Astronomy and Space Sciences

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 05.04.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Student Population
  3. Objectives
  4. Overview
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. BackgroundContent
  7. Volcanoes in the Solar System
  8. Volcanoes on Earth
  9. Radioactivity
  10. Pangaea
  11. Plate Tectonics
  12. Volcanic Landforms
  13. Volcanoes in Space
  14. Io and Its Volcanoes
  15. Types of Volcanoes on Io
  16. Comparing Volcanoes: Earth and Io
  17. Lesson Plans
  18. Lesson 1: Radioactive Decay
  19. Lesson 2: A Scissor Cut: Snipping away at the Decay Process
  20. Lesson 3 Making and Mapping a Volcano
  21. Lesson 4: Galilean Satellites
  22. Annotated Bibliography
  23. Appendix

Volcanoes in the Solar System

Mary Jefferson

Published September 2005

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Answer Key

A Scissor Cut: Skipping Away at the Decay Process

1. 1/8, 7/8

2. Shorter or less parent atoms, 1/16, 15/16

3. Decreases exponentially. Increases proportionally

4. No, a half will always remain.

5. Parent Exponential Decay, Daughter ñexponential growth

6. ?, 15/16, 31/32

?, 1/16, 1/32

7. 1

8. Constant

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