EESC1187 - Geoscience and Public Policy Exam 1 || with 100% Error-free Solutions.
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12 correct answers number of tectonic plates
intraplate correct answers earthquakes that happen in the middle of plates
1616 correct answers year that the church condemned the sun-centered theory of the solar system as contrary to scripture
Galileo Galilei correct answers This scientist pr...
EESC1187 - Geoscience and Public Policy Exam 1 || with
100% Error-free Solutions.
12 correct answers number of tectonic plates
intraplate correct answers earthquakes that happen in the middle of plates
1616 correct answers year that the church condemned the sun-centered theory of the solar system
as contrary to scripture
Galileo Galilei correct answers This scientist proved Copernicus' theory that the sun was the
center of the solar system.
Arrested by the church for promoting heliocentrism.
Objects (w/o air resistance) will free fall at the same speed (hammer and the feather), Pisa
A contemporary of Kepler, Copernicus
Telescope
1755, all saints' day correct answers year/occasion of great lisbon earth quake
4.6 billion years correct answers scientific age of the earth
6000 correct answers biblical age of the earth
evolution correct answers a theory that the differences between modern plants and animals are
the result of changes that happened by natural processes over a very long period of time
geocentric correct answers earth-centered view of the universe
Ptolemy correct answers Scientist responsible for geocentric model
Used the concepts of epicycles and deferents to explain retrograde motion
Copernicus correct answers Heliocentric theorist
Cannot accurately predict motions of planets, adds epicycles to his model
Kepler correct answers "You can't do it with circles you have to do it with ellipses"
Described the position of the planets with ellipses
empirical correct answers derived strictly from observation, without a theoretical foundation
(Kepler, ellipses)
describe the observed behavior of phenomena, but don't provide a theoretical explanation of why
things behave the way they do
theoretical correct answers Ideas, abstract
explanations of how things work are based on fundamental understanding of the phenomenon
being explained
, Newton's Laws of Motion correct answers A body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion
continues to move in a straight line with a constant speed, unless acted upon by a force
The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force exerted on it and inversely
proportional to the object's mass
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
9.8 m/sec/sec correct answers Newton, On Earth, the acceleration due to gravity (g)
Newton's Law of Gravitation correct answers Every body attracts every other body with a force
that is directly proportional to the masses of the bodies and inversely proportional to the square
of the distance separating them
F=G(Mm/r^2)
age of science and reason correct answers The Great Lisbon Earthquake ushered in an era we
now know as...
act of god or natural disaster? correct answers Important scientific dichotomy addressed by Great
Lisbon Earthquake
Yes, but it's complicated... correct answers Does fracking cause earthquakes?
Cellular Seismology correct answers Earthquakes are concentrated where they have occurred in
the past
Fault lines, nuclear power plants aren't necessarily the main cause
Pre-Cambrian correct answers The era of time prior to 540 million years ago, covering 90 % of
Earth's history.
Think: half a billion years ago
geologic time scale correct answers A record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's
history.
Anthropocene correct answers Most recent period of geological time scale in history (past few
hundred years) when humans have significant global impact on planet Earth
Holocene correct answers The geological era since the end of the Ice Age about 12,000 years
ago.
Strata correct answers Layers of rock
Steno - studied how the positions of strata could yield relative ages of rock units
The Principle of Superposition correct answers In any sequence of "undisturbed" strata of
sedimentary rocks, the oldest layer is at the bottom and successively higher rocks are
successively younger
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