Exam 6: Earth and Its Moon: Our Cosmic Backyard

At what phase would you expect to find extremely high and low tides?

Seismic waves are most useful for mapping

The oxygen in our atmosphere is produced by .

Where is the newest material in the Earth's crust found?

A hot, molten body of different materials will become .

radiation is trapped close to our surface by the greenhouse effect.

The lunar highlands appear brighter than the mare, because these highlands are due to meteor impact that completely avoided the mare.

Due to its larger mass, the Sun's gravitational effect on Earth's tides is greater than the Moon's.

Note at least three surface features that are driven by plate tectonics.