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CSET Earth
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1. Common: wind - clouds - rain - snow - fog - dust storms - Less common: natural disasters such as tornadoes - hurricanes - and ice storms
Surface temperature
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Weather phenomena on earth
Daylight saving time zones
2. 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
Styles of rock deformation
Semidiurnal
Moon
Coral reef
3. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Solar eclipse
Intrusive
Surface ocean temperature
4. Sometimes called minor planets or planetoids - Bodies
Divergent plate movements
Law of original horizontality
Air mass
Asteroids
5. Natural chemical compounds that are the crystals that make up rocks - Each has a specific composition or narrow range of composition
Minerals
Crust
Differential heating
Ways magma can form
6. Pulls the planets toward the sun - while their inertia keeps them moving forward in an elliptical orbit around the sun
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7. 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
Long linear arcs
clouds
Full moon
Surface ocean temperature
8. 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
Climate
Mantle plumes
Tides
El Nino
9. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the Solar System - especially on...
Rocky planets and moons
Solar System
The Gulf - Stream
Mantle plumes
10. Faulting and folding
Styles of rock deformation
Rock salt
Earth
Rocky planets and moons
11. Deviates by an angle of approximately 23.5 degrees - Thus - at any given time during summer or winter - one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the sun - This exposure alternates as the earth revolves in its orbit
Axis tilt
Sun's gravity
Ways magma can form
Parallax
12. 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
- mT
Winter solstice
lower elevation
Deserts
13. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
Igneous rocks
Standard time zones
Air mass
Scratch test
14. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Groundwater
Subduction zones
Cirrus clouds
groundwater discharge
15. Travels in an orbit that is slightly elliptical (oval) - and so the distance from the sun ranges from 91.5 to 94.5 million miles - Its daily rotation deforms the earth to a flattened spheroid - with a polar radius slightly less than the equatorial ra
Semidiurnal
Earth
Climate
Coral reef
16. 4 terrestrials: Mercury - Venus - Mars - Earth 4 gas giants: Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune At least 5 dwarf planets: Ceres - Pluto - Makemake - Haumea - Eris
Solar System
Inertia
Metamorphic rocks
Long linear arcs
17. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
Tidal range
California coast
Crustal rocks
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
18. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Runoff
Block mountains or fold mountains
Galactic center
Weight and mass
19. 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
precipitation
Inertia
Evapotranspiration
Andromeda galaxy
20. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
The big bang theory of cosmology
Small islands
Galaxies
Nuclear fusion
21. A ______________ - such as the Mid - Atlantic Ridge - has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Inertia
Mid - oceanic ridge
Cleavage
22. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
Condensation
Canopy interception
Diurnal
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
23. 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
Long - period comets
Tropical air
The most abundant minerals in the crust
The geological time scale
24. 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
Long - period comets
Major oceans
Strata
Runoff
25. Form when magma or lava cools and solidifies - Depending on the rate of cooling - can contain visible crystals - while others can appear glassy
Sublimation
groundwater discharge
Igneous rocks
Time zone
26. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
larger planet
Erosion
Uniformitarianism
snow
27. Classified as warm - water or cold - water currents
Surface ocean currents
Comet
lower elevation
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
28. Nearest galaxy - about 20 million light - years away
Andromeda galaxy
Hydrologic concepts
Eclipses
Winter solstice
29. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Seasons
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5.6
Galactic center
30. 186000 miles/second
Speed of light
Law of superposition
Chemical weathering
larger planet
31. 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
Subduction zones
Convergent tectonic plates
Asteroids
Mountain
32. 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
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Lunar eclipse
Hydrologic cycle
Mountain
33. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Rainfall
Crustal rocks
Sublimation
Mantle plumes
34. Mountains blocking the path of precipitation to the desert
Block mountains or fold mountains
Rain shadow
Standard time zones
Air mass
35. 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
Metamorphic rocks
Igneous rocks
Types of galaxies
Law of superposition
36. 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
Petroleum exploration
Time zone
Sedimentation
Sedimentary rocks
37. 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
World/global ocean
Inertia
Weather phenomena on earth
Examples to support Continental drift theory
38. The science of the atmosphere and weather
Time zone
Petroleum exploration
29.5
Meteorology
39. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Smaller regions of the oceans
Longitude
freshwater springs
40. (in descending order of size) the Pacific Ocean - the Atlantic Ocean - the Indian Ocean - the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean
Sublimation
Venus
Major oceans
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
41. Tides may be...
Erosion
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Intrusive
Semidiurnal or diurnal
42. Rocks are placed into groups according to how they form...
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Inertia
Short - period comets
43. 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
Deserts
Solar wind
Equinoxes
Convergent tectonic plates
44. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Daylight saving time zones
Earth's crust
Limestone
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45. 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...
Sun's gravity
Soil
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Photosphere
46. A warm - water current that carries warm water from the Tropics to the Arctic regions of the North Atlantic Ocean - This accounts for higher temperatures and higher humidity on the Eastern Seaboard during the summer
Precipitation
Latitude
Smaller regions of the oceans
The Gulf - Stream
47. 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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48. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
lower elevation
Standard time zones
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Cleavage
49. 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
Distance
Sedimentary rocks
Andromeda galaxy
Meteorology
50. The atmosphere is a __________ - and so small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole - This makes it difficult to accurately predict weather more than a few days in advance
La Nina
Law of superposition
Chaotic system
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions