Earth Sci Midterms

The process where small particles collided with each other to form larger bodies

• Nuclear Fusion

• Accretion

• Big Bang

• Final Flash

According to nuclear hypothesis, how was the Sun formed?

• Energy from a nearby supernova was reused and formed a huge ball of energy

• 99.8% of matter from a nebula collapsing into itself transformed into the Sun as we know it

• Nuclear fusion of materials in a nebula that collapsed in on itself due to a nearby supernova

• On the fourth day, the most divine deity created the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars to supplement the Earth

The shape of the Earth wherein instead of a perfect sphere, the equator bulges a bit and the poles are flatter.

first particles created from the Big Bang

When an object blocks sunlight from reaching another object

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Jovian planets

• Thick atmosphere
• Far from the Sun

• Rings
• Solid surface

Rocky bodies revolving around the sun too small to be considered planets

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Comet

Asteroid fragments that reach the Earth's atmosphere

• Asteroid

• Meteorite

• Meteor

• Comet

Theory that suggests the universe started as a singularity that kept expanding

• Big Bang

• Expanding Universe

• Nuclear Hypothesis

• Genesis

A Belgian priest that first suggested the Big Bang theory

• Georges Lemaitre

• Edwin Powell Hubble

• Galileo Galilei

• Archimedes