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CSET Earth
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1. Most sediments were deposited in beds that were originally horizontal - and any tilting is due to later earth movements
Daylight saving time zones
Smaller regions of the oceans
Law of original horizontality
- cT
2. The science of the atmosphere and weather
cooling
Weight and mass
Speed of light
Meteorology
3. 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
Canopy interception
3/4
Limestone
The equator
4. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
Continental drift
11
Canopy interception
Diurnal
5. 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
Evaporation
Divergent plate movements
Equinoxes
Crust
6. 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
Geology
Subsurface flow
Venus
Stars
7. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Lunar eclipse
Daylight saving time zones
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
8. Form when magma or lava cools and solidifies - Depending on the rate of cooling - can contain visible crystals - while others can appear glassy
Eclipses
Long - period comets
Tectonic plates
Igneous rocks
9. 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
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Gravity and inertia
California coast
Igneous rocks
10. A ______________ - such as the Mid - Atlantic Ridge - has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart
Gravity and inertia
Diurnal
Mid - oceanic ridge
Weight and mass
11. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels
Mineral color
Convergent tectonic plates
Planets
Air mass
12. 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
Uniformitarianism
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Asteroids
13. 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
Earth's crust
Parallax
Comet
Long linear arcs
14. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle
29.5
Rock salt
Spring tide
Rainfall
15. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
Examples to support Continental drift theory
11
- mP
Estuary
16. 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
Igneous rocks
Solar eclipse
Intrusive
El Nino and La Nina
17. Refers to the long - term weather patterns of a large geographical area and takes into account temperature - humidity - and precipitation
Speed of light
11
Rock salt
Climate
18. 186000 miles/second
Fossils
Speed of light
Volcano
Geology
19. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
- cT
clouds
Ice Age
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
20. Somewhat cooler disturbances in the photosphere
Colder
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Sunspots
The Gulf - Stream
21. Cause pressure differences - A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands - lowering the air pressure and its density
Surface ocean temperature
Coral reef
Surface temperature differences
Weight and mass
22. Ancient astronomers found that eclipses occurred periodically and learned to predict them accurately - Lunar and solar
Mountain
Troposhere
Snowmelt
Eclipses
23. Sometimes called minor planets or planetoids - Bodies
Orogenic zones
Asteroids
Surface ocean currents
- mT
24. 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)
groundwater discharge
Sun
Convergent plate movements
Spring tide
25. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity
Canopy interception
Long linear arcs
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
5.6
26. Officially defined as sustained sea surface temperature anomalies of magnitude greater than 0.5
Comet
El Nino and La Nina
Sunspots
Law of superposition
27. Rocks are placed into groups according to how they form...
Daylight saving time zones
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Intrusive
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
28. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Geology
Precipitation
Scratch test
The big bang theory of cosmology
29. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Longitude
freshwater springs
Sedimentary rocks
Sedimentation
30. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Semidiurnal
Clastic
The geological time scale
31. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
Evaporation
Density
Groundwater
Tectonic plates
32. Can influence climate by sending tremendous volumes of dust - ash - and smoke into the atmosphere
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
lower elevation
Clastic
Climate
33. 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
freshwater springs
Mantle
Earth
clouds
34. Composed of the fragments of other types of rocks - Cover 75 to 80% of the earth's land area - Often deposited in distinct parallel layers - Weather and erosion break down other rock types into sediments - Over time - the sediments become cemented an
Longitude
- mT
Sedimentary rocks
Comet nuclei
35. How much matter is in the object
Full moon
Mantle plumes
Density
Block mountains or fold mountains
36. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Block mountains or fold mountains
Mountain
Tectonic plates
Weathering
37. 1 hour of time
15
Distance
Semidiurnal or diurnal
percolation
38. 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
Condensation
Continental air
Asteroids
Estuary
39. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes ________ - which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
percolation
lower
aquifers
40. A natural flow of water - usually freshwater - traveling toward an ocean - a lake - or another stream
Speed of light
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
California coast
River
41. Continental polar (dry - cold air)
Sun's gravity
Continental drift
- cP
Venus
42. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault
Transform plate movements
Winter solstice
Ice Age
Cleavage
43. Loose collections of ice - dust - and small rocky particles - measuring a few kilometers or tens of kilometers across
Comet nuclei
Subduction zones
The big bang theory of cosmology
The Gulf - Stream
44. Large - dark clouds that indicate thunderstorms
Sun's gravity
Cumulonibus clouds
Cleavage
Density
45. Faulting and folding
Styles of rock deformation
Photosphere
Scratch test
New moon
46. A land form that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area - with a peak - Usually produced by the movement of lithospheric plates
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
- mP
World/global ocean
Mountain
47. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
Distance
15
Coral reef
Transpiration
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49. 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
Photosphere
Mechanical/physical weathering
lower
50. Precipitation - Canopy interception - Snowmelt - Runoff - Percolation - Subsurface flow- Evaporation - Sublimation - Condensation
Earth's crust
Hydrologic concepts
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