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CSET Earth
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1. 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
Planets
Tropical air
Tidal range
2. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Conglomerates
Law of superposition
Cirrus clouds
Longitude
3. 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
Groundwater
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Fossils
4. Runoff and groundwater are stored as ________ in lakes
Earth
Eclipses
larger planet
freshwater
5. 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
clouds
Mechanical/physical weathering
Weather phenomena on earth
The equator
6. How much matter is in the object
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Law of original horizontality
Latitude
Density
7. Cause pressure differences - A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands - lowering the air pressure and its density
Evaporation
Surface temperature differences
Law of superposition
Plate tectonics
8. Somewhat cooler disturbances in the photosphere
Transpiration
Sunspots
Intrusive
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
9. The tidal force produced by the sun is ____ as large as that produced by the moon
46%
Speed of light
Lunar eclipse
El Nino and La Nina
10. The outermost part of the earth's interior is made up of two layers...
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Gravity and inertia
precipitation
10000
11. Takes approx. seven and a half earth months to revolve around the sun - Takes approx. eight earth months to rotate on its axis - a day on ________ is longer than a year
Solar wind
Evaporation
Differential heating
Venus
12. The variety of ways by which water moves across the land - This includes both surface runoff and channel runoff - As it flows - the water may percolate into the ground - evaporate into the air - become stored in lakes or reservoirs - or be extracted
Neap tide/neaps
Uniformitarianism
Runoff
The earth's structure
13. Divided into two main types: large - low- density gas giants and smaller - rocky terrestrials - There are at least 341 identified _______ - 8 of which are in the Solar System
- cT
Erosion and land use
Block mountains or fold mountains
Planets
14. 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
Cumulonibus clouds
Rain shadow
Volcano
California coast
15. Distance to closest stars can be calculated by measuring the _________ - a slight shift in apparent position against the background of more distant stars as the earth travels around the sun
Parallax
Convergent plate movements
Fossils
Altostratus clouds
16. 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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17. 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
Andromeda galaxy
15
The rock cycle
Inertia
18. Earth movements - The result of forces within the earth - where temperature and pressure differences lead to instability
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
29.5
Stars
Crustal rocks
19. 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
Major oceans
The equator
Law of original horizontality
Equinoxes
20. Some precipitation falls as ____ and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers - which can store water for thousands of years
El Nino
Earth's crust
jet stream
snow
21. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
freshwater
Air mass
Nuclear fusion
Sublimation
22. - The materials left over after the rock breaks down combine with organic material - The mineral content is determined by the parent material; thus - a soil derived from a single rock type can often be deficient in one or more minerals for good ferti
Rain shadow
Soil
Erosion and land use
Cirrus clouds
23. 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
Colder
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Chaotic system
Sedimentary rocks
24. Not all runoff flows into rivers; much of it infiltrates into the ground through...
larger planet
percolation
Equinoxes
Nuclear fusion
25. 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
Latitude
Why weather occurs
Sunspots
26. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Subduction zones
Pacific Ring of Fire
Block mountains or fold mountains
Small islands
27. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the ________
The big bang theory of cosmology
Crust
jet stream
Transpiration
28. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Soil
Semidiurnal
Stars
Percolation
29. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
Altostratus clouds
Surface temperature differences
Deserts
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
30. This upslope wind is called a...
Latitude
Snow packs
Valley breeze
Continental drift
31. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
River
Eclipses
Rocky planets and moons
Daylight saving time zones
32. The precipitation that is intercepted by plant foliage and eventually evaporates back to the atmosphere rather than falling to the ground
aquifers
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Divergent plate movements
Canopy interception
33. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
The geological time scale
Moon
Distance
Weight and mass
34. 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
Parallax
Earth's crust
Short - period comets
Seasons
35. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Estuary
Tidal range
Tropical air
36. A semi - closed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it - and with a free connection to the open sea - Often associated with high levels of biological diversity - They are made up of brackish water - Often given names
Differential heating
Venus
Estuary
Winter solstice
37. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Comet nuclei
freshwater
Weight and mass
Erosion
38. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
Lithosphere
Evaporation
World/global ocean
clouds
39. 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
Opposite seasons
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Why weather occurs
40. 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
cooling
Winter solstice
Troposhere
El Nino
41. 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
Long - period comets
Condensation
Solar radiation
The rock cycle
42. Ancient astronomers found that eclipses occurred periodically and learned to predict them accurately - Lunar and solar
Convergent tectonic plates
Eclipses
Moon
Metamorphic rocks
43. The science of the atmosphere and weather
Surface temperature differences
Petroleum exploration
Meteorology
lower
44. 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
Venus
Ice Age
Solar wind
Deserts
45. The farther from the tropics you are positioned - the ________ the angle of the sun - This causes those locations to be cooler due to the indirect sunlight
lower
Petroleum exploration
Neap tide/neaps
Transform plate movements
46. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Erosion and land use
Sun
Earth
Asteroids
47. Precipitation - Canopy interception - Snowmelt - Runoff - Percolation - Subsurface flow- Evaporation - Sublimation - Condensation
Hydrologic concepts
Latitude
- mT
Small islands
48. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Types of galaxies
- cP
The big bang theory of cosmology
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
49. 4 terrestrials: Mercury - Venus - Mars - Earth 4 gas giants: Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune At least 5 dwarf planets: Ceres - Pluto - Makemake - Haumea - Eris
snow
Solar System
Time zone
Lunar eclipse
50. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Cleavage
Erosion
Neap tide/neaps
- mT