Test #3 - Friday, October 31

Review notes, chapter summaries, homework assignments, chapter questions.

Chapter 7:

· orbital and spin properties of planets

· Titius-Bode law of planetary distances

· properties of terrestrial and jovian planets

· radii, masses, and composition of terrestrial planets

· radii, masses, and composition of jovian planets and Sun

· asteroids, comets, Pluto and Kuiper Belt Objects

Chapter 8:

· gravitational contraction of gas cloud or nebula

· formation of disk (Solar Nebula) around newborn Sun

· condensation of solids according to temperature in disk

· accretion of solids into planetesimals

· formation of terrestrial planets

· formation of jovian planets

· formation of Earth’s Moon

· age of Solar System from radioactive dating

Chapter 9:

· terrestrial planet interiors

· seismic waves as probes of Earth’s interior

· metallic core by differentiation and origin of magnetic fields

· core, mantle, crust, lithosphere

· interior heating/cooling processes

· shaping terrestrial surfaces by cratering, volcanism, tectonics, erosion

· differences due to planetary size and distance from the Sun

· cratering on surfaces of Moon, Mercury

· Mars: evidence of volcanism, tectonics, past surface water

· Venus: evidence of volcanism, tectonics, past resurfacing

· Earth: plate tectonics and associated structures