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1. The runoff produced by melting snow
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Block mountains or fold mountains
Convergent tectonic plates
Snowmelt
2. One tidal cycle per day
Daylight saving time zones
Diurnal
Surface temperature differences
clouds
3. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
Scratch test
Galactic center
Volcano
Condensation
4. The movement (carrying away or displacement) of solids (sediment - soil - rock - and other particles) - usually by the agents of currents such as wind - water - or ice by downward or down - slope movement in response to gravity
Erosion
Colder
Erosion and land use
Solar radiation
5. 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
Full moon
Daylight saving time zones
Venus
Rainfall
6. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Surface temperature differences
River
World/global ocean
Sublimation
7. A major determiner of coastal climate
snow
cooling
Surface ocean temperature
Mohs' scale of hardness
8. On maps - the characteristics of an air mass are represented by two letters: The lowercase letter represents ________ - and the uppercase letter represents temperature
moisture
Rain shadow
Soil
Mantle plumes
9. The farther from the tropics you are positioned - the ________ the angle of the sun - This causes those locations to be cooler due to the indirect sunlight
Galactic center
Earth's crust
Plate tectonics
lower
10. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
Limestone
Scratch test
Opposite seasons
Types of galaxies
11. 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
Evapotranspiration
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Long - period comets
Meteorology
12. 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
Crust
Andromeda galaxy
Colder
The earth's structure
13. Continental polar (dry - cold air)
Galactic center
- cP
Galaxies
The most abundant minerals in the crust
14. Officially defined as sustained sea surface temperature anomalies of magnitude greater than 0.5
Parallax
Long - period comets
El Nino and La Nina
Major oceans
15. The tidal force produced by the sun is ____ as large as that produced by the moon
Comet
Polar air
46%
Distance
16. Due to a combination of differential heating and geometry - hen the sun rises - it is the tops of the mountain peaks which receive first light - and as the day progresses - the mountain slopes take on a greater heat load than the valleys - This resul
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Rainfall
Comet nuclei
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
17. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
Condensation
Climate
Mantle plumes
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
18. Two feldspars (orthoclase and plagioclase) - quartz - olivine - and augite - These five minerals are silicates - built from interlocking silicon and oxygen atoms
Surface temperature
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Speed of light
Evapotranspiration
19. 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
Hydrologic cycle
Runoff
Convergent plate movements
Snowmelt
20. The earth is believed to be about ___ billion years old
El Nino and La Nina
Plate tectonics
Eclipses
5.6
21. Composed of the fragments of other types of rocks - Cover 75 to 80% of the earth's land area - Often deposited in distinct parallel layers - Weather and erosion break down other rock types into sediments - Over time - the sediments become cemented an
Orogenic zones
5.6
Crust
Sedimentary rocks
22. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
- mP
lower elevation
Cirrus clouds
Tropical air
23. 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
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Uniformitarianism
cooling
Lunar eclipse
24. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Erosion and land use
Rain shadow
Geology
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
25. Air currents move clouds around the globe and cloud particles collide - grow - and fall out of the sky as ________ - Most of it falls back into the oceans or onto land - where the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff - portion of run
Conglomerates
precipitation
Evaporation
Clastic
26. Giant masses of solid rock that float upon the earth's mantle - These plates move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries...
cooling
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Tidal range
Full moon
27. Refers to the long - term weather patterns of a large geographical area and takes into account temperature - humidity - and precipitation
29.5
World/global ocean
Neap tide/neaps
Climate
28. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
Mountain
10000
Long - period comets
Comet nuclei
29. Classified as warm - water or cold - water currents
Surface ocean currents
Winter solstice
Sublimation
Mid - oceanic ridge
30. The tendency of a moving object to stay in a straight line or a stationary object to remain in place - Without _______ - a planet would be pulled into the sun
Inertia
Estuary
Snowmelt
Clastic
31. Comprised of the crust and the rigid uppermost part of the mantle - broken up into tectonic plates (7 major and many minor) - ride on the asthenosphere
Types of clouds
Lithosphere
Latitude
Major oceans
32. A continuous drill would find gas - oil - and water in that order - The three substances occur in their order of density - with the lightest substance on top and the heaviest on the bottom
Inertia
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Petroleum exploration
33. Bodies similar to the sun but immensely distant - Closest stars are 4 light - years away
Block mountains or fold mountains
Full moon
Stars
Axis tilt
34. Occur along plate boundaries
Mineral color
Altostratus clouds
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Full moon
35. Volcanoes are also found in __________ - where the denser oceanic plates are forced under continental plates; this adds massive volumes of water to the mantle - allowing magma to melt more readily and rise to the surface to form volcanoes
Limestone
Subduction zones
El Nino
Solar wind
36. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Mantle
Block mountains or fold mountains
Cumulonibus clouds
Opposite seasons
37. Large - scale movements of the earth's lithosphere - - The theory encompasses the older concepts of continental drift (first half of 20th century) and seafloor spreading (1960s)
Plate tectonics
Chemical weathering
clouds
Evapotranspiration
38. Takes place when the moon passes between the earth and the sun - with the moon blocking the sunlight for about two minutes - A total ___________ may be seen only from a small zone on the earth
Long linear arcs
Cirrus clouds
Solar eclipse
The Gulf - Stream
39. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Pacific Ring of Fire
Evaporation
Tropical air
Stratus clouds
40. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
Clastic
Soil
Mineral color
larger planet
41. The resulting dust layer would act as a shield - blocking out much of the sun's rays - This would result in lower global temperatures and a general _____ of the earth
Sedimentation
cooling
Erosion and land use
5.6
42. The result of the buildup of once - living things
jet stream
Stars
Coral reef
Rainfall
43. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
Rainfall
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Groundwater
Erosion
44. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Nuclear fusion
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Crustal rocks
Conglomerates
45. The flow of water underground - in the vadose zone and aquifers - Subsurface water may return to the surface (as a spring or by being pumped) or eventually seep into the oceans
Tectonic plates
Chemical weathering
Comet
Subsurface flow
46. Water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil
Surface ocean temperature
Altostratus clouds
Stars
Evapotranspiration
47. Paleontology: Fossil evidence indicates the similarity of fossils on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean - Continental 'jigsaw puzzle': The outlines of the continents seem to fit together
The equator
Limestone
precipitation
Examples to support Continental drift theory
48. The layers of sediment deposited in a quiet environment - Common sites of deposition are lakes - deltas at the mouths of rivers - beaches and sandbars along the coast - and (most important) the marine environment
jet stream
Major oceans
Strata
larger planet
49. Loose collections of ice - dust - and small rocky particles - measuring a few kilometers or tens of kilometers across
Axis tilt
46%
Comet nuclei
Coral reef
50. An opening - or rupture - in a planet's surface or crust - which allows hot molten rock - ash - and gases to escape from below the surface - Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a p
Solar radiation
Long - period comets
Seasons
Volcano
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