The reason that small planets tend to lose interior heat faster than larger planets is essentially the same as the reason that
A) a large baked potato takes longer to cool than a small baked potato.
B) gas bubbles form and rise upward in boiling water.
C) Earth contains more metal than the Moon.
D) thunderstorms tend to form on hot summer days.
A
You might also like to view...
If an iron-0.77 % C steel is very rapidly cooled from 800°C to room temperature, the expected microstructure is described as _____________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
28Al decays by beta-minus decay. What is the daughter nucleus?
A. 28Mg B. 27Al C. 24Na D. 28Si E. 27Si
What approach for estimating the distance to a galaxy requires the measurement of a galaxy's rotation speed?
A. Type Ia supernova as standard candles B. the Tully-Fisher method C. Hubble's law D. Cepheid variables as standard candles
In a thick bed of sedimentary rocks we find an igneous dike. The order of formation is
A) together. B) igneous before sedimentary. C) sedimentary before igneous. D) unknown.