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Scientific Principles
  • Heliocentric theory (Copernicus)
  • Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
  • Continental drift
  • Expansion of the universe
  • The speed of light
Scientific Descriptions
  • Solar system (planets, in the proper order)
  • Parts and layers of the earth, from core to crust
  • Plates of the earth (North American, Cocos, Caribbean, South American, Nazca, African, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, Pacific)
  • Layers of the earth’s atmosphere
  • Major constellations
  • Birth, life, and death of a star
  • Phases of the moon
  • Tides
  • The “Big Bang”
Scientific Classifications
  • Types of clouds
  • Types of rocks/minerals
  • Types of stars and their characteristics (red giants, white dwarfs, variable stars, supernovas, pulsars, binary stars, black holes, neutron stars, etc.)
  • Classification of galaxies
  • Classes of planets
Memory Work
  • The planets of the solar system, in the proper order
  • The elements of the earth's crust (oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium)
  • The parts of the earth's (crust—oceanic and continental; mantle—lithosphere and asthenosphere; outer core; inner core)
  • The continents
  • The plates (North American, Cocos, Caribbean, South American, Nazca, African, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, Pacific)
  • Types of clouds
  • Types of stars and their characteristics (red giants, white dwarfs, variable stars, supernovas, pulsars, binary stars, black holes, neutron stars)
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