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CSET Earth
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1. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
Comet nuclei
Valley breeze
Sedimentary rocks
larger planet
2. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Opposite seasons
Subsurface flow
Seasons
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
3. 1 hour of time
Tidal range
Semidiurnal or diurnal
The distinction between asteroids and comets
15
4. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Weather phenomena on earth
Soil
Tropical air
Standard time zones
5. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Mid - oceanic ridge
Rock salt
Sublimation
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
6. Giant masses of solid rock that float upon the earth's mantle - These plates move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries...
Standard time zones
larger planet
Solar System
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
7. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
freshwater
Equinoxes
Longitude
8. 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
Asteroids
Opposite seasons
California coast
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
9. 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)
freshwater
Time zone
Density
Solar wind
10. Seasons are marked by changes in the amount of sunlight - which in turn often cause cycles of dormancy in plants and hibernation in animals - These effects vary with latitude and with proximity to bodies of water
Speed of light
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
50-100
The geological time scale
11. Not all runoff flows into rivers; much of it infiltrates into the ground through...
percolation
Deserts
Tropical air
Diurnal
12. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Precipitation
Groundwater
Equinoxes
Galactic center
13. The best determiner of climate - as it is consistently and directly correlated with temperature - other factors: Rain shadows - as well as water currents - elevation and so forth
Climate
Solar wind
Latitude
Styles of rock deformation
14. Younger beds were originally deposited above older beds
Fossils
Sedimentary rocks
Crustal rocks
Law of superposition
15. The variety of ways by which water moves across the land - This includes both surface runoff and channel runoff - As it flows - the water may percolate into the ground - evaporate into the air - become stored in lakes or reservoirs - or be extracted
Maritime air
Runoff
Parallax
Longitude
16. Can influence climate by sending tremendous volumes of dust - ash - and smoke into the atmosphere
Rocky planets and moons
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Photosphere
29.5
17. 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
El Nino
Differential heating
Minerals
Sedimentation
18. The fossiliferous strata record is only the last __% of the earth's history
Sedimentary rocks
Precipitation
11
River
19. 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
Altostratus clouds
Continental air
Andromeda galaxy
Why weather occurs
20. 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
Winter solstice
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Mantle
21. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
- mP
Long linear arcs
Snow packs
Earth
22. 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
Mineral color
Tides
Mantle
Styles of rock deformation
23. Occur along plate boundaries
Colder
Galactic center
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
50-100
24. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
Why weather occurs
freshwater springs
Deserts
Coral reef
25. 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
aquifers
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Intrusive
Precipitation
26. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Crust
Ice Age
Earth's crust
Fossils
27. Form when magma or lava cools and solidifies - Depending on the rate of cooling - can contain visible crystals - while others can appear glassy
50-100
Igneous rocks
Rock salt
Mechanical/physical weathering
28. When the moon is at first quarter or third quarter - the sun - earth and moon form a 90- degree (right) angle with the earth at the vertex - The combined effect of this alignment of the sun - earth - and moon results in tidal ranges on the earth - Wh
Major oceans
Plate tectonics
Neap tide/neaps
Daylight saving time zones
29. 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
29.5
Spring tide
Troposhere
30. 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
Longitude
Axis tilt
Tidal range
31. 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
Soil
50-100
Petroleum exploration
The geological time scale
32. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
3/4
Rocky planets and moons
Solar radiation
Solar System
33. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
Why weather occurs
Evaporation
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Mantle
34. Temperature - pressure - and composition
Major oceans
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Ways magma can form
Continental air
35. Occurs when the moon sets at sunset - Then the moon is between the earth and the sun - so we see only the dark half of the moon
Petroleum exploration
New moon
50-100
Comet nuclei
36. Formed from calcium carbonate - also an example of chemical sedimentary rocks - like roock salt - can contain organic or once - living matter and can record the history of that matter's formation in features such as strata - fossil evidence - and rip
Ice Age
Clastic
Limestone
Transform plate movements
37. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Longitude
Polar air
Chemical weathering
Speed of light
38. 4 terrestrials: Mercury - Venus - Mars - Earth 4 gas giants: Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune At least 5 dwarf planets: Ceres - Pluto - Makemake - Haumea - Eris
cooling
Subsurface flow
Solar System
50-100
39. This scale assigns a fixed number to 10 reference materials. Talc (1) is the softest and diamond (10) is the hardest
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40. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Geology
Scratch test
Block mountains or fold mountains
Strata
41. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
- cT
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Opposite seasons
Comet
42. The atmosphere is a __________ - and so small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole - This makes it difficult to accurately predict weather more than a few days in advance
River
Latitude
Stratus clouds
Chaotic system
43. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
Standard time zones
Altostratus clouds
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
The rock cycle
44. 186000 miles/second
Long - period comets
Speed of light
Geology
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
45. 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
Rock salt
Long - period comets
Deserts
Canopy interception
46. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
clouds
Condensation
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Speed of light
47. How much matter is in the object
jet stream
Long - period comets
15
Density
48. This upslope wind is called a...
Deserts
Hydrologic concepts
Longitude
Valley breeze
49. A major determiner of coastal climate
Minerals
Stratus clouds
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Surface ocean temperature
50. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through direct contact with atmospheric conditions such as heat - water - ice - and pressure
percolation
Mechanical/physical weathering
The rock cycle
Inertia