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1. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Weather phenomena on earth
Galaxies
Gravity and inertia
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
2. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
Latitude
freshwater
Inertia
Surface temperature
3. 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
Full moon
California coast
Surface ocean currents
Runoff
4. Occurs when the moon sets at sunset - Then the moon is between the earth and the sun - so we see only the dark half of the moon
Weathering
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Small islands
New moon
5. Different visual appearance; when discovered - comets show a perceptible coma while asteroids do not
Soil
jet stream
Asteroids
The distinction between asteroids and comets
6. 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
Subsurface flow
snow
7. Temperature - pressure - and composition
Erosion and land use
Lithosphere
Ways magma can form
Longitude
8. 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
Strata
Subsurface flow
Comet nuclei
cooling
9. 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
Coral reef
Sun
Ice Age
Planets
10. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Weathering
Surface ocean currents
Types of galaxies
11. 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
Semidiurnal or diurnal
New moon
Hydrologic cycle
Ways magma can form
12. How much matter is in the object
Andromeda galaxy
Density
Maritime air
clouds
13. 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
Surface ocean currents
Crust
Mantle plumes
14. Sedimentary rocks containing large fragments of other rock material - e.g. Sandstone
Colder
lower
15
Conglomerates
15. 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
Solar radiation
Sedimentary rocks
Types of galaxies
Stars
16. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
Altostratus clouds
Geology
Transform plate movements
Tectonic plates
17. One tidal cycle per day
The Gulf - Stream
Earth
Comet
Diurnal
18. Less than 1% of the earth; this relatively thin zone (5 to 25 miles) contains the only rocks we can study - even in the deepest mines or drill holes
Time zone
Crust
The most abundant minerals in the crust
El Nino and La Nina
19. The precipitation that is intercepted by plant foliage and eventually evaporates back to the atmosphere rather than falling to the ground
Surface ocean currents
Canopy interception
Geology
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
20. A major determiner of coastal climate
50-100
Surface ocean temperature
Igneous rocks
jet stream
21. Formed from calcium carbonate - also an example of chemical sedimentary rocks - like roock salt - can contain organic or once - living matter and can record the history of that matter's formation in features such as strata - fossil evidence - and rip
Snow packs
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Limestone
- mP
22. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
Mechanical/physical weathering
Latitude
Strata
Percolation
23. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
Surface ocean currents
Mantle plumes
Seasons
Comet
24. Somewhat cooler disturbances in the photosphere
Sunspots
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
lower elevation
Mohs' scale of hardness
25. 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
Mantle plumes
Equinoxes
Subduction zones
Troposhere
26. 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
The Gulf - Stream
Orogenic zones
Winter solstice
The distinction between asteroids and comets
27. Texture is important in classifying ______ sedimentary rocks
Clastic
Solar System
Maritime air
Erosion and land use
28. Common: wind - clouds - rain - snow - fog - dust storms - Less common: natural disasters such as tornadoes - hurricanes - and ice storms
5.6
Rocky planets and moons
Rain shadow
Weather phenomena on earth
29. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
freshwater springs
Metamorphic rocks
Andromeda galaxy
Types of galaxies
30. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Stratus clouds
Rainfall
Venus
31. Typically the tidal mouths of rivers and are often characterized by _____________ or silt carried in from terrestrial runoff - frequently from offshore
Sedimentation
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Differential heating
clouds
32. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Law of original horizontality
Seasons
Comet nuclei
Semidiurnal
33. 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
Orogenic zones
Seasons
Mantle
Equinoxes
34. 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
Subsurface flow
Tides
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Colder
35. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes ________ - which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time
Crust
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
aquifers
Transform plate movements
36. Nearest galaxy - about 20 million light - years away
Andromeda galaxy
Latitude
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Eclipses
37. 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
Distance
Crust
Subsurface flow
Chaotic system
38. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
Orogenic zones
- mP
Latitude
The earth's structure
39. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
Erosion and land use
Galaxies
Tropical air
Types of galaxies
40. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Rain shadow
Maritime air
Snowmelt
El Nino
41. Most sediments were deposited in beds that were originally horizontal - and any tilting is due to later earth movements
Why weather occurs
Stratus clouds
Long - period comets
Law of original horizontality
42. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Lithosphere
El Nino
Opposite seasons
Rain shadow
43. Occur along plate boundaries
10000
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Semidiurnal
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
44. The center of the sun may have a temperature of millions of degrees; the visible surface - the ______ - is about 6000
El Nino and La Nina
Photosphere
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Volcano
45. Tides may be...
Types of galaxies
Smaller regions of the oceans
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Law of original horizontality
46. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
lower elevation
Sedimentation
Planets
The geological time scale
47. Almost all familiar weather phenomena occur in the __________ (the lower part of the atmosphere)
Rock salt
Weathering
Troposhere
Mountain
48. The sun and oceans can also affect the weather of land - If the sun heats ocean waters for a period of time - water can evaporate - Once evaporated into the air - the moisture can spread over nearby land - thus making it cooler
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49. 186000 miles/second
Short - period comets
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Parallax
Speed of light
50. 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
El Nino and La Nina
Geology
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
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