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1. Natural chemical compounds that are the crystals that make up rocks - Each has a specific composition or narrow range of composition
Minerals
Block mountains or fold mountains
Mineral color
Coral reef
2. 1 hour of time
15
Precipitation
Law of superposition
Igneous rocks
3. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
The equator
Minerals
Solar radiation
Asteroids
4. Most sediments were deposited in beds that were originally horizontal - and any tilting is due to later earth movements
The rock cycle
Law of original horizontality
Groundwater
Gravity and inertia
5. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Speed of light
Erosion and land use
Density
Time zone
6. The science of the atmosphere and weather
Long - period comets
Cleavage
clouds
Meteorology
7. 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
Time zone
Long - period comets
Parallax
Solar System
8. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
Surface ocean temperature
- mP
Cirrus clouds
Rain shadow
9. 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
Galactic center
Surface temperature differences
Ice Age
10. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Colder
Convergent tectonic plates
Semidiurnal
La Nina
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
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Semidiurnal
Hydrologic cycle
Axis tilt
12. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Percolation
moisture
The Gulf - Stream
Nuclear fusion
13. Generally forms deep in the mantle as one type of rock changes into another - Due to intense pressure - can show signs of bending and distortion - Examples: schist - marble - gneiss - and slate
River
Snowmelt
Metamorphic rocks
Erosion and land use
14. 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
Weather phenomena on earth
Strata
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Planets
15. 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
California coast
Hydrologic concepts
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
16. The runoff produced by melting snow
clouds
Time zone
Snowmelt
15
17. 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
Evaporation
Estuary
Block mountains or fold mountains
Planets
18. The tidal force produced by the sun is ____ as large as that produced by the moon
46%
The geological time scale
Daylight saving time zones
Sun
19. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Surface ocean currents
3/4
Long linear arcs
Hydrologic cycle
20. Characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the same area - Atlanta tropical cyclone activity is generally enhanced during La Nina - Often follows the El Nino - especially when the latter is strong
Solar radiation
La Nina
Comet nuclei
Mineral color
21. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Galactic center
Speed of light
Convergent tectonic plates
Geology
22. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
Daylight saving time zones
Block mountains or fold mountains
Continental drift
Law of superposition
23. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
Planets
Mantle plumes
Intrusive
46%
24. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
Altostratus clouds
Soil
50-100
El Nino and La Nina
25. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Weight and mass
Orogenic zones
Valley breeze
aquifers
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
Orogenic zones
Differential heating
World/global ocean
Sedimentary rocks
27. 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
Solar eclipse
Gravity and inertia
aquifers
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
28. 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
Small islands
Sedimentary rocks
15
29. 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
groundwater discharge
Full moon
Planets
Rainfall
30. Precipitation - Canopy interception - Snowmelt - Runoff - Percolation - Subsurface flow- Evaporation - Sublimation - Condensation
Continental air
Hydrologic concepts
Galaxies
Winter solstice
31. 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)
Geology
Groundwater
Plate tectonics
Nuclear fusion
32. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Colder
Law of original horizontality
Soil
Galactic center
33. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Transpiration
Sunspots
World/global ocean
The rock cycle
34. Take up about 1/3 of the earth's land surface - many are formed by rain shadows - Usually have a large diurnal (day) and seasonal temperature range - with high daytime temperatures
Deserts
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
La Nina
Speed of light
35. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Divergent plate movements
aquifers
Strata
Groundwater
36. Loose collections of ice - dust - and small rocky particles - measuring a few kilometers or tens of kilometers across
Comet nuclei
Solar System
Time zone
Solar eclipse
37. 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
Precipitation
Tectonic plates
Erosion and land use
Tides
38. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
Sedimentation
Daylight saving time zones
Condensation
Semidiurnal or diurnal
39. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
- mT
Precipitation
lower elevation
Asteroids
40. The sun and oceans can also affect the weather of land - If the sun heats ocean waters for a period of time - water can evaporate - Once evaporated into the air - the moisture can spread over nearby land - thus making it cooler
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41. 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
Sublimation
Subduction zones
Mid - oceanic ridge
Examples to support Continental drift theory
42. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through direct contact with atmospheric conditions such as heat - water - ice - and pressure
Coral reef
Differential heating
Mechanical/physical weathering
Chaotic system
43. Form when magma or lava cools and solidifies - Depending on the rate of cooling - can contain visible crystals - while others can appear glassy
- mT
Extrusive
Igneous rocks
Conglomerates
44. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
Climate
10000
Law of original horizontality
Nuclear fusion
45. Continental polar (dry - cold air)
Subduction zones
Types of clouds
- cP
Inertia
46. 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
Runoff
Polar air
Mechanical/physical weathering
Equinoxes
47. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Tropical air
Pacific Ring of Fire
Igneous rocks
Rainfall
48. - The materials left over after the rock breaks down combine with organic material - The mineral content is determined by the parent material; thus - a soil derived from a single rock type can often be deficient in one or more minerals for good ferti
Convergent tectonic plates
Soil
Eclipses
- cP
49. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
Transpiration
Evaporation
Small islands
- cT
50. 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
Subsurface flow
Law of original horizontality
Snow packs
Chaotic system
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