Example of of how mass and energy apply to living systems

There is a theory that indicates that dinosaurs became extinct when about 65 million years ago, a large asteroid hit the earth surface. dust caused by this collision blocked the sunlight reaching the earth's surface and many forms of life became extinct due to the cold. fearing this threat, how large the radius of an asteroid should you be looking for if the dangerous asteroid size is approximately the same as the one that killed the dinosaurs? available data suggests that about 18% of that asteroid's mass ended up as a dust spread evenly over earth after eventually settling out of the upper atmosphere. about 0.0180 g/cm^2 of dust, which is chemically different than the earth's rock, covered the earth's surface. typical asteroids have a density of about 1.9 g/cm^3. now that we know the size of the asteroid, how much energy was released during impact, assuming all of it was just the kinetic energy of the asteroid right before the impact?

From center station, a train departs every 30 minutes on the fast line and a train departs every 50 minutes on the state line. if two trains depart from center station at 8: 00 a.m., one on each of the two lines, what is the next time that two trains, one on each line, will depart at the same time?

In which situation has the independent variable for the experiment been changed? check all that apply. changed from counting the number of duckweed at day 0 and day 14 to counting them every day changed from testing duckweed growth in beakers to testing duckweed growth in large outdoor tanks changed from testing the effect of ph on duckweed growth to testing the effect of light levels on duckweed growth changed from testing the effect of acid ph on duckweed growth to testing the effect of basic ph on duckweed growth