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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The sun and oceans can also affect the weather of land - If the sun heats ocean waters for a period of time - water can evaporate - Once evaporated into the air - the moisture can spread over nearby land - thus making it cooler
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2. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
The geological time scale
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
- mP
3. Ancient astronomers found that eclipses occurred periodically and learned to predict them accurately - Lunar and solar
Equinoxes
El Nino
Eclipses
Hydrologic concepts
4. Due to a combination of differential heating and geometry - hen the sun rises - it is the tops of the mountain peaks which receive first light - and as the day progresses - the mountain slopes take on a greater heat load than the valleys - This resul
Rock salt
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Orogenic zones
Mineral color
5. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the ________
Daylight saving time zones
jet stream
Lunar eclipse
Standard time zones
6. The runoff produced by melting snow
World/global ocean
Snowmelt
Lunar eclipse
River
7. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
El Nino and La Nina
- mT
Condensation
Latitude
8. The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean - and thus its temperature extremes are buffered by the water - The result is that the South Pole is consistently _______ during the southern winter than the North Pole during the northern winter
Venus
Surface temperature differences
Precipitation
Colder
9. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
Tectonic plates
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Conglomerates
El Nino
10. 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
La Nina
Volcano
Evapotranspiration
Types of galaxies
11. Comprised of the crust and the rigid uppermost part of the mantle - broken up into tectonic plates (7 major and many minor) - ride on the asthenosphere
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Lithosphere
Equinoxes
Solar eclipse
12. 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)
Rock salt
Geology
Spring tide
larger planet
13. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Block mountains or fold mountains
Nuclear fusion
Petroleum exploration
Strata
14. 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...
snow
The equator
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
jet stream
15. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Continental drift
- mP
Semidiurnal
Climate
16. A ______________ - such as the Mid - Atlantic Ridge - has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart
Transform plate movements
Eclipses
Mid - oceanic ridge
Solar System
17. On maps - the characteristics of an air mass are represented by two letters: The lowercase letter represents ________ - and the uppercase letter represents temperature
Types of clouds
moisture
Rocky planets and moons
El Nino
18. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Hydrologic cycle
Block mountains or fold mountains
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Longitude
19. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Metamorphic rocks
Hydrologic cycle
The equator
Maritime air
20. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
Continental air
Sedimentary rocks
29.5
Evaporation
21. 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
Surface temperature
Solar eclipse
Latitude
El Nino and La Nina
22. 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
Subsurface flow
Hydrologic cycle
Tectonic plates
Distance
23. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
Equinoxes
Ways magma can form
Snowmelt
The rock cycle
24. Earth movements - The result of forces within the earth - where temperature and pressure differences lead to instability
Scratch test
Crustal rocks
Stars
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
25. The resulting dust layer would act as a shield - blocking out much of the sun's rays - This would result in lower global temperatures and a general _____ of the earth
Climate
Clastic
cooling
Short - period comets
26. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
lower elevation
Major oceans
The big bang theory of cosmology
Asteroids
27. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Gravity and inertia
snow
Standard time zones
Daylight saving time zones
28. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Stratus clouds
Block mountains or fold mountains
Cirrus clouds
Surface temperature differences
29. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
Continental air
moisture
Percolation
The geological time scale
30. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface - water bodies (and the ocean) as...
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Cumulonibus clouds
groundwater discharge
New moon
31. 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
Equinoxes
Canopy interception
Planets
Galactic center
32. Occurs at the instant when the sun's position in the sky is at its greatest angular distance on the other side of the equatorial plane from the observer's hemisphere - Depending on the shift of the calendar - the winter solstice occurs some time betw
Winter solstice
Snow packs
Weight and mass
River
33. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
Earth's crust
Orogenic zones
Winter solstice
larger planet
34. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Small islands
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Hydrologic concepts
Geology
35. Occur along plate boundaries
Solar radiation
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Climate
Rainfall
36. The rising of the earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the moon and the sun acting on the oceans
Tides
Percolation
Meteorology
Sublimation
37. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
- mP
Mantle plumes
Rock salt
38. Air currents move clouds around the globe and cloud particles collide - grow - and fall out of the sky as ________ - Most of it falls back into the oceans or onto land - where the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff - portion of run
Tectonic plates
Meteorology
precipitation
Mantle
39. 186000 miles/second
Speed of light
Neap tide/neaps
Spring tide
Canopy interception
40. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Differential heating
29.5
Orogenic zones
Opposite seasons
41. Forms over land and is associated with dry air
Continental air
Solar System
Latitude
Cirrus clouds
42. The spectra of distant objects display a red shift - which is interpreted as meaning that they are rapidly receding from us - This apparent expansion of the universe has given rise to the big bang theory of cosmology - in which one primeval mass expl
Metamorphic rocks
Comet
The big bang theory of cosmology
Troposhere
43. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
Cirrus clouds
Smaller regions of the oceans
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Semidiurnal or diurnal
44. 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
Full moon
Subsurface flow
Limestone
The geological time scale
45. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Asteroids
Gravity and inertia
Troposhere
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
46. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
- mP
Rocky planets and moons
Continental drift
The Gulf - Stream
47. Natural chemical compounds that are the crystals that make up rocks - Each has a specific composition or narrow range of composition
Minerals
Smaller regions of the oceans
Long linear arcs
- mP
48. Center: 3000
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49. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
Rainfall
precipitation
Styles of rock deformation
Nuclear fusion
50. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
precipitation
Subduction zones
Intrusive
Minerals