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1. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Groundwater
Chemical weathering
Hydrologic cycle
Mineral color
2. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the...
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3. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
freshwater springs
The earth's structure
Standard time zones
Estuary
4. The earth is believed to be about ___ billion years old
5.6
Why weather occurs
Long linear arcs
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
5. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Surface ocean currents
Erosion
Nuclear fusion
Eclipses
6. A huge ball of incandescent gases - Its mass is more than 300000 times that of the earth - Principal constituents are the lightest elements - hydrogen and helium
Sun
El Nino
Mechanical/physical weathering
3/4
7. 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
The big bang theory of cosmology
La Nina
Examples to support Continental drift theory
8. 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
Andromeda galaxy
Precipitation
11
New moon
9. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
Chemical sedimentary rocks
- mP
Axis tilt
Spring tide
10. Largest zone of the planet (68%); crystalline silicates - rich in magnesium - calcium - and iron; very hot and mainly solid - but local melting to magma is the source of volcanic eruptions
Block mountains or fold mountains
Colder
Mantle
Surface temperature
11. 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
Axis tilt
lower elevation
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Strata
12. The center of the sun may have a temperature of millions of degrees; the visible surface - the ______ - is about 6000
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
- cP
Photosphere
lower
13. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Long linear arcs
Mohs' scale of hardness
Divergent plate movements
Galactic center
14. Refers to the long - term weather patterns of a large geographical area and takes into account temperature - humidity - and precipitation
Precipitation
Daylight saving time zones
Climate
Conglomerates
15. A land form that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area - with a peak - Usually produced by the movement of lithospheric plates
Mountain
Groundwater
Convergent tectonic plates
El Nino and La Nina
16. Cirrus - Stratus - Cumulonimbus - Altostratus
Types of clouds
Rainfall
Inertia
larger planet
17. The degrees north or south of the equator
Latitude
Earth's crust
clouds
Crust
18. A ______________ - such as the Mid - Atlantic Ridge - has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart
Mid - oceanic ridge
Chaotic system
Mantle plumes
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
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
Weather phenomena on earth
Hydrologic cycle
Asteroids
Divergent plate movements
20. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels
jet stream
Coral reef
Air mass
Crust
21. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
Surface ocean temperature
Rainfall
Mineral color
Smaller regions of the oceans
22. Somewhat cooler disturbances in the photosphere
Comet nuclei
Sunspots
World/global ocean
The Gulf - Stream
23. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Latitude
Erosion and land use
Gravity and inertia
24. 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.
Metamorphic rocks
Scratch test
Mantle
Erosion
25. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the ________
15
Orogenic zones
Lunar eclipse
jet stream
26. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
Crust
Orogenic zones
Galaxies
Snowmelt
27. A major determiner of coastal climate
World/global ocean
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Surface ocean temperature
aquifers
28. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
Evaporation
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Altostratus clouds
Distance
29. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through direct contact with atmospheric conditions such as heat - water - ice - and pressure
Sun
Mechanical/physical weathering
Daylight saving time zones
Extrusive
30. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
Scratch test
Diurnal
Daylight saving time zones
Galaxies
31. 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
Volcano
aquifers
Subsurface flow
32. 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
Chaotic system
50-100
Erosion
33. Typically the tidal mouths of rivers and are often characterized by _____________ or silt carried in from terrestrial runoff - frequently from offshore
Subsurface flow
clouds
Sedimentation
Petroleum exploration
34. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Sun
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Short - period comets
Inertia
35. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Semidiurnal
Chemical weathering
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Cleavage
36. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Winter solstice
Orogenic zones
Sun
Cirrus clouds
37. Continental polar (dry - cold air)
The earth's structure
Divergent plate movements
- cP
Altostratus clouds
38. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
clouds
Snow packs
New moon
The Gulf - Stream
39. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through atmospheric chemicals or biologically produced chemicals (also known as biological weathering)
Chemical weathering
freshwater
lower
The distinction between asteroids and comets
40. Ancient astronomers found that eclipses occurred periodically and learned to predict them accurately - Lunar and solar
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Solar eclipse
Eclipses
Soil
41. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
Climate
Strata
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Snow packs
42. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
Differential heating
Solar radiation
Short - period comets
Daylight saving time zones
43. The best determiner of climate - as it is consistently and directly correlated with temperature - other factors: Rain shadows - as well as water currents - elevation and so forth
Uniformitarianism
Daylight saving time zones
Latitude
Seasons
44. An area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions associated with the plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean - In a 40000 km horseshoe shape - associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches - volcanic arcs - and volcanic
Pacific Ring of Fire
Ice Age
Mantle
Surface ocean temperature
45. Forms south of the Arctic and is cold
Mid - oceanic ridge
groundwater discharge
Polar air
Semidiurnal or diurnal
46. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Solar eclipse
Maritime air
Troposhere
Nuclear fusion
47. Formed by sodium chloride
Rock salt
Cleavage
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Sedimentary rocks
48. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
Stars
Distance
Continental drift
The earth's structure
49. 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
Strata
Solar eclipse
Time zone
Lithosphere
50. 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
Orogenic zones
Smaller regions of the oceans
Block mountains or fold mountains
precipitation
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