrington Event (September 2, 1859)
Chelyabinsk fireball
coronal mass ejection (CME)
K/T event ...
now also called the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg)
extinction event
Maunder minimum
meteor shower
sunspots
Tunguska impact
Theories
capture theory
double planet theory
collision ejection theory (aka.
giant impact hypothesis)
fission theory
planetesimal hypothesis
plate tectonics
Here are some great web sites you may want to visit several times:
Before you take Test #4, please try practice Quiz #4. This practice quiz has no point value, but gives you a chance to see typical test questions and gauge if you are really ready to take the test.
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