Write your name here: ______________________________________________________ This assignment is due in Thursday October 21. It will be excellent study material for the midterm exam. 1. Draw a picture of the interior of Earth that includes the core, mantle and crust. Include information about the properties and composition of the zones. 2. What is a comet made of, and what causes it to appear the way it does? 3. Label the diagram below with the letters of these locations. If there is no place with this orientation, leave that letter off of the diagram. A. Sun rays are directly overhead on December 21. B. Sun rays are directly overhead on March 21. C. Sun rays are directly overhead on September 22. D. Location of the Tropic of Cancer. E. Location of the Arctic Circle. 4. Draw a picture of our solar system. Label Sun and the planets. Include location of the asteroid belt and the Kuiper Belt. 5. Describe the events of the formation of our solar system. 6. Draw a picture of Sun that includes the photosphere, chromosphere and corona. Label these. List features of each of these three next to its name. 7. Describe the general structure of the Milky Way galaxy, including our location.
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