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CSET Earth
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1. On maps - the characteristics of an air mass are represented by two letters: The lowercase letter represents ________ - and the uppercase letter represents temperature
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
moisture
Solar wind
Intrusive
2. Form when magma or lava cools and solidifies - Depending on the rate of cooling - can contain visible crystals - while others can appear glassy
Divergent plate movements
Igneous rocks
Stars
Canopy interception
3. 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
Ice Age
percolation
Plate tectonics
The geological time scale
4. Temperature - pressure - and composition
5.6
Ways magma can form
Small islands
Weather phenomena on earth
5. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
Mohs' scale of hardness
Galaxies
clouds
Types of clouds
6. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Polar air
Law of original horizontality
Tidal range
Galactic center
7. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
Cirrus clouds
Chaotic system
Transpiration
Small islands
8. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Cleavage
Mechanical/physical weathering
Ice Age
Scratch test
9. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
The equator
Distance
Types of clouds
Orogenic zones
10. Occur when two plates pull away from each other - Such faults are generally weak and shallow Example: the Mid - Atlantic Range in the Atlantic Ocean
Divergent plate movements
Solar radiation
Continental air
Convergent tectonic plates
11. Travels in an orbit that is slightly elliptical (oval) - and so the distance from the sun ranges from 91.5 to 94.5 million miles - Its daily rotation deforms the earth to a flattened spheroid - with a polar radius slightly less than the equatorial ra
- mT
Earth's crust
Earth
Weathering
12. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Nuclear fusion
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Short - period comets
13. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
Convergent tectonic plates
Solar radiation
Petroleum exploration
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
14. Not all runoff flows into rivers; much of it infiltrates into the ground through...
percolation
Weathering
Time zone
Cirrus clouds
15. 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
Petroleum exploration
Snow packs
Short - period comets
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
16. Cirrus - Stratus - Cumulonimbus - Altostratus
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Snowmelt
Moon
Types of clouds
17. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Weight and mass
Continental drift
Mid - oceanic ridge
World/global ocean
18. Precipitation - Canopy interception - Snowmelt - Runoff - Percolation - Subsurface flow- Evaporation - Sublimation - Condensation
Hydrologic concepts
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Weight and mass
larger planet
19. Some precipitation falls as ____ and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers - which can store water for thousands of years
Chaotic system
snow
Deserts
Full moon
20. Nearest galaxy - about 20 million light - years away
Andromeda galaxy
El Nino
World/global ocean
Uniformitarianism
21. Form when dissolved mineral solutions crystalize out of lakes and oceans
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Uniformitarianism
Longitude
10000
22. 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
29.5
Rainfall
Erosion
Daylight saving time zones
23. Classified as warm - water or cold - water currents
Surface ocean currents
Strata
Valley breeze
Limestone
24. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
Chemical weathering
The rock cycle
Extrusive
The geological time scale
25. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
Parallax
Intrusive
Moon
Sublimation
26. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
15
50-100
snow
Percolation
27. A major determiner of coastal climate
Surface ocean temperature
Weathering
Hydrologic cycle
3/4
28. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Groundwater
Extrusive
Geology
freshwater
29. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
Condensation
World/global ocean
Rainfall
Equinoxes
30. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Moon
11
Sublimation
Rocky planets and moons
31. Sedimentary rocks containing large fragments of other rock material - e.g. Sandstone
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Conglomerates
Lunar eclipse
46%
32. Can influence climate by sending tremendous volumes of dust - ash - and smoke into the atmosphere
Solar eclipse
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
lower elevation
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
33. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Erosion and land use
Longitude
El Nino and La Nina
aquifers
34. One tidal cycle per day
Air mass
Valley breeze
Diurnal
Tides
35. 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)
La Nina
Types of galaxies
Semidiurnal
Time zone
36. 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
Mechanical/physical weathering
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Intrusive
37. The result of the buildup of once - living things
Asteroids
Coral reef
The geological time scale
Surface ocean temperature
38. 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
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
10000
Plate tectonics
cooling
39. Mountains blocking the path of precipitation to the desert
Rain shadow
Comet nuclei
Estuary
Solar System
40. Almost all familiar weather phenomena occur in the __________ (the lower part of the atmosphere)
Latitude
Evapotranspiration
Troposhere
California coast
41. 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
29.5
Weight and mass
Venus
Block mountains or fold mountains
42. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
Density
Mineral color
Eclipses
Why weather occurs
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44. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
larger planet
Volcano
- mP
Rainfall
45. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Evaporation
Metamorphic rocks
Stratus clouds
Erosion and land use
46. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Precipitation
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Diurnal
Block mountains or fold mountains
47. 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
Comet
Chemical weathering
Extrusive
Differential heating
48. A warm - water current that carries warm water from the Tropics to the Arctic regions of the North Atlantic Ocean - This accounts for higher temperatures and higher humidity on the Eastern Seaboard during the summer
The Gulf - Stream
Orogenic zones
freshwater
Latitude
49. Forms south of the Arctic and is cold
Neap tide/neaps
Polar air
Comet nuclei
Latitude
50. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
Transpiration
Types of galaxies
Seasons
Condensation