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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Forms over land and is associated with dry air
Differential heating
Snow packs
Continental air
World/global ocean
2. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Groundwater
Semidiurnal
10000
Planets
3. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
El Nino
Extrusive
Short - period comets
Venus
4. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
Mineral color
lower elevation
larger planet
Chemical sedimentary rocks
5. The motive force behind land breezes and sea/lake breezes - also known as on - or off - shore winds - Land absorbs and radiates heat faster than water - but water releases heat over a longer period of time
Cleavage
Differential heating
Mountain
Air mass
6. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
larger planet
Parallax
Evapotranspiration
7. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
Mechanical/physical weathering
Density
Standard time zones
Chemical sedimentary rocks
8. Formed by sodium chloride
Daylight saving time zones
California coast
Mountain
Rock salt
9. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
The geological time scale
Percolation
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
The rock cycle
10. Classified as warm - water or cold - water currents
Maritime air
Sun's gravity
Stratus clouds
Surface ocean currents
11. 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
Spring tide
Latitude
Plate tectonics
Deserts
12. One tidal cycle per day
freshwater
Neap tide/neaps
Diurnal
Solar radiation
13. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
Sun
Percolation
Colder
lower
14. The center of the sun may have a temperature of millions of degrees; the visible surface - the ______ - is about 6000
Evapotranspiration
Lithosphere
Earth's crust
Photosphere
15. 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
Crustal rocks
Long linear arcs
Winter solstice
Orogenic zones
16. Nearest galaxy - about 20 million light - years away
Andromeda galaxy
Groundwater
Nuclear fusion
10000
17. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through atmospheric chemicals or biologically produced chemicals (also known as biological weathering)
moisture
Chemical weathering
Transform plate movements
Law of original horizontality
18. 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
Long - period comets
percolation
clouds
Neap tide/neaps
19. On maps - the characteristics of an air mass are represented by two letters: The lowercase letter represents ________ - and the uppercase letter represents temperature
lower elevation
Volcano
Cirrus clouds
moisture
20. Sometimes called minor planets or planetoids - Bodies
Semidiurnal
Asteroids
Weather phenomena on earth
Metamorphic rocks
21. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
- cP
clouds
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Solar System
22. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Mid - oceanic ridge
Weather phenomena on earth
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Opposite seasons
23. Water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil
Weather phenomena on earth
Evapotranspiration
Types of galaxies
Fossils
24. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
Semidiurnal or diurnal
World/global ocean
Smaller regions of the oceans
Surface temperature differences
25. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Block mountains or fold mountains
Maritime air
Hydrologic concepts
Tropical air
26. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Parallax
Crustal rocks
Deserts
Weathering
27. 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
Lithosphere
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Estuary
Galaxies
28. Sun heats water in the oceans - Water evaporates as vapor into the air - Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor...- Over time - the water reenters the ocean - where the water cycle started
Hydrologic cycle
Precipitation
Valley breeze
Andromeda galaxy
29. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
Gravity and inertia
Intrusive
Crustal rocks
Earth
30. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
Short - period comets
Altostratus clouds
Convergent tectonic plates
Limestone
31. 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
Tides
Subsurface flow
El Nino
Igneous rocks
32. 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
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Tectonic plates
Latitude
Andromeda galaxy
33. 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
Orogenic zones
Sedimentary rocks
Air mass
Tidal range
34. 1 hour of time
15
Extrusive
Photosphere
Law of original horizontality
35. 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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36. 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.
Convergent plate movements
La Nina
Winter solstice
Scratch test
37. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
Groundwater
Sun's gravity
Surface temperature
Igneous rocks
38. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
Latitude
29.5
- cT
Chaotic system
39. Occur along plate boundaries
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Mechanical/physical weathering
Minerals
Asteroids
40. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Semidiurnal
Types of galaxies
The equator
41. 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
precipitation
Meteorology
Extrusive
Weather phenomena on earth
42. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels
Latitude
River
Estuary
Air mass
43. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Runoff
Ice Age
46%
Sublimation
44. 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
Meteorology
Neap tide/neaps
Strata
Volcano
45. Characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the same area - Atlanta tropical cyclone activity is generally enhanced during La Nina - Often follows the El Nino - especially when the latter is strong
La Nina
Types of galaxies
Continental drift
Convergent tectonic plates
46. 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
Runoff
Tropical air
El Nino
47. 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
Mantle plumes
Planets
snow
Moon
48. 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
Conglomerates
Solar wind
New moon
Deserts
49. 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)
jet stream
Surface temperature
Plate tectonics
Spring tide
50. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
- cP
The geological time scale
Transpiration
Snowmelt