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CSET Earth
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1. Can influence climate by sending tremendous volumes of dust - ash - and smoke into the atmosphere
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Subsurface flow
15
Transpiration
2. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
Polar air
lower elevation
Tropical air
Precipitation
3. Refers to the long - term weather patterns of a large geographical area and takes into account temperature - humidity - and precipitation
Nuclear fusion
Climate
Chaotic system
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
4. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Weathering
The equator
- mT
Minerals
5. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Percolation
Venus
El Nino
Opposite seasons
6. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle
29.5
Precipitation
River
El Nino
7. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
Mechanical/physical weathering
Rock salt
Major oceans
Continental drift
8. 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
moisture
Geology
Subsurface flow
Climate
9. The degrees north or south of the equator
Latitude
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Runoff
Continental air
10. How much matter is in the object
Density
Runoff
Valley breeze
Sunspots
11. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Small islands
Percolation
Ice Age
12. Precipitation - Canopy interception - Snowmelt - Runoff - Percolation - Subsurface flow- Evaporation - Sublimation - Condensation
Hydrologic concepts
Rocky planets and moons
Eclipses
Smaller regions of the oceans
13. Forms over land and is associated with dry air
Air mass
aquifers
Continental air
Mid - oceanic ridge
14. 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
Asteroids
Conglomerates
Moon
The rock cycle
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
Stratus clouds
Long linear arcs
jet stream
Winter solstice
16. Typically the tidal mouths of rivers and are often characterized by _____________ or silt carried in from terrestrial runoff - frequently from offshore
Precipitation
Evaporation
Sedimentation
Air mass
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18. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
Plate tectonics
Snow packs
Speed of light
Condensation
19. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault
Crust
Transform plate movements
Hydrologic cycle
Moon
20. 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
percolation
Canopy interception
Lunar eclipse
The big bang theory of cosmology
21. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Snow packs
Daylight saving time zones
Canopy interception
22. An area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions associated with the plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean - In a 40000 km horseshoe shape - associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches - volcanic arcs - and volcanic
Plate tectonics
Pacific Ring of Fire
- mP
Short - period comets
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
cooling
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Mohs' scale of hardness
Tides
24. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Cleavage
freshwater
percolation
Density
25. Occur when two plates push together - Such faults are strong and relatively deep - Where the strongest earthquakes occur Example: mountain building in the Himalayas and the Andes
- cT
Convergent plate movements
Planets
Stratus clouds
26. 186000 miles/second
Speed of light
Coral reef
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Diurnal
27. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes ________ - which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time
Plate tectonics
aquifers
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Hydrologic cycle
28. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
The earth's structure
46%
Tectonic plates
Extrusive
29. (in descending order of size) the Pacific Ocean - the Atlantic Ocean - the Indian Ocean - the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean
Major oceans
Rainfall
Photosphere
Sunspots
30. Temperature - pressure - and composition
Rainfall
Groundwater
Ways magma can form
Smaller regions of the oceans
31. 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
Crust
Subsurface flow
Major oceans
32. 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
29.5
Surface ocean temperature
El Nino
freshwater
33. 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
Eclipses
The Gulf - Stream
Deserts
Mountain
34. The cold - water current that flows north to south off the _____________ keeps the West Coast fairly cool during the summer - Cold - water currents create cooler temperatures in areas that would otherwise be much warmer
California coast
Earth
Lithosphere
El Nino and La Nina
35. 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
Solar eclipse
Divergent plate movements
Daylight saving time zones
Rock salt
36. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
Venus
Snow packs
Distance
Plate tectonics
37. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the ________
Surface temperature differences
Tropical air
jet stream
Surface ocean temperature
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
Cumulonibus clouds
precipitation
Percolation
The geological time scale
39. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Cirrus clouds
Plate tectonics
Hydrologic concepts
Geology
40. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
Solar radiation
Mantle
Altostratus clouds
Clastic
41. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Snow packs
Erosion and land use
Strata
Troposhere
42. 1 hour of time
15
Erosion and land use
lower elevation
Planets
43. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Colder
Transform plate movements
Short - period comets
Inertia
44. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
Solar eclipse
Opposite seasons
freshwater springs
Comet nuclei
45. The fossiliferous strata record is only the last __% of the earth's history
Parallax
Semidiurnal or diurnal
11
clouds
46. Maritime tropical (wet - warm air)
Mid - oceanic ridge
- mT
La Nina
Convergent plate movements
47. 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...
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Types of galaxies
Solar wind
Maritime air
48. 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
Diurnal
Time zone
Full moon
Valley breeze
49. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Transpiration
Rainfall
Rocky planets and moons
Ice Age
50. Loose collections of ice - dust - and small rocky particles - measuring a few kilometers or tens of kilometers across
Long - period comets
El Nino and La Nina
Soil
Comet nuclei