final exam- geology

geology 103 final study guide

6 cards·by sharkeatsher

what is not part of being a planet

rocky mass

earth is round because____

its interior rockis warm enough to flow slowly in response to gravity

Our moon___

was formed by the collision of earth with a mars-sized protoplanet

because of earth's rotation, a swinging penulum rotates about a vertical axis once every twently-four hours

true

how far is the sum away from earth

93 million miles

our show old is our sun?

less than 5 billion years old (3rd or 4th generation star)