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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
Petroleum exploration
Rainfall
Earth
Long - period comets
2. Cause pressure differences - A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands - lowering the air pressure and its density
Semidiurnal
Subsurface flow
Surface temperature differences
freshwater
3. Characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific - warm current of nutrient - poor tropical water - heated by its eastward passage in the Equatorial Current - replaces the cold - nutrient - rich surface water of th
World/global ocean
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
El Nino
Meteorology
4. 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)
Deserts
Plate tectonics
Igneous rocks
El Nino
5. 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
Minerals
Precipitation
Convergent tectonic plates
29.5
6. 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
50-100
cooling
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Differential heating
7. Almost all familiar weather phenomena occur in the __________ (the lower part of the atmosphere)
freshwater
precipitation
Small islands
Troposhere
8. Occurs at the instant when the sun's position in the sky is at its greatest angular distance on the other side of the equatorial plane from the observer's hemisphere - Depending on the shift of the calendar - the winter solstice occurs some time betw
Evapotranspiration
River
Winter solstice
Scratch test
9. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
Chemical weathering
River
Smaller regions of the oceans
Igneous rocks
10. The science of the atmosphere and weather
Clastic
Meteorology
Sun's gravity
Subduction zones
11. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Ice Age
Percolation
Time zone
Differential heating
12. Sedimentary rocks containing large fragments of other rock material - e.g. Sandstone
Snowmelt
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Conglomerates
Lithosphere
13. 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
Examples to support Continental drift theory
cooling
Stratus clouds
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
14. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Sublimation
Soil
10000
Hydrologic concepts
15. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Evaporation
Divergent plate movements
Solar radiation
16. 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
Erosion and land use
Law of superposition
Lunar eclipse
Planets
17. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
Canopy interception
Comet
freshwater
50-100
18. A ______________ - such as the Mid - Atlantic Ridge - has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart
Mid - oceanic ridge
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Extrusive
Rainfall
19. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Gravity and inertia
Inertia
Valley breeze
cooling
20. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
Soil
Diurnal
Tectonic plates
Longitude
21. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the ________
Rain shadow
Galactic center
snow
jet stream
22. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Nuclear fusion
Divergent plate movements
Mohs' scale of hardness
percolation
23. Common: wind - clouds - rain - snow - fog - dust storms - Less common: natural disasters such as tornadoes - hurricanes - and ice storms
Weather phenomena on earth
Axis tilt
Weight and mass
groundwater discharge
24. Occur twice a year - when the tilt of the earth's axis is oriented neither from nor to the sun - causing the sun to be located vertically above a point on the equator - The name derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night) - because at the e
Equinoxes
Maritime air
Winter solstice
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
25. 4 terrestrials: Mercury - Venus - Mars - Earth 4 gas giants: Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune At least 5 dwarf planets: Ceres - Pluto - Makemake - Haumea - Eris
Solar System
Sedimentary rocks
Coral reef
29.5
26. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Lunar eclipse
El Nino
aquifers
Cleavage
27. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault
Mid - oceanic ridge
Transform plate movements
Transpiration
Seasons
28. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
Semidiurnal
Styles of rock deformation
Distance
Clastic
29. Mountains blocking the path of precipitation to the desert
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Valley breeze
15
Rain shadow
30. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Earth
aquifers
Weathering
Semidiurnal
31. The tidal force produced by the sun is ____ as large as that produced by the moon
10000
Why weather occurs
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
46%
32. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
Limestone
Hydrologic cycle
Cleavage
Tidal range
33. Takes approx. seven and a half earth months to revolve around the sun - Takes approx. eight earth months to rotate on its axis - a day on ________ is longer than a year
Equinoxes
Venus
freshwater springs
Minerals
34. Less than 1% of the earth; this relatively thin zone (5 to 25 miles) contains the only rocks we can study - even in the deepest mines or drill holes
World/global ocean
Distance
Long linear arcs
Crust
35. Faulting and folding
Solar wind
Lithosphere
Styles of rock deformation
Altostratus clouds
36. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Transpiration
Tidal range
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
37. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
46%
Sun's gravity
Convergent tectonic plates
Daylight saving time zones
38. Travels around the earth each month - - Distance from the earth averages 237000 miles - Has rugged topography formed billions of years ago by volcanic eruptions and meteorite impacts - Mass is 1/6th that of Earth
Cumulonibus clouds
Moon
Lunar eclipse
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
39. 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
Clastic
29.5
lower
Asteroids
40. 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
Long - period comets
Mountain
Clastic
Earth's crust
41. 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
larger planet
Weather phenomena on earth
Erosion
Polar air
42. The fossiliferous strata record is only the last __% of the earth's history
Weathering
Parallax
Fossils
11
43. Temperature - pressure - and composition
Tides
Ways magma can form
Lunar eclipse
Styles of rock deformation
44. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
3/4
Seasons
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
precipitation
45. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Subduction zones
Surface temperature differences
Standard time zones
Daylight saving time zones
46. 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
The geological time scale
Full moon
Long - period comets
Igneous rocks
47. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
10000
Law of superposition
Surface temperature
48. 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
Clastic
Cirrus clouds
Full moon
Minerals
49. 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
Surface temperature
Igneous rocks
Petroleum exploration
Comet
50. 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)
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Spring tide
Extrusive
Conglomerates