ENVIRON 102 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Carbon Dioxide, Ecosystem, Climate Change
20 Nov 2018
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Chapel (cid:498)hill(cid:499), (cid:498)hills(cid:499)borough = different type of rock. Fossils: earth compared to other planets: Solar system formed about 4. 6 billion years ago: universe is about 13 billion years old. Venus: apparent cloud cover was assumed to imply eternal wetness, hotter than hot side of mercury (~480 degrees celsius, atmosphere traps the heat (even though it"s farther away from the sun than, isothermal despite slow rotation. Mercury: atmosphere traps the heat and also presence of strong winds that circulate the atmosphere, evidence of both volcanism and craters, no surface water; likely present in the past, weak ionosphere. Gas giants: jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune: extensive and noxious gaseous atmospheres, interest in possibility of life on gas giants" moons. Outer molten core: generates magnetic field, poles. Lithosphere: crust and uppermost layer of mantle; region of interaction with biosphere. Land is 1/3 of surface; highly varied topography. Divided into continental crust and ocean crust.
