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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Tides may be...
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Parallax
Metamorphic rocks
Sun
2. 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
Planets
Convergent plate movements
Full moon
Surface ocean temperature
3. Runoff and groundwater are stored as ________ in lakes
11
Styles of rock deformation
Latitude
freshwater
4. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
Galaxies
Solar eclipse
percolation
Sun's gravity
5. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
clouds
Solar radiation
Parallax
Inertia
6. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Subsurface flow
Subduction zones
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Sublimation
7. Seasons are marked by changes in the amount of sunlight - which in turn often cause cycles of dormancy in plants and hibernation in animals - These effects vary with latitude and with proximity to bodies of water
Evaporation
Sedimentary rocks
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Block mountains or fold mountains
8. Rocks are placed into groups according to how they form...
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Galactic center
Weather phenomena on earth
Law of superposition
9. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
Earth
Daylight saving time zones
freshwater springs
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
10. One tidal cycle per day
Chaotic system
Convergent plate movements
Diurnal
Lunar eclipse
11. Common: wind - clouds - rain - snow - fog - dust storms - Less common: natural disasters such as tornadoes - hurricanes - and ice storms
Weather phenomena on earth
Petroleum exploration
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Semidiurnal or diurnal
12. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
Semidiurnal or diurnal
El Nino and La Nina
Major oceans
Tectonic plates
13. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Hydrologic cycle
15
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
3/4
14. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
aquifers
lower elevation
Strata
Surface temperature
15. 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
clouds
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Meteorology
Lunar eclipse
16. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
Tidal range
precipitation
The geological time scale
Igneous rocks
17. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Valley breeze
Hydrologic cycle
Cleavage
Subduction zones
18. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
Major oceans
- mT
New moon
Orogenic zones
19. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Geology
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Block mountains or fold mountains
Minerals
20. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Weight and mass
Erosion and land use
Cirrus clouds
Speed of light
21. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Photosphere
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Ice Age
Evaporation
22. The rising of the earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the moon and the sun acting on the oceans
Evapotranspiration
Troposhere
Tides
Surface ocean currents
23. Further caused by the elliptical orbit of the earth - Earth reaches perihelion (the point in its orbit closest to the sun) in January - and it reaches aphelion (farthest point from the sun) in July - Also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans
Deserts
Latitude
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Extrusive
24. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
Clastic
Estuary
- cT
Solar eclipse
25. Divided into two main types: large - low- density gas giants and smaller - rocky terrestrials - There are at least 341 identified _______ - 8 of which are in the Solar System
California coast
Planets
clouds
Neap tide/neaps
26. The atmosphere is a __________ - and so small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole - This makes it difficult to accurately predict weather more than a few days in advance
moisture
freshwater
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Chaotic system
27. Typically the tidal mouths of rivers and are often characterized by _____________ or silt carried in from terrestrial runoff - frequently from offshore
cooling
Sedimentation
Sedimentary rocks
Comet
28. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Erosion and land use
Galaxies
Extrusive
Limestone
29. Two feldspars (orthoclase and plagioclase) - quartz - olivine - and augite - These five minerals are silicates - built from interlocking silicon and oxygen atoms
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Smaller regions of the oceans
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Precipitation
30. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Weight and mass
Short - period comets
Andromeda galaxy
Valley breeze
31. Bodies similar to the sun but immensely distant - Closest stars are 4 light - years away
Axis tilt
New moon
The earth's structure
Stars
32. Temperature - pressure - and composition
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Axis tilt
Ways magma can form
Time zone
33. This upslope wind is called a...
Valley breeze
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Rainfall
34. 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
Transpiration
Subsurface flow
Mantle plumes
El Nino
35. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels
Latitude
Air mass
Galaxies
Standard time zones
36. The fossiliferous strata record is only the last __% of the earth's history
Plate tectonics
Weight and mass
Lunar eclipse
11
37. 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
Law of original horizontality
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Long - period comets
New moon
38. 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
Conglomerates
aquifers
The big bang theory of cosmology
46%
39. 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...
Runoff
Andromeda galaxy
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Major oceans
40. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Gravity and inertia
Daylight saving time zones
Semidiurnal
Coral reef
41. 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
Limestone
Why weather occurs
Mechanical/physical weathering
42. 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
Styles of rock deformation
Parallax
Valley breeze
lower
43. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
Rain shadow
Surface temperature differences
Convergent tectonic plates
3/4
44. The center of the sun may have a temperature of millions of degrees; the visible surface - the ______ - is about 6000
Why weather occurs
46%
Photosphere
10000
45. 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
Seasons
Weight and mass
California coast
Axis tilt
46. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
groundwater discharge
Moon
Rain shadow
Nuclear fusion
47. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the...
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48. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
El Nino
Solar radiation
Stars
Daylight saving time zones
49. 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
Semidiurnal
Sun's gravity
Fossils
50. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Snowmelt
Comet
Stars
Longitude