Test #4 - Friday, November 21

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

Chapter 10:

· sources and losses of terrestrial planet atmospheres

· example of Earth’s atmosphere: composition, temperature, pressure

· Planetary albedo and temperature

· Greenhouse effect and temperature

· Weather, circulation patterns, clouds, precipitation, climate changes

· atmosphere of Mars: composition, seasons, ice caps, dust storms, evidence of surface water

· atmosphere of Venus: composition, cloud layers, runaway greenhouse effect

· atmosphere of Earth: interaction of light and atmosphere in different layers,

· Carbon Dioxide Cycle and temperature stability mechanisms

· Carbon Dioxide and global warming

Chapter 11:

· Jovian planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

· Spacecraft missions

· Composition, density, sizes

· Interior structure, magnetic fields

· Atmospheres: colors, bands, spots

· Jupiter’s large moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto

· Saturn’s large moon: Titan (atmosphere) and Huygens probe

· Neptune’s Triton (Pluto look-alike)

· Saturn’s rings: composition, resonances, formation

· Rings of Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune

Chapter 12:

· asteroid properties and orbits

· meteors and meteorites (primitive, processed)

· comets: “dirty snowballs”

· Comets Holmes, Hale-Bopp, Hyakutake

· comet nucleus, halo, plasma tail, dust tail; changes with heating

· comet debris and meteor showers

· comet origins in Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt

· Kuiper Belt Objects: Eris and Pluto

· Collision of Comet SL9 with Jupiter

· Collisions and impacts on Earth (extinction of the dinosaurs)