ASTR 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tidal Locking, Rings Of Saturn, Inner Core

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: ASTR 103
• Professor: Harold Geller

Document Summary

Regarding the solar system in general and earth and moon in particular. Understand the moon"s period of rotation and revolution. The moons period of rotation and revolution are almost the same; so we see the same side of the moon all the time. The moon rotates exactly once every time it circles the earth. Understand the relationship of earth"s crust and mantle and continental drift. All the continents were once one big one. They appear to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Believe there was a meteor that smashed the gulf a mexico. Group of seismometers around the earth that read the seismic waves from earthquakes. It seems the inside is much more complicated than what we thought. "the theory that the earth"s crust is made of rigid plates that float on the asthenosphere" Consider the scientific evidence for plate tectonics and what forced scientists to accept the theory as fact.