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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Nuclear fusion
Galaxies
Igneous rocks
Longitude
2. Precipitation - Canopy interception - Snowmelt - Runoff - Percolation - Subsurface flow- Evaporation - Sublimation - Condensation
Extrusive
Tidal range
Hydrologic concepts
Groundwater
3. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Types of clouds
Hydrologic cycle
3/4
Continental air
4. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
Daylight saving time zones
Continental drift
Mantle plumes
Long linear arcs
5. Tides may be...
New moon
Law of original horizontality
Comet nuclei
Semidiurnal or diurnal
6. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
The earth's structure
Troposhere
Earth
7. 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
Runoff
Equinoxes
Galactic center
Petroleum exploration
8. Due to a combination of differential heating and geometry - hen the sun rises - it is the tops of the mountain peaks which receive first light - and as the day progresses - the mountain slopes take on a greater heat load than the valleys - This resul
Air mass
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Types of galaxies
Lunar eclipse
9. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
- mP
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Ice Age
Air mass
10. 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
Latitude
Neap tide/neaps
Full moon
Continental drift
11. 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
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Precipitation
Minerals
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
12. 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
Hydrologic cycle
The big bang theory of cosmology
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
World/global ocean
13. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Short - period comets
Groundwater
Lunar eclipse
Volcano
14. 186000 miles/second
Solar System
Cleavage
Speed of light
Tectonic plates
15. 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
Equinoxes
Comet nuclei
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
16. Almost all familiar weather phenomena occur in the __________ (the lower part of the atmosphere)
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Scratch test
Speed of light
Troposhere
17. Somewhat cooler disturbances in the photosphere
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Extrusive
Comet
Sunspots
18. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
- cT
Clastic
50-100
Erosion and land use
19. 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
- mT
Venus
Stars
Tides
20. 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
Photosphere
groundwater discharge
Types of clouds
21. 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
Speed of light
Semidiurnal or diurnal
50-100
Deserts
22. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Weight and mass
cooling
snow
23. The precipitation that is intercepted by plant foliage and eventually evaporates back to the atmosphere rather than falling to the ground
Comet
Chemical weathering
Orogenic zones
Canopy interception
24. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
percolation
Cirrus clouds
cooling
groundwater discharge
25. A region of the earth that has uniform standard time - usually referred to as the local time - divided into standard and daylight saving (or summer)
freshwater
Time zone
Lithosphere
Evaporation
26. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
moisture
Ways magma can form
Percolation
Colder
27. Maritime tropical (wet - warm air)
Evapotranspiration
- mT
Block mountains or fold mountains
percolation
28. Faulting and folding
Styles of rock deformation
Surface temperature
aquifers
Comet
29. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle
29.5
The Gulf - Stream
Scratch test
5.6
30. Smooth layers of low clouds that indicate a chance of drizzle or snow
Gravity and inertia
5.6
Mohs' scale of hardness
Stratus clouds
31. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
Solar radiation
Gravity and inertia
Igneous rocks
Troposhere
32. 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
World/global ocean
Petroleum exploration
Subsurface flow
The geological time scale
33. Pulls the planets toward the sun - while their inertia keeps them moving forward in an elliptical orbit around the sun
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34. 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
Convergent plate movements
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Rain shadow
Conglomerates
35. Younger beds were originally deposited above older beds
Petroleum exploration
Canopy interception
Law of superposition
Mid - oceanic ridge
36. Some precipitation falls as ____ and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers - which can store water for thousands of years
Percolation
Surface ocean temperature
snow
Solar wind
37. The earth is believed to be about ___ billion years old
Daylight saving time zones
15
5.6
The equator
38. Sometimes called minor planets or planetoids - Bodies
3/4
Cleavage
Asteroids
Mohs' scale of hardness
39. 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
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Density
Law of superposition
The geological time scale
40. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Styles of rock deformation
Tropical air
Air mass
Venus
41. 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
Winter solstice
El Nino and La Nina
Asteroids
Lunar eclipse
42. A land form that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area - with a peak - Usually produced by the movement of lithospheric plates
Moon
Mountain
Rain shadow
Sedimentary rocks
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
Diurnal
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
World/global ocean
Rainfall
44. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
Distance
Intrusive
The rock cycle
Law of original horizontality
45. 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
cooling
Subduction zones
The equator
Weather phenomena on earth
46. 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
Divergent plate movements
Climate
Geology
47. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
clouds
The Gulf - Stream
Solar eclipse
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
48. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the Solar System - especially on...
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Rocky planets and moons
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
The distinction between asteroids and comets
49. Center: 3000
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50. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
10000
freshwater
Daylight saving time zones
cooling