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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
Orogenic zones
Igneous rocks
freshwater springs
Full moon
2. Sun heats water in the oceans - Water evaporates as vapor into the air - Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor...- Over time - the water reenters the ocean - where the water cycle started
Surface ocean temperature
Scratch test
Galactic center
Hydrologic cycle
3. A region of the earth that has uniform standard time - usually referred to as the local time - divided into standard and daylight saving (or summer)
Time zone
Hydrologic cycle
50-100
snow
4. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
Crust
Petroleum exploration
11
Continental drift
5. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
Hydrologic cycle
Precipitation
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Mineral color
6. The runoff produced by melting snow
Orogenic zones
Law of superposition
Snowmelt
The Gulf - Stream
7. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
Long linear arcs
freshwater springs
Rainfall
- mP
8. The earth is believed to be about ___ billion years old
5.6
Long linear arcs
Major oceans
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
9. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
Polar air
Evaporation
Axis tilt
Differential heating
10. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
Tidal range
Nuclear fusion
Weight and mass
Volcano
11. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Meteorology
Gravity and inertia
Mantle
Geology
12. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
Surface temperature
Solar eclipse
- mP
Petroleum exploration
13. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface - water bodies (and the ocean) as...
Eclipses
groundwater discharge
California coast
Daylight saving time zones
14. The precipitation that is intercepted by plant foliage and eventually evaporates back to the atmosphere rather than falling to the ground
Canopy interception
Colder
El Nino
Earth
15. Take up about 1/3 of the earth's land surface - many are formed by rain shadows - Usually have a large diurnal (day) and seasonal temperature range - with high daytime temperatures
Orogenic zones
Deserts
Polar air
Major oceans
16. The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean - and thus its temperature extremes are buffered by the water - The result is that the South Pole is consistently _______ during the southern winter than the North Pole during the northern winter
Sedimentary rocks
15
Colder
The most abundant minerals in the crust
17. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Nuclear fusion
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Climate
Precipitation
18. Used to arrange strata in a standard order - Used to measure the amount of radioactive decay in minerals and calculate the time at which the rock formed
La Nina
Uniformitarianism
The geological time scale
Density
19. The motive force behind land breezes and sea/lake breezes - also known as on - or off - shore winds - Land absorbs and radiates heat faster than water - but water releases heat over a longer period of time
- cP
Sun's gravity
The big bang theory of cosmology
Differential heating
20. Condensed water vapor that falls to the earth's surface - Most precipitation occurs as rain - but also includes snow - hail - fog drip - graupel - and sleet
Precipitation
Sedimentation
Surface temperature
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
21. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Erosion and land use
Mid - oceanic ridge
Major oceans
Maritime air
22. Weather occurs primarily due to density (temperature and moisture) differences between one location and another - These differences can occur due to the angle of the sun at any particular spot - which varies by latitude from the tropics
Why weather occurs
5.6
Extrusive
Solar System
23. A land form that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area - with a peak - Usually produced by the movement of lithospheric plates
Strata
Mountain
Types of galaxies
Lithosphere
24. Deviates by an angle of approximately 23.5 degrees - Thus - at any given time during summer or winter - one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the sun - This exposure alternates as the earth revolves in its orbit
Galaxies
Runoff
The equator
Axis tilt
25. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Strata
- cP
Tropical air
Equinoxes
26. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Time zone
Seasons
Sublimation
Semidiurnal
27. Occurs when the moon sets at sunset - Then the moon is between the earth and the sun - so we see only the dark half of the moon
New moon
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Percolation
Limestone
28. Believed to originate at a much greater distance from the Sun - in a cloud (the Oort cloud) consisting of debris left over from the condensation of solar nebula - Comets are thrown from the outer planets or nearby stars - or as a result of collisions
Coral reef
Cumulonibus clouds
Long - period comets
Condensation
29. Darkens the moon as the earth passes between it and the sun - casting a shadow on the moon - may be seen from anywhere the moon is visible - about half of the earth
Gravity and inertia
Smaller regions of the oceans
Lunar eclipse
Subduction zones
30. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Snow packs
Transpiration
Earth's crust
cooling
31. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
Extrusive
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Ways magma can form
Condensation
32. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
World/global ocean
Time zone
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
33. The outermost part of the earth's interior is made up of two layers...
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Deserts
Stars
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
34. Somewhat cooler disturbances in the photosphere
Divergent plate movements
Sunspots
11
Continental air
35. Traces of ancient life preserved in the strata as shells - footprints - and the like - Soft plant and animal tissues decompose quickly in the presence of decay bacteria - which exist wherever oxygen exists
Fossils
Earth
River
Venus
36. Bodies similar to the sun but immensely distant - Closest stars are 4 light - years away
Winter solstice
Parallax
Snowmelt
Stars
37. The spectra of distant objects display a red shift - which is interpreted as meaning that they are rapidly receding from us - This apparent expansion of the universe has given rise to the big bang theory of cosmology - in which one primeval mass expl
Seasons
Latitude
The big bang theory of cosmology
jet stream
38. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
larger planet
The equator
Planets
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
39. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
La Nina
Orogenic zones
Mid - oceanic ridge
3/4
40. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
Major oceans
50-100
Differential heating
Surface temperature
41. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
New moon
Uniformitarianism
Sedimentary rocks
Gravity and inertia
42. Continental polar (dry - cold air)
Types of galaxies
- cP
groundwater discharge
Latitude
43. One tidal cycle per day
Comet nuclei
Latitude
Minerals
Diurnal
44. The degrees north or south of the equator
lower elevation
Parallax
Latitude
aquifers
45. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
Daylight saving time zones
Evaporation
Distance
Weight and mass
46. Test the item against materials of known hardness; for example - use your fingernail or the graphite in a pencil to attempt to scratch the items. This process should result in assigning a relative hardness to the unknown items.
Precipitation
Law of superposition
Altostratus clouds
Scratch test
47. Travels in an orbit that is slightly elliptical (oval) - and so the distance from the sun ranges from 91.5 to 94.5 million miles - Its daily rotation deforms the earth to a flattened spheroid - with a polar radius slightly less than the equatorial ra
Diurnal
Earth
Strata
Moon
48. On maps - the characteristics of an air mass are represented by two letters: The lowercase letter represents ________ - and the uppercase letter represents temperature
percolation
clouds
moisture
River
49. Officially defined as sustained sea surface temperature anomalies of magnitude greater than 0.5
El Nino and La Nina
percolation
Semidiurnal
cooling
50. After the moon has waxed through crescent - quarter - and gibbous phases - a ________ appears - At that time - the moon rises at sunset - and we see all of its illuminated side - Then the phase wanes gradually to another new moon
Earth
Full moon
moisture
El Nino