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Provide a brief overview of the type of plate tectonic boundary and the landforms associated with this place. Include images and / or video to describe as well.
What is the approximate size of the giant Yellowstone volcano? How hot is the rock beneath Yellowstone? What is unique about the Yellowstone hotspot?
What are three human factors that scientists must take into account when predicting future carbon emissions?
Describe the diversity of an urchin barren ecosystem versus a healthy kelp ecosystem. How can citizens involve themselves in protecting kelp forests?
How will the offspring be affected if one of the gametes or one of the parents carries an impaired number of haploid chromosomes?
Discuss at least three ways that you are running too fast. Additionally, address three ways that we as individuals and as a community can do to slow down?
Problem: A meteor and a meteorite are exactly the same is that true or false? Explain.
How might we achieve that, given that the standard of living we enjoy in the USA would not be possible for all people?
Describe the roles of insulin and glucagon in maintaining homeostasis. Use cellular respiration to explain why a diabetic person experiences great fatigue.
Describe how Hox genes can control the body plan of animals. What specifically does ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny mean and how accurate is this statement?
Explain how the scientific method was or might be applied to solve a problem or answer a question within the scenario.
What sort of events can wipe out life on a planet? How likelihood of extinction for life vary depending upon a star system's distance from center of Milky Way?
How do we know that the universe is expanding, and how do we use the expansion rate to estimate the age of the universe?
What does the Big Bang theory tell us about the beginning of the universe? What evidence is there to support the Big Bang theory?
An astronomer makes a plot of the recessional velocities of a number of galaxies versus their Distances. What does 1/slope of this plot represent?
Now that you have experience with this subject, respond to his thought with a hundred word (minimum) personal reaction.
In massive stars elements heavier than hydrogen, helium, and carbon can be made. Why does it take higher and higher temperature to fuse heavier elements?
How does the amount of dark matter influence the speed of stars near the outer edge of the galaxy? Remove all dark matter from the galaxy. Describe what you see
Visit a science or technology museum and write a page report of your experience. Comment on impacting new information you have learned.
What measurements exist about weather on the Mars surface? Are there significant storms that occur at surface of Mars? If so, how do we know about these storms?
Compare and contrast the following galaxy types: radio, seyfert, quasars, and blazers. Why are quasars the most energetic objects ever discovered?
Where does a majority of star formation occur in spiral galaxies? Why? What the differences between open clusters and globular clusters?
If the planets in our solar system were made in a cloud other than the one. How would the solar system look different from the one we are familiar with?
Did the Universe begin or has it always existed as was believed at that time? Will it again collapse expand to a certain point and then stop, or expand forever.
Consider two stars A and B. If star A is 10 times hotter than star B but radius of star A is half the star B. Which star is more luminous and by what factor?