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CSET Earth
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1. (in descending order of size) the Pacific Ocean - the Atlantic Ocean - the Indian Ocean - the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean
Deserts
Surface temperature differences
Major oceans
Short - period comets
2. 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
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Mechanical/physical weathering
Distance
Asteroids
3. Traces of ancient life preserved in the strata as shells - footprints - and the like - Soft plant and animal tissues decompose quickly in the presence of decay bacteria - which exist wherever oxygen exists
Surface ocean currents
Fossils
Transpiration
Diurnal
4. One tidal cycle per day
El Nino and La Nina
Diurnal
Metamorphic rocks
Crust
5. Rocks are placed into groups according to how they form...
Tides
Solar eclipse
Photosphere
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
6. 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
Seasons
15
Mineral color
Stratus clouds
7. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
Galaxies
Transform plate movements
The rock cycle
Precipitation
8. 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
Standard time zones
Sedimentary rocks
Chemical weathering
Chaotic system
9. Smooth layers of low clouds that indicate a chance of drizzle or snow
Evaporation
Tidal range
Stratus clouds
larger planet
10. 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
lower
Mohs' scale of hardness
Divergent plate movements
Runoff
11. 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...
Sedimentation
50-100
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Stars
12. Darkens the moon as the earth passes between it and the sun - casting a shadow on the moon - may be seen from anywhere the moon is visible - about half of the earth
Estuary
Lunar eclipse
Mantle plumes
Petroleum exploration
13. Takes place when the moon passes between the earth and the sun - with the moon blocking the sunlight for about two minutes - A total ___________ may be seen only from a small zone on the earth
Sunspots
Earth's crust
Solar eclipse
Weathering
14. 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
Short - period comets
Evapotranspiration
Soil
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16. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
Ways magma can form
Solar eclipse
Solar radiation
Andromeda galaxy
17. Natural chemical compounds that are the crystals that make up rocks - Each has a specific composition or narrow range of composition
Cumulonibus clouds
Minerals
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Time zone
18. Cause pressure differences - A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands - lowering the air pressure and its density
Venus
Mantle plumes
Gravity and inertia
Surface temperature differences
19. Sedimentary rocks containing large fragments of other rock material - e.g. Sandstone
Rocky planets and moons
El Nino and La Nina
Colder
Conglomerates
20. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Metamorphic rocks
Parallax
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
21. 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
Rocky planets and moons
Neap tide/neaps
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Asteroids
22. 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.
Snowmelt
The geological time scale
Scratch test
Mountain
23. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
Maritime air
Petroleum exploration
Altostratus clouds
- mP
24. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Ice Age
Semidiurnal
Longitude
Chemical weathering
25. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
The earth's structure
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
29.5
Short - period comets
26. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
The Gulf - Stream
Groundwater
lower
Hydrologic cycle
27. 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
Solar System
Inertia
46%
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
28. A huge ball of incandescent gases - Its mass is more than 300000 times that of the earth - Principal constituents are the lightest elements - hydrogen and helium
Sublimation
Volcano
Ice Age
Sun
29. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Longitude
Maritime air
Distance
Lunar eclipse
30. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
5.6
Weathering
Surface temperature differences
50-100
31. The best determiner of climate - as it is consistently and directly correlated with temperature - other factors: Rain shadows - as well as water currents - elevation and so forth
Latitude
Full moon
Crustal rocks
- cP
32. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
clouds
Ice Age
Erosion and land use
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
33. Bodies similar to the sun but immensely distant - Closest stars are 4 light - years away
Stars
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Rocky planets and moons
Asteroids
34. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
Tidal range
Law of original horizontality
The big bang theory of cosmology
Longitude
35. Not all runoff flows into rivers; much of it infiltrates into the ground through...
Surface temperature
Latitude
Time zone
percolation
36. Younger beds were originally deposited above older beds
Differential heating
Evaporation
Gravity and inertia
Law of superposition
37. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Eclipses
Weight and mass
Law of superposition
Minerals
38. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Climate
Daylight saving time zones
Chemical weathering
Coral reef
39. A natural flow of water - usually freshwater - traveling toward an ocean - a lake - or another stream
Tidal range
Types of galaxies
River
Limestone
40. 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
Strata
Surface temperature
Uniformitarianism
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
41. Almost all familiar weather phenomena occur in the __________ (the lower part of the atmosphere)
clouds
Lunar eclipse
Troposhere
Geology
42. Faulting and folding
Sedimentation
Tides
Styles of rock deformation
Intrusive
43. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
Mantle plumes
5.6
Chaotic system
Mineral color
44. The movement (carrying away or displacement) of solids (sediment - soil - rock - and other particles) - usually by the agents of currents such as wind - water - or ice by downward or down - slope movement in response to gravity
Erosion
Subsurface flow
snow
The most abundant minerals in the crust
45. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
The big bang theory of cosmology
larger planet
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Pacific Ring of Fire
46. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
Standard time zones
Convergent tectonic plates
snow
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
47. 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
Seasons
Distance
Hydrologic cycle
Time zone
48. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Venus
Semidiurnal
Mineral color
Cirrus clouds
49. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
Runoff
Distance
Rocky planets and moons
Types of galaxies
50. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
Earth
River
lower elevation
The most abundant minerals in the crust