Comparative Urban Environments
Lesson Notes

What is the result of the greenhouse effect? a. heat is deflected from the atmosphere. b. heat is released from the atmosphere. c. heat is kept in the atmosphere. d. plants are able to grow in the tropics where the air is the heaviest.

Which environment would most likely not contain fossils? a a thick deposit of cracked, dried mud b sediment deposited in a sandy river bed c intrusive rock formed from cooled magma d layers of sand accumulated for a century

One of the brightest comets of the 20th century was comet hyakutake, which passed close to the sun in early 1996. the orbital period of this comet is estimated to be about 30,000 years. find the semi-major axis of this comet’s orbit. compare it to the average sun-pluto distance and to the distance to alpha centauri, the nearest star to the sun, which is 4.3 light-years distant.