SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CSET Earth
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
cset
,
science
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Short - period comets
Cleavage
Continental drift
Types of clouds
2. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
Snowmelt
New moon
- cT
Chaotic system
3. A warm - water current that carries warm water from the Tropics to the Arctic regions of the North Atlantic Ocean - This accounts for higher temperatures and higher humidity on the Eastern Seaboard during the summer
Eclipses
The geological time scale
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
The Gulf - Stream
4. 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
Mid - oceanic ridge
moisture
Deserts
46%
5. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
La Nina
larger planet
The earth's structure
Mid - oceanic ridge
6. Igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface - Examples obsidian - basalt - and pumice
Ways magma can form
- cP
Extrusive
Opposite seasons
7. 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
- mP
Differential heating
Rainfall
groundwater discharge
8. Younger beds were originally deposited above older beds
Comet nuclei
Cumulonibus clouds
Law of superposition
Coral reef
9. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Semidiurnal
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
5.6
Solar radiation
10. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
Maritime air
groundwater discharge
50-100
The distinction between asteroids and comets
11. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Hydrologic cycle
Erosion and land use
Standard time zones
Rain shadow
12. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
29.5
Cleavage
Distance
larger planet
13. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
- cT
Nuclear fusion
Types of clouds
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
14. Two feldspars (orthoclase and plagioclase) - quartz - olivine - and augite - These five minerals are silicates - built from interlocking silicon and oxygen atoms
Continental drift
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Photosphere
Why weather occurs
15. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
Galaxies
Crustal rocks
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
29.5
16. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
Meteorology
Types of galaxies
Full moon
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
17. The tidal force produced by the sun is ____ as large as that produced by the moon
46%
Spring tide
Solar radiation
Crustal rocks
18. 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
Metamorphic rocks
Strata
Evapotranspiration
19. 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
- cP
Precipitation
Convergent plate movements
Volcano
20. The outermost part of the earth's interior is made up of two layers...
Earth
Subsurface flow
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Air mass
21. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
Latitude
Tectonic plates
11
Longitude
22. Result from the earth's axis being tilted to its orbital plane - NOT the result of the variation in the earth's distance to the sun (Because of its elliptical orbit - the earth as a whole is slightly warmer when away from the sun; this is because the
Inertia
Altostratus clouds
Seasons
Metamorphic rocks
23. 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
Smaller regions of the oceans
Differential heating
cooling
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
24. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the Solar System - especially on...
Rocky planets and moons
Hydrologic cycle
Solar wind
29.5
25. Tides may be...
Long - period comets
Solar eclipse
Semidiurnal or diurnal
10000
26. Travels in an orbit that is slightly elliptical (oval) - and so the distance from the sun ranges from 91.5 to 94.5 million miles - Its daily rotation deforms the earth to a flattened spheroid - with a polar radius slightly less than the equatorial ra
moisture
Earth
Surface ocean temperature
Examples to support Continental drift theory
27. Sometimes called minor planets or planetoids - Bodies
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Asteroids
Styles of rock deformation
Clastic
28. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
Small islands
Tropical air
Asteroids
Standard time zones
29. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle
Erosion and land use
29.5
Petroleum exploration
Galactic center
30. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
Altostratus clouds
Distance
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Intrusive
31. 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
Deserts
Subduction zones
Chaotic system
Sublimation
32. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
Spring tide
- mP
River
Surface ocean temperature
33. Forms over land and is associated with dry air
Crustal rocks
Continental air
snow
Coral reef
34. Form when magma or lava cools and solidifies - Depending on the rate of cooling - can contain visible crystals - while others can appear glassy
Hydrologic cycle
Rocky planets and moons
Types of clouds
Igneous rocks
35. Rocks are placed into groups according to how they form...
Limestone
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Andromeda galaxy
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
36. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Ice Age
Seasons
Comet nuclei
Comet
37. The rising of the earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the moon and the sun acting on the oceans
Density
Geology
Tides
Block mountains or fold mountains
38. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Daylight saving time zones
Intrusive
Galaxies
39. Loose collections of ice - dust - and small rocky particles - measuring a few kilometers or tens of kilometers across
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Snowmelt
Conglomerates
Comet nuclei
40. Ancient astronomers found that eclipses occurred periodically and learned to predict them accurately - Lunar and solar
Eclipses
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Lunar eclipse
Extrusive
41. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
- mP
Solar radiation
Chemical weathering
Tides
42. The degrees north or south of the equator
larger planet
Latitude
Sun's gravity
Plate tectonics
43. 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
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Latitude
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Solar eclipse
44. Solar Atmosphere is divided into the inner chromosphere with explosive prominences and the outer corona - a glowing halo visible only during a total eclipse - Constantly emitting particles as a...
- mP
Solar wind
Lunar eclipse
Mid - oceanic ridge
45. Traces of ancient life preserved in the strata as shells - footprints - and the like - Soft plant and animal tissues decompose quickly in the presence of decay bacteria - which exist wherever oxygen exists
Fossils
Polar air
Speed of light
aquifers
46. This upslope wind is called a...
Petroleum exploration
Valley breeze
Conglomerates
Lunar eclipse
47. Center: 3000
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
48. A ______________ - such as the Mid - Atlantic Ridge - has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart
Strata
Mid - oceanic ridge
Spring tide
Mohs' scale of hardness
49. The tendency of a moving object to stay in a straight line or a stationary object to remain in place - Without _______ - a planet would be pulled into the sun
Percolation
Inertia
River
Pacific Ring of Fire
50. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Mountain
Groundwater
El Nino
Distance