The last quiz

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How to read a nutrition label

How many servings of this food product contains enough energy to raise 240,000 g of water by 1 °C?

What is a major molecular difference between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids?

Fish that swim in the cold north Atlantic would have what type of fatty acid in their blood?

A. Saturated fatty acidsB. Unsaturated fatty acidsC. TriglyceridesD. Salty Fatty acids

Which group of fatty acids has the most hydrogen?

A

B

Which one is a Trans-Fatty Acid?

A

B

C

Biotite mica Muscovite mica

Which of these minerals do you think contains a transition metal?

What two fundamental forces combine to make this shape for nuclei formation?

Energy

Distance between nucleons

Nuclear energy. Mass

Which has more mass?a. A proton by itselfb. A proton in an Iron nucleusc. A proton in a Helium nucleusd. An electron in a hydrogen atom

What nuclear process is this?

What are the three types of radioactive decay?

Don’t me

Half Life What is the Half Life of this radioactive

sample?

Which type of wave won’t travel through liquids?

A. compression wavesB. raptor wavesC. shear wavesD. circularly polarized

waves

Certain types of seismic waves will not propagate through the outer core. This is convincing evidence that the outer core is

a) Molten or liquid

b) Metallic

c) Composed primarily of oxides, silicates, and other minerals

d) Exactly located at the center of the earth

e) Very dense

State 3 other pieces of evidence for Pangaea/plate tectonics

The puzzle piece evidence

Which feature is the oldest?

A

B

C

D

The interior structure of Earth has been determined mostly from

a) Drilling

b) Exploration

c) X-Rays

d) Earthquake waves

e) Chemical analysis

What is the estimated age earth and how do we postulate it?

A. 13.7 billion yrs, Uranium-Lead datingB. 4.5 billion yrs, Various radiometric dating

methodsC. 4.5 million yrs, Carbon datingD. 6,000 yrs, Archbishop James Usher

What are these famous graphs called?

Name one natural cause of climate change

What time eras do the 3 colored regions represent?

1

2

3

Why do optical telescopes work better when they are in space?

What part of the electromagnetic spectrum allows us to look into the center of the Milky-Way?

What is true about the moon?

A. We always see the same side

B. Its orbital period is the same as the Earth’s about the sun

C. It rotates around its own axis faster than it orbits Earth

D. It is not in hydrostatic equilibrium

E. The temperature ranges from 90 to 370 Fahrenheit.

Come up with your own mnemonic acronym device to memorize the planets

Name one method used to measure astronomical distances.

Quiz: Three main sequence stars have different colors, but the same brightness. Which one is closest to the Earth?

1. The bluest one2. The reddest one3. The yellowest

one4. Impossible to tell

from color

A very massive star (more than 10 times the size of our sun) becomes what at the very end of its life?

a) Black holeb) Neutron starc) White dwarfd) Pulsare) Red giant

According to the currents models of stellar evolution, our sun will eventually become a

a) Cloud of hydrogen gas

b) Protostarc) Neutron stard) Black holee) White dwarf

Why does fusion stop at Iron?

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Atomic mass number

Fe

1. Elements lighter than iron release energy when they undergo fission.

2. There is an energy density limit of the fundamental forces

3. Elements heavier than iron release energy when they undergo undergo fusion.

Name one piece of experimental evidence in support of general relativity.