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1. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through atmospheric chemicals or biologically produced chemicals (also known as biological weathering)
Chemical weathering
groundwater discharge
Evapotranspiration
Cumulonibus clouds
2. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
- mP
Petroleum exploration
Galaxies
Opposite seasons
3. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Seasons
Conglomerates
Block mountains or fold mountains
Solar System
4. The variety of ways by which water moves across the land - This includes both surface runoff and channel runoff - As it flows - the water may percolate into the ground - evaporate into the air - become stored in lakes or reservoirs - or be extracted
Scratch test
Colder
Runoff
Distance
5. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
Minerals
The big bang theory of cosmology
10000
Ways magma can form
6. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
lower
Air mass
Parallax
7. Around a new or full moon - when the sun - moon - and the earth form a line - the tidal forces due to the sun reinforce those of the moon - The tide's range is at a maximum and is called a spring tide (spring as in 'to jump/leap -' not the season)
Spring tide
Weathering
lower elevation
Ice Age
8. The center of the sun may have a temperature of millions of degrees; the visible surface - the ______ - is about 6000
Rock salt
Runoff
Photosphere
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
9. Texture is important in classifying ______ sedimentary rocks
Smaller regions of the oceans
Clastic
Extrusive
Crust
10. The cold - water current that flows north to south off the _____________ keeps the West Coast fairly cool during the summer - Cold - water currents create cooler temperatures in areas that would otherwise be much warmer
California coast
Earth
Stars
Tides
11. Rocks are placed into groups according to how they form...
Full moon
Crust
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Continental air
12. 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
Rainfall
Types of clouds
Volcano
- mT
13. The runoff produced by melting snow
Snowmelt
Rocky planets and moons
Ways magma can form
Surface temperature
14. 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
Maritime air
Estuary
Opposite seasons
Inertia
15. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
Pacific Ring of Fire
Conglomerates
moisture
larger planet
16. 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)
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
5.6
groundwater discharge
Time zone
17. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Galactic center
Snow packs
World/global ocean
18. Cause pressure differences - A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands - lowering the air pressure and its density
Winter solstice
Condensation
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Surface temperature differences
19. On maps - the characteristics of an air mass are represented by two letters: The lowercase letter represents ________ - and the uppercase letter represents temperature
freshwater
Density
moisture
Lunar eclipse
20. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity
Mechanical/physical weathering
Long linear arcs
Surface ocean currents
Solar wind
21. 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
Weight and mass
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Density
cooling
22. Forms south of the Arctic and is cold
Polar air
El Nino and La Nina
Petroleum exploration
- mP
23. 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
percolation
Colder
Latitude
Lithosphere
24. Common: wind - clouds - rain - snow - fog - dust storms - Less common: natural disasters such as tornadoes - hurricanes - and ice storms
Weather phenomena on earth
Intrusive
Solar System
percolation
25. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
Mid - oceanic ridge
Snow packs
New moon
The earth's structure
26. 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
Metamorphic rocks
Meteorology
Transform plate movements
Differential heating
27. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Pacific Ring of Fire
Andromeda galaxy
Weight and mass
- mT
28. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through direct contact with atmospheric conditions such as heat - water - ice - and pressure
Spring tide
Mechanical/physical weathering
Solar System
Opposite seasons
29. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Semidiurnal
Tidal range
Distance
moisture
30. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
Convergent tectonic plates
Troposhere
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
lower elevation
31. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
Maritime air
Comet
Short - period comets
Mantle plumes
32. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Transform plate movements
Lunar eclipse
Ice Age
Sun's gravity
33. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Major oceans
Nuclear fusion
Sedimentation
Gravity and inertia
34. The fossiliferous strata record is only the last __% of the earth's history
Plate tectonics
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
clouds
11
35. Comprises one global - interconnected body of salt water often (though generally recognized as several separate oceans) - A continuous body of water with relatively free interchange among its parts
Chaotic system
World/global ocean
Tides
Major oceans
36. Solar Atmosphere is divided into the inner chromosphere with explosive prominences and the outer corona - a glowing halo visible only during a total eclipse - Constantly emitting particles as a...
Rainfall
Types of clouds
Seasons
Solar wind
37. Distance to closest stars can be calculated by measuring the _________ - a slight shift in apparent position against the background of more distant stars as the earth travels around the sun
Planets
Parallax
Surface temperature differences
Lithosphere
38. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Cleavage
Altostratus clouds
Sun's gravity
Orogenic zones
39. A semi - closed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it - and with a free connection to the open sea - Often associated with high levels of biological diversity - They are made up of brackish water - Often given names
- cP
Soil
Estuary
Limestone
40. How much matter is in the object
Solar radiation
Stars
Density
- mT
41. 186000 miles/second
Evapotranspiration
Sunspots
Pacific Ring of Fire
Speed of light
42. Zero degrees latitude - generally has a tropical climate (warm and wet); at the extreme northern and southern latitudes (polar regions) - the climate is very cold and dry
Volcano
Intrusive
Chemical sedimentary rocks
The equator
43. 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
Rain shadow
Surface temperature differences
46%
The big bang theory of cosmology
44. Igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface - Examples obsidian - basalt - and pumice
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Extrusive
Evapotranspiration
Evaporation
45. Smooth layers of low clouds that indicate a chance of drizzle or snow
Stratus clouds
Crust
aquifers
Maritime air
46. Occur when two plates push together - Such faults are strong and relatively deep - Where the strongest earthquakes occur Example: mountain building in the Himalayas and the Andes
moisture
Standard time zones
Convergent plate movements
Eclipses
47. 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...
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Smaller regions of the oceans
Meteorology
Tidal range
48. A small Solar System body that orbits the Sun - When close enough to the sun - exhibits a visible coma (atmosphere) or a tail - both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus - Have a variety of different orbital periods
Mineral color
Neap tide/neaps
El Nino and La Nina
Comet
49. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Galactic center
Maritime air
Semidiurnal
Rain shadow
50. The result of the buildup of once - living things
Transpiration
Major oceans
Coral reef
Surface ocean temperature
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