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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The runoff produced by melting snow
Uniformitarianism
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Snowmelt
Tidal range
2. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
Minerals
clouds
Subsurface flow
New moon
3. Two feldspars (orthoclase and plagioclase) - quartz - olivine - and augite - These five minerals are silicates - built from interlocking silicon and oxygen atoms
Galaxies
Orogenic zones
The most abundant minerals in the crust
46%
4. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
Subduction zones
Parallax
Percolation
Small islands
5. 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
The big bang theory of cosmology
La Nina
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Stratus clouds
6. Most sediments were deposited in beds that were originally horizontal - and any tilting is due to later earth movements
Rainfall
Law of original horizontality
- cT
The most abundant minerals in the crust
7. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Groundwater
Inertia
Crustal rocks
Block mountains or fold mountains
8. The science of the atmosphere and weather
Condensation
5.6
Maritime air
Meteorology
9. 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.
Scratch test
Standard time zones
3/4
Rocky planets and moons
10. 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
Deserts
Subduction zones
Sedimentary rocks
Mantle
11. 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)
Standard time zones
Spring tide
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Daylight saving time zones
12. Occur twice a year - when the tilt of the earth's axis is oriented neither from nor to the sun - causing the sun to be located vertically above a point on the equator - The name derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night) - because at the e
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Parallax
Equinoxes
Evapotranspiration
13. 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
Rain shadow
Lithosphere
50-100
Evaporation
14. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle
Maritime air
29.5
Mid - oceanic ridge
10000
15. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
Continental drift
Precipitation
Orogenic zones
Standard time zones
16. 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
Seasons
clouds
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Hydrologic concepts
17. Cirrus - Stratus - Cumulonimbus - Altostratus
Types of clouds
5.6
The Gulf - Stream
Rocky planets and moons
18. Not all runoff flows into rivers; much of it infiltrates into the ground through...
Crust
percolation
Conglomerates
Tidal range
19. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
Surface temperature
Runoff
Groundwater
World/global ocean
20. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Convergent tectonic plates
Geology
Andromeda galaxy
Intrusive
21. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Groundwater
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Small islands
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
22. Pulls the planets toward the sun - while their inertia keeps them moving forward in an elliptical orbit around the sun
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23. Temperature - pressure - and composition
Ways magma can form
Altostratus clouds
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Divergent plate movements
24. 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
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Sedimentary rocks
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Petroleum exploration
25. The rising of the earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the moon and the sun acting on the oceans
Inertia
29.5
Lithosphere
Tides
26. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Erosion
Gravity and inertia
Groundwater
The rock cycle
27. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
Sublimation
Block mountains or fold mountains
New moon
Types of galaxies
28. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
Block mountains or fold mountains
50-100
Standard time zones
Condensation
29. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through atmospheric chemicals or biologically produced chemicals (also known as biological weathering)
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Chemical weathering
Climate
jet stream
30. Generally forms deep in the mantle as one type of rock changes into another - Due to intense pressure - can show signs of bending and distortion - Examples: schist - marble - gneiss - and slate
Solar eclipse
World/global ocean
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Metamorphic rocks
31. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
50-100
Inertia
- mP
Weather phenomena on earth
32. Earth movements - The result of forces within the earth - where temperature and pressure differences lead to instability
Stratus clouds
larger planet
Crustal rocks
Examples to support Continental drift theory
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
Ice Age
Sedimentary rocks
Conglomerates
Extrusive
34. 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
Time zone
Air mass
Subduction zones
Moon
35. Tides may be...
Axis tilt
Continental drift
Estuary
Semidiurnal or diurnal
36. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Neap tide/neaps
Metamorphic rocks
Surface temperature
Cleavage
37. How much matter is in the object
Opposite seasons
groundwater discharge
Density
Axis tilt
38. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Planets
Stratus clouds
Ice Age
freshwater springs
39. A ______________ - such as the Mid - Atlantic Ridge - has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart
La Nina
Climate
Mid - oceanic ridge
Sun
40. Ancient astronomers found that eclipses occurred periodically and learned to predict them accurately - Lunar and solar
Earth
Eclipses
46%
Full moon
41. The degrees north or south of the equator
Stratus clouds
Eclipses
Sun's gravity
Latitude
42. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes ________ - which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time
Andromeda galaxy
Mohs' scale of hardness
46%
aquifers
43. Comprises one global - interconnected body of salt water often (though generally recognized as several separate oceans) - A continuous body of water with relatively free interchange among its parts
Chaotic system
World/global ocean
Mohs' scale of hardness
Full moon
44. Method of using the present to interpret the past - Processes occurring today are observed carefully and their effects are measured - Then - geologists assume that similar effects in ancient rocks were caused by processes similar to those of the pres
Semidiurnal
Crustal rocks
Surface temperature differences
Uniformitarianism
45. Typically the tidal mouths of rivers and are often characterized by _____________ or silt carried in from terrestrial runoff - frequently from offshore
Earth
Pacific Ring of Fire
Sedimentation
Weathering
46. The outermost part of the earth's interior is made up of two layers...
Chaotic system
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Polar air
Canopy interception
47. Further caused by the elliptical orbit of the earth - Earth reaches perihelion (the point in its orbit closest to the sun) in January - and it reaches aphelion (farthest point from the sun) in July - Also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Tectonic plates
Evaporation
Types of clouds
48. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
15
Weather phenomena on earth
Rainfall
50-100
49. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
Tectonic plates
Transpiration
Hydrologic cycle
Examples to support Continental drift theory
50. 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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