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CSET Earth
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Smooth layers of low clouds that indicate a chance of drizzle or snow
Mohs' scale of hardness
Snow packs
Stratus clouds
Seasons
2. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
Long linear arcs
Snow packs
Spring tide
Ways magma can form
3. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Tides
larger planet
Short - period comets
4. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
- mP
freshwater
snow
10000
5. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the ________
jet stream
Tropical air
Limestone
Hydrologic cycle
6. 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
Latitude
Coral reef
Sunspots
Volcano
7. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
clouds
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Solar radiation
Strata
8. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels
Short - period comets
Full moon
Solar eclipse
Air mass
9. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity
Types of galaxies
Chemical weathering
Long linear arcs
Strata
10. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Mantle
Photosphere
Gravity and inertia
Nuclear fusion
11. 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
Cumulonibus clouds
Full moon
Uniformitarianism
Deserts
12. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Block mountains or fold mountains
Estuary
Comet
Standard time zones
13. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Short - period comets
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Meteorology
5.6
14. Common: wind - clouds - rain - snow - fog - dust storms - Less common: natural disasters such as tornadoes - hurricanes - and ice storms
Canopy interception
Weather phenomena on earth
Runoff
Sun
15. Largest zone of the planet (68%); crystalline silicates - rich in magnesium - calcium - and iron; very hot and mainly solid - but local melting to magma is the source of volcanic eruptions
lower
Snow packs
Mantle
Crust
16. An area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions associated with the plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean - In a 40000 km horseshoe shape - associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches - volcanic arcs - and volcanic
World/global ocean
Mantle
Pacific Ring of Fire
Daylight saving time zones
17. 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
The equator
Rain shadow
Clastic
Latitude
18. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Conglomerates
3/4
Chaotic system
Groundwater
19. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
Air mass
El Nino
Axis tilt
Galaxies
20. 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)
Semidiurnal
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Time zone
Mountain
21. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Smaller regions of the oceans
Types of galaxies
Erosion and land use
Daylight saving time zones
22. How much matter is in the object
Sedimentation
Density
Colder
Fossils
23. Younger beds were originally deposited above older beds
cooling
Law of superposition
Surface temperature
Axis tilt
24. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Neap tide/neaps
Lunar eclipse
3/4
Air mass
25. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Fossils
Surface ocean temperature
Clastic
Nuclear fusion
26. 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
lower
clouds
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Equinoxes
27. This upslope wind is called a...
Valley breeze
Full moon
Longitude
cooling
28. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Transform plate movements
Extrusive
Continental air
29. A major determiner of coastal climate
Diurnal
Surface ocean temperature
3/4
Stratus clouds
30. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
Surface temperature
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Altostratus clouds
Weathering
31. 186000 miles/second
Asteroids
Differential heating
Speed of light
Orogenic zones
32. 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
Divergent plate movements
Latitude
The Gulf - Stream
33. One tidal cycle per day
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
The rock cycle
Snow packs
Diurnal
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
Distance
Subsurface flow
The equator
Mountain
35. Test the item against materials of known hardness; for example - use your fingernail or the graphite in a pencil to attempt to scratch the items. This process should result in assigning a relative hardness to the unknown items.
Latitude
Scratch test
New moon
Venus
36. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
Subsurface flow
Estuary
Orogenic zones
Semidiurnal or diurnal
37. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
Law of superposition
World/global ocean
Parallax
Percolation
38. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Hydrologic concepts
Longitude
Solar wind
Sun's gravity
39. Faulting and folding
Coral reef
Styles of rock deformation
Continental air
Extrusive
40. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Cirrus clouds
precipitation
- mT
Axis tilt
41. The result of the buildup of once - living things
Minerals
lower
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Coral reef
42. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Types of galaxies
Mineral color
43. Two feldspars (orthoclase and plagioclase) - quartz - olivine - and augite - These five minerals are silicates - built from interlocking silicon and oxygen atoms
Convergent tectonic plates
Rock salt
Sunspots
The most abundant minerals in the crust
44. The tidal force produced by the sun is ____ as large as that produced by the moon
46%
Cleavage
Tropical air
aquifers
45. Formed by sodium chloride
Rock salt
Rain shadow
Andromeda galaxy
Transform plate movements
46. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Runoff
Opposite seasons
Ways magma can form
Nuclear fusion
47. Forms over land and is associated with dry air
Surface temperature differences
Mechanical/physical weathering
Continental air
50-100
48. 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
Moon
- cP
World/global ocean
Diurnal
49. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
Surface temperature differences
Continental drift
California coast
jet stream
50. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Short - period comets
Convergent tectonic plates
Crustal rocks
Evaporation