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    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 1.

    Questions
    1. Write out the following in order of age:
    Earth
    Sun
    Universe
    Oldest: ___________
    ___________
    Youngest ___________

    2. Which of the parts of the Earth are made from


    rock and which are made from mostly iron?
    3. Give three ways in which scientists find out about
    the Earth and the Universe

    Answers:
    1. Universe Sun Earth
    2. Rock = crust and mantle
    Iron = outer and inner core
    3. Telescopes, probes, collecting fossils and rocks.
    Monitoring over time

    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 8.


    Questions
    1. Stars are formed from clouds of
    2. If a star is large enough it will explode and form a

    3. What is the process that releases energy in


    stars?
    4. How fast does light travel?

    Answers:
    1. Dust and gas
    2. Supernova
    3. Nuclear fusion
    4. 300 000km/s

    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 3.


    Questions
    1. Write down three pieces of evidence that led
    Alfred Wegener to develop the idea of continental
    drift
    2. What did other scientists think had happened?
    Was there any data or evidence to support their
    ideas?
    3. What other ideas could have explained Wegeners
    explanations?

    Answers:
    1. Matching shapes of continents, Matching rock
    types, matching fossils
    2. They thought that there might have been a land
    bridge but there is no evidence for this

    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 2.


    Questions
    Put the following in order of how scientists come about
    developing theories:
    A) The scientist presents their ideas to other
    scientists
    B) A scientists finds data in terms of observations or
    discoveries
    C) The scientists propose opposing ideas and discuss
    the findings
    D) The idea is adopted
    E) The scientist develops ideas to explain his
    observations

    Answers:
    BEAC-D

    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 5.


    Questions
    1. About how many plates are there on Earth?
    2. What makes the plates move?
    3. What do the movements cause?

    Answers:
    1. Around a dozen.
    2. The magma has convections currents which move
    the plates on top of it.
    3. They can cause earthquakes, volcanoes,
    submergence of rock and mountains.

    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 4.


    Questions

    1. Explain how the symmetrical magnetic stripes


    have evolved on the seafloor.
    2. How do scientists know about the oceanic ridges?
    3. What is an oceanic ridge and seafloor spreading?

    Answers:
    1. The Earths magnetic field changes every so often.
    The rock that comes from the ridge has the same
    magnetism as the Earth but when it cools it stays
    magnetic. When the field changes you see the
    zebra like pattern.
    2. They use computers to map the seafloor.
    3. An oceanic ridge is a group of mountains under the
    sea Seafloor spreading is where new seafloor is
    formed due to the moving continents.

    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 7.


    Questions
    Fill in the missing spaces:
    When all of the dinosaurs disappeared it was a _____
    _________. There is evidence for super _________
    and an _________ collision. However there is no
    explanation that has been decided upon as yet as there
    is not enough ______ to allow scientists to come to a
    conclusion.

    Answers:
    Mass extinction
    Volcano
    Asteroid
    Data

    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 6.


    Questions
    1. Write a list of things that governments could do
    to save lives in the event of a geohazard.
    2. If an asteroid was heading towards Earth what do
    you think the government could do?
    3. Write a list of all the geohazards that could
    affect people around the world

    Answers:
    1. Education (e.g. earthquake drills), warning
    systems, exit roads for disasters, better
    construction methods.
    2. If the asteroid was small, the government could
    set off a nuclear bomb towards it in the hope of
    deflecting its path away from the Earth.
    3. Tsunami, earthquake, volcano, super volcano,
    flooding.

    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 10.

    http://oceanusmag.whol.edu/v41n1/macdonald.html
    www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/explorer/multimedia.ht
    ml
    www.spaceguard.ias.rm.cnr.it/Spaceguard
    www.arm.ac.uk/impact-hazard/

    P1 The Earth in the Universe. Card 9.


    Questions
    1. Why are telescopes put into space?
    2. Which is the most famous telescope that has sent
    many pictures back from space?
    3. What does the red shift show us?
    4. What are the three things that could eventually
    happen to the galaxies in the Universe?

    Answers:
    1. To avoid the light pollutions from Earth and to get
    a clearer picture above the atmosphere.
    2. The Hubble telescope.
    3. That galaxies are moving away from each other
    very fast.
    4. They could continue to expand, they could remain
    in the same positions or they could be pulled back
    together by gravity (the big crunch).

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