ASTR 1010 Fall 2007: Study Guide for Quiz #6

READING: Chapters 8 - 12.

Topics you should know and understand for Quiz #6 (not necessarily a complete list)

1) DEFINITIONS: Maria; highlands, rilles; pancake domes; tick volcanoes; corona; scarp; tesserae; Valles Marineris; Olympus Mons; Caloris Basin; Belts; Zones; Great Red Spot; Great Dark Spot; Liquid Metallic Hydrogen; Cassini Division; Valhalla.

2) OTHER THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: Why the sidereal day of the Earth increases with time; the most likely scenario for how the Moon formed, and the evidence for this scenario; the types of surface features found on the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Mercury, and how they were formed; the evidence that there was liquid water on Mars in the past; the relative ages of the surfaces of the terrestrial planets; the compositions of the atmospheres of the terrestrial planets; the names of the spacecraft that visited the different planets; what causes the belts and zones on the Jovian Planets; why Neptune and Uranus are blue; the interior structure of the Jovian Planets; the surface features on the Galilean Moons, their relative amount of geological activity, their relative surface density of craters, and their relative densities, and why these are correlated with their distances from Jupiter.