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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface - Examples obsidian - basalt - and pumice
Extrusive
Cumulonibus clouds
Snow packs
Lithosphere
2. Maritime tropical (wet - warm air)
Equinoxes
Latitude
aquifers
- mT
3. A land form that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area - with a peak - Usually produced by the movement of lithospheric plates
Earth's crust
Mountain
Condensation
Surface temperature
4. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels
Air mass
lower elevation
Mid - oceanic ridge
Rock salt
5. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Strata
Coral reef
Ice Age
Clastic
6. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Cirrus clouds
Parallax
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
10000
7. The degrees north or south of the equator
El Nino
lower
Nuclear fusion
Latitude
8. 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
Mantle
- mT
Daylight saving time zones
Lunar eclipse
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
50-100
Mountain
- cT
California coast
10. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
cooling
Gravity and inertia
Snow packs
Altostratus clouds
11. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle
moisture
- cT
29.5
Distance
12. Darkens the moon as the earth passes between it and the sun - casting a shadow on the moon - may be seen from anywhere the moon is visible - about half of the earth
Maritime air
Lunar eclipse
Earth
Colder
13. Officially defined as sustained sea surface temperature anomalies of magnitude greater than 0.5
Venus
Planets
Extrusive
El Nino and La Nina
14. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Erosion and land use
- cP
Moon
Convergent tectonic plates
15. Distance to closest stars can be calculated by measuring the _________ - a slight shift in apparent position against the background of more distant stars as the earth travels around the sun
15
Volcano
Parallax
Subsurface flow
16. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault
Transpiration
Transform plate movements
Block mountains or fold mountains
Convergent tectonic plates
17. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the Solar System - especially on...
Altostratus clouds
Rocky planets and moons
Convergent tectonic plates
- mT
18. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Tropical air
Stratus clouds
The Gulf - Stream
Lithosphere
19. Most sediments were deposited in beds that were originally horizontal - and any tilting is due to later earth movements
Law of original horizontality
Eclipses
Andromeda galaxy
Stars
20. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
Orogenic zones
Semidiurnal
Mantle plumes
Sublimation
21. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
Cleavage
larger planet
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Stratus clouds
22. The runoff produced by melting snow
Snowmelt
Snow packs
Tidal range
cooling
23. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
larger planet
Smaller regions of the oceans
Sun
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
24. Younger beds were originally deposited above older beds
Galactic center
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Law of superposition
10000
25. Volcanoes are also found in __________ - where the denser oceanic plates are forced under continental plates; this adds massive volumes of water to the mantle - allowing magma to melt more readily and rise to the surface to form volcanoes
cooling
Subduction zones
percolation
Solar eclipse
26. 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
Smaller regions of the oceans
The equator
Moon
Earth
27. 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
Altostratus clouds
Sedimentary rocks
New moon
- cT
28. 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
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Sedimentation
Petroleum exploration
Geology
29. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
Snowmelt
Air mass
Igneous rocks
10000
30. Formed by sodium chloride
Erosion
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Lithosphere
Rock salt
31. Forms south of the Arctic and is cold
Soil
Geology
Rain shadow
Polar air
32. Nearest galaxy - about 20 million light - years away
Andromeda galaxy
Inertia
El Nino and La Nina
Surface ocean temperature
33. 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
Ways magma can form
Precipitation
moisture
Limestone
34. One tidal cycle per day
- cT
Deserts
Diurnal
Lunar eclipse
35. 4 terrestrials: Mercury - Venus - Mars - Earth 4 gas giants: Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune At least 5 dwarf planets: Ceres - Pluto - Makemake - Haumea - Eris
Andromeda galaxy
Diurnal
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Solar System
36. 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
Planets
Altostratus clouds
New moon
37. Bodies similar to the sun but immensely distant - Closest stars are 4 light - years away
Types of galaxies
cooling
Neap tide/neaps
Stars
38. Loose collections of ice - dust - and small rocky particles - measuring a few kilometers or tens of kilometers across
Comet nuclei
Continental air
Strata
Transform plate movements
39. This upslope wind is called a...
Subsurface flow
Valley breeze
Hydrologic concepts
29.5
40. 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
Mohs' scale of hardness
Weight and mass
Types of clouds
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
41. The precipitation that is intercepted by plant foliage and eventually evaporates back to the atmosphere rather than falling to the ground
Asteroids
Conglomerates
Canopy interception
Short - period comets
42. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
Types of galaxies
Mid - oceanic ridge
Minerals
Solar eclipse
43. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Distance
Sublimation
Short - period comets
Diurnal
44. 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
Erosion
Law of original horizontality
lower elevation
Examples to support Continental drift theory
45. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Semidiurnal
Scratch test
Estuary
freshwater springs
46. 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
Erosion
Subsurface flow
Subduction zones
Weather phenomena on earth
47. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
Small islands
Mid - oceanic ridge
Equinoxes
larger planet
48. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Maritime air
Sedimentation
Mineral color
49. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Precipitation
Opposite seasons
Meteorology
clouds
50. A natural flow of water - usually freshwater - traveling toward an ocean - a lake - or another stream
jet stream
Eclipses
River
Weight and mass