Geology 2400: Solar System

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Geology 2400 is a course where students are taught different examination of the earth such as the solar system, interior surface of the earth, atmosphere, and relationships of earth systems such as natural disasters. Three essential concepts I mastered was: earthquake’s wave, the planets, and minerals. First, one scheme of a natural disaster is an earthquake. An earthquake is the violent shaking of the ground which sometimes causes great destructions. Earthquakes happened due to seismic waves. A seismic wave is a wave in the earth that is produced by an earthquake. In addition, body waves play a big role in earthquakes. Primary wave (P), is the fastest and it is compressional meaning it can pass through liquids gasses and solids. A secondary wave(S) is the second fastest wave that is shearing, meaning it can only go through solids. Nest, the surface waves also known as the L waves, travel along the surface. For example, these types of waves look like “ripples” moving vertically up and down in motion. On the contrary, love waves (LQ) are horizontal waves and …show more content…

All planets orbit within 3 of the plane of the ecliptic. In addition, all planets also orbit in a prograde orbit which means they all orbit in the same direction. There is a total of four terrestrial planets and 5 Jovian planets. A terrestrial planet is a rocky planet that is composed of rocks or metals. For example, Mercury, Venus earth, and Mars are examples of terrestrial planets because they are small rocky and contain an atmosphere. Earth and Mars, for instance, has a thin atmosphere whereas Venus has a hot thick atmosphere. Jovian planets are the giant planets such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto all have big gasses and many moons. Jupiter, for instance, is a big gas ball mad up of the elements Hydrogen and Helium. All five planets also have rings which mean the planet has a disc orbiting around the

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