Earth Science Ch 4: Earth in Space, Test Review

What city does the prime meridian go through?

When compression in the protosun caused enough heat, this type of fusion began

The rigid outer part of the earth, with crust and outer mantle is:

Earth takes about:

The zero line for longitude is called the:

collisions with particles, radioactivity, and forest fires raised early earth's heat

The mantle contains: 

A cloud of dust and gas in space is known as a:

The inner core is:

Which direction does the Earth travel?

How many time zones are there?

Earth rotates in a period of about

Lithospheric plates float on the: 

The inner core contains a high concentration of:

True or false: Earth was very hot early in its history.

The solar system formed about:

When is spring equinox?

Planets and moons each formed from:

We have a magnetosphere, or magnetic field, due to:

When is fall equinox?

Foucault's pendulum is evidence for:

When do solstices occur?

When is summer solstice?

Winds shifting to the left or right of their pressure-caused direction is evidence of the:

The outer core is:

When is Earth closest to the sun? 

The apparent motion of a nearby star compared to more distant stars when viewed seasonally is:

When do equinoxes occur?

When is winter solstice?