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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. One tidal cycle per day
Geology
Diurnal
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
The Gulf - Stream
2. 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
Sun
11
Convergent plate movements
Tropical air
3. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
El Nino and La Nina
29.5
Photosphere
Nuclear fusion
4. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Eclipses
Cumulonibus clouds
Tropical air
Transpiration
5. Maritime tropical (wet - warm air)
Opposite seasons
Canopy interception
- mT
Chemical sedimentary rocks
6. 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
Surface temperature differences
Sunspots
Mountain
Full moon
7. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault
Longitude
Clastic
Spring tide
Transform plate movements
8. Used to arrange strata in a standard order - Used to measure the amount of radioactive decay in minerals and calculate the time at which the rock formed
The geological time scale
Tidal range
Inertia
Petroleum exploration
9. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
Semidiurnal
Lithosphere
Evaporation
Igneous rocks
10. 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.
Erosion and land use
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Scratch test
The big bang theory of cosmology
11. This upslope wind is called a...
Surface temperature differences
Earth
Valley breeze
El Nino
12. Believed to originate at a much greater distance from the Sun - in a cloud (the Oort cloud) consisting of debris left over from the condensation of solar nebula - Comets are thrown from the outer planets or nearby stars - or as a result of collisions
Rain shadow
Small islands
Long - period comets
Types of clouds
13. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Fossils
Scratch test
Cleavage
14. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
- mP
15
Surface ocean temperature
The rock cycle
15. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
Earth
Plate tectonics
Transpiration
Intrusive
16. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Daylight saving time zones
Percolation
River
Tectonic plates
17. Igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface - Examples obsidian - basalt - and pumice
Scratch test
Seasons
Extrusive
Eclipses
18. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Opposite seasons
Weather phenomena on earth
Styles of rock deformation
Tides
19. Natural chemical compounds that are the crystals that make up rocks - Each has a specific composition or narrow range of composition
Galaxies
Weather phenomena on earth
Minerals
Chemical sedimentary rocks
20. Condensed water vapor that falls to the earth's surface - Most precipitation occurs as rain - but also includes snow - hail - fog drip - graupel - and sleet
aquifers
Precipitation
Limestone
Colder
21. 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
50-100
Venus
Crustal rocks
California coast
22. 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
Galactic center
Air mass
Snowmelt
23. The center of the sun may have a temperature of millions of degrees; the visible surface - the ______ - is about 6000
Convergent plate movements
Full moon
Photosphere
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
24. The science of the atmosphere and weather
Meteorology
Smaller regions of the oceans
Rock salt
cooling
25. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
Orogenic zones
Continental drift
Major oceans
5.6
26. 186000 miles/second
Speed of light
Fossils
Valley breeze
lower elevation
27. 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
Pacific Ring of Fire
Earth's crust
Conglomerates
Subduction zones
28. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Sun's gravity
Sublimation
Mid - oceanic ridge
Smaller regions of the oceans
29. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Gravity and inertia
Comet nuclei
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Pacific Ring of Fire
30. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the Solar System - especially on...
50-100
Rocky planets and moons
Plate tectonics
Maritime air
31. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the...
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32. 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
5.6
California coast
Seasons
Metamorphic rocks
33. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
Continental air
Convergent tectonic plates
Rainfall
Rocky planets and moons
34. The earth is believed to be about ___ billion years old
46%
5.6
groundwater discharge
The distinction between asteroids and comets
35. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle
Cleavage
The equator
Longitude
29.5
36. 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
Sublimation
Latitude
Uniformitarianism
jet stream
37. Forms south of the Arctic and is cold
Crust
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Law of original horizontality
Polar air
38. The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean - and thus its temperature extremes are buffered by the water - The result is that the South Pole is consistently _______ during the southern winter than the North Pole during the northern winter
Planets
Colder
Convergent tectonic plates
3/4
39. Giant masses of solid rock that float upon the earth's mantle - These plates move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries...
46%
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Full moon
Continental air
40. Officially defined as sustained sea surface temperature anomalies of magnitude greater than 0.5
Rainfall
Convergent tectonic plates
Continental drift
El Nino and La Nina
41. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
Mineral color
The earth's structure
Standard time zones
Earth's crust
42. The layers of sediment deposited in a quiet environment - Common sites of deposition are lakes - deltas at the mouths of rivers - beaches and sandbars along the coast - and (most important) the marine environment
The earth's structure
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Galaxies
Strata
43. Zero degrees latitude - generally has a tropical climate (warm and wet); at the extreme northern and southern latitudes (polar regions) - the climate is very cold and dry
Rock salt
jet stream
46%
The equator
44. The precipitation that is intercepted by plant foliage and eventually evaporates back to the atmosphere rather than falling to the ground
Photosphere
Canopy interception
New moon
El Nino
45. Texture is important in classifying ______ sedimentary rocks
Mid - oceanic ridge
3/4
Clastic
Why weather occurs
46. Large - dark clouds that indicate thunderstorms
Cumulonibus clouds
Short - period comets
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Weather phenomena on earth
47. Continental polar (dry - cold air)
- cP
El Nino and La Nina
Ways magma can form
Types of galaxies
48. 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
Stars
Erosion and land use
Solar eclipse
Inertia
49. 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
Mohs' scale of hardness
Chemical weathering
Hydrologic cycle
Surface ocean currents
50. Bodies similar to the sun but immensely distant - Closest stars are 4 light - years away
Mineral color
Axis tilt
Spring tide
Stars