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1. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Groundwater
- cT
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
2. Large - scale movements of the earth's lithosphere - - The theory encompasses the older concepts of continental drift (first half of 20th century) and seafloor spreading (1960s)
Tides
Plate tectonics
Orogenic zones
Canopy interception
3. Formed by sodium chloride
Rock salt
Sedimentary rocks
Extrusive
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
4. The science of the atmosphere and weather
El Nino and La Nina
Meteorology
Cumulonibus clouds
Convergent tectonic plates
5. Classified as warm - water or cold - water currents
Surface ocean currents
Convergent tectonic plates
Gravity and inertia
Uniformitarianism
6. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels
Air mass
Conglomerates
Tides
Extrusive
7. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
Divergent plate movements
Evaporation
snow
Distance
8. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
Small islands
Erosion and land use
Law of superposition
Andromeda galaxy
9. 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
29.5
snow
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
The earth's structure
10. Earth movements - The result of forces within the earth - where temperature and pressure differences lead to instability
New moon
Rock salt
Crustal rocks
Rocky planets and moons
11. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through atmospheric chemicals or biologically produced chemicals (also known as biological weathering)
Chemical weathering
Types of galaxies
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Tidal range
12. On maps - the characteristics of an air mass are represented by two letters: The lowercase letter represents ________ - and the uppercase letter represents temperature
moisture
Opposite seasons
Smaller regions of the oceans
larger planet
13. 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
Andromeda galaxy
Solar wind
Inertia
Neap tide/neaps
14. Form when magma or lava cools and solidifies - Depending on the rate of cooling - can contain visible crystals - while others can appear glassy
Igneous rocks
Surface temperature differences
Nuclear fusion
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15. 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
Crustal rocks
Subduction zones
Pacific Ring of Fire
Hydrologic cycle
16. One tidal cycle per day
Gravity and inertia
Diurnal
Evapotranspiration
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
17. 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...
Solar wind
Distance
Differential heating
Colder
18. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault
Gravity and inertia
Mid - oceanic ridge
Transform plate movements
Surface temperature
19. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
The rock cycle
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Condensation
precipitation
20. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
Mountain
- cT
Standard time zones
Climate
21. Smooth layers of low clouds that indicate a chance of drizzle or snow
Crustal rocks
aquifers
Stratus clouds
Neap tide/neaps
22. 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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23. Water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil
The geological time scale
- mT
Evapotranspiration
Coral reef
24. Less than 1% of the earth; this relatively thin zone (5 to 25 miles) contains the only rocks we can study - even in the deepest mines or drill holes
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Crust
Eclipses
25. Forms over land and is associated with dry air
Chemical weathering
Stratus clouds
Longitude
Continental air
26. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the ________
Surface temperature
Rainfall
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
jet stream
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
jet stream
New moon
clouds
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
28. Almost all familiar weather phenomena occur in the __________ (the lower part of the atmosphere)
Transform plate movements
Parallax
Differential heating
Troposhere
29. 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.
Troposhere
Mohs' scale of hardness
Comet
Scratch test
30. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
Block mountains or fold mountains
Mineral color
Troposhere
Colder
31. Most sediments were deposited in beds that were originally horizontal - and any tilting is due to later earth movements
Transform plate movements
Law of original horizontality
Strata
Metamorphic rocks
32. Occur when two plates pull away from each other - Such faults are generally weak and shallow Example: the Mid - Atlantic Range in the Atlantic Ocean
Divergent plate movements
Tectonic plates
Inertia
Daylight saving time zones
33. 1 hour of time
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
clouds
Surface temperature
15
34. Form when dissolved mineral solutions crystalize out of lakes and oceans
Solar wind
Chemical sedimentary rocks
50-100
Colder
35. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Polar air
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
World/global ocean
Daylight saving time zones
36. 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
Density
Continental air
Condensation
Mantle
37. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
- mP
Longitude
Eclipses
38. 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
Short - period comets
Meteorology
Sedimentary rocks
Tropical air
39. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
Comet nuclei
Subsurface flow
lower elevation
Axis tilt
40. Nearest galaxy - about 20 million light - years away
Andromeda galaxy
cooling
Conglomerates
snow
41. 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
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Erosion
Volcano
Convergent plate movements
42. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Strata
Weathering
freshwater springs
Surface temperature differences
43. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
groundwater discharge
Condensation
Surface temperature
The equator
44. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
Full moon
Plate tectonics
Comet nuclei
Types of galaxies
45. 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
Solar eclipse
Petroleum exploration
freshwater
46. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
Latitude
Time zone
Meteorology
Convergent tectonic plates
47. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
jet stream
Canopy interception
Intrusive
Full moon
48. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Canopy interception
Short - period comets
Distance
Volcano
49. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
The rock cycle
Galaxies
freshwater
Snowmelt
50. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
Small islands
Rainfall
Convergent plate movements
Mohs' scale of hardness
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