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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity
Major oceans
Long linear arcs
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Sedimentary rocks
2. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
Types of galaxies
10000
46%
Speed of light
3. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
Gravity and inertia
Law of original horizontality
Full moon
The rock cycle
4. The result of the buildup of once - living things
Sun's gravity
Coral reef
Comet nuclei
lower elevation
5. - 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
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Soil
lower
Earth
6. Two feldspars (orthoclase and plagioclase) - quartz - olivine - and augite - These five minerals are silicates - built from interlocking silicon and oxygen atoms
Hydrologic concepts
Chaotic system
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Divergent plate movements
7. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
Mechanical/physical weathering
Small islands
Snow packs
Rocky planets and moons
8. 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
Seasons
Differential heating
The big bang theory of cosmology
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9. Igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface - Examples obsidian - basalt - and pumice
jet stream
Diurnal
Extrusive
Climate
10. Rocks are placed into groups according to how they form...
California coast
Hydrologic concepts
The geological time scale
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
11. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Weight and mass
River
Maritime air
Semidiurnal or diurnal
12. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Scratch test
- cP
Semidiurnal
Sublimation
13. Runoff and groundwater are stored as ________ in lakes
snow
Examples to support Continental drift theory
freshwater
Solar eclipse
14. The motive force behind land breezes and sea/lake breezes - also known as on - or off - shore winds - Land absorbs and radiates heat faster than water - but water releases heat over a longer period of time
Parallax
Colder
Rock salt
Differential heating
15. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Winter solstice
Plate tectonics
Snowmelt
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
16. 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
Clastic
Winter solstice
Troposhere
Maritime air
17. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
Crustal rocks
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Hydrologic concepts
Condensation
18. 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
Rain shadow
Latitude
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Ways magma can form
19. Forms south of the Arctic and is cold
Mineral color
Estuary
Polar air
Mohs' scale of hardness
20. The degrees north or south of the equator
Stars
Latitude
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
aquifers
21. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
World/global ocean
California coast
Mineral color
Law of superposition
22. 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
Galactic center
5.6
Sun
Standard time zones
23. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
Hydrologic concepts
Rocky planets and moons
Evaporation
Mantle plumes
24. Large - scale movements of the earth's lithosphere - - The theory encompasses the older concepts of continental drift (first half of 20th century) and seafloor spreading (1960s)
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Mineral color
Venus
Plate tectonics
25. 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
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
The Gulf - Stream
Nuclear fusion
26. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
freshwater springs
Convergent plate movements
Weight and mass
Transform plate movements
27. Occur along plate boundaries
Andromeda galaxy
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Venus
Types of clouds
28. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
Continental drift
- cP
El Nino
Earth
29. Not all runoff flows into rivers; much of it infiltrates into the ground through...
Hydrologic cycle
percolation
Asteroids
precipitation
30. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Groundwater
Nuclear fusion
29.5
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
31. The resulting dust layer would act as a shield - blocking out much of the sun's rays - This would result in lower global temperatures and a general _____ of the earth
cooling
Sedimentary rocks
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Solar System
32. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the...
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33. Faulting and folding
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Rocky planets and moons
Styles of rock deformation
California coast
34. 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
Comet nuclei
Axis tilt
Cleavage
Pacific Ring of Fire
35. Center: 3000
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36. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Parallax
Sun's gravity
Crustal rocks
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37. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
Rock salt
Solar System
lower elevation
Evapotranspiration
38. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the Solar System - especially on...
Weathering
Rocky planets and moons
Continental air
Evaporation
39. The outermost part of the earth's interior is made up of two layers...
Soil
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Evaporation
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
40. 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
Equinoxes
Sedimentary rocks
Lithosphere
Seasons
41. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
Mantle plumes
aquifers
Surface ocean temperature
Tidal range
42. 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
freshwater springs
Winter solstice
Mechanical/physical weathering
43. Around a new or full moon - when the sun - moon - and the earth form a line - the tidal forces due to the sun reinforce those of the moon - The tide's range is at a maximum and is called a spring tide (spring as in 'to jump/leap -' not the season)
Cumulonibus clouds
Speed of light
Extrusive
Spring tide
44. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
New moon
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Evaporation
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
45. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Daylight saving time zones
Speed of light
Surface temperature differences
Coral reef
46. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Fossils
Transpiration
Time zone
Snowmelt
47. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Block mountains or fold mountains
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Fossils
Types of clouds
48. Sometimes called minor planets or planetoids - Bodies
Rocky planets and moons
Standard time zones
Asteroids
Erosion and land use
49. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
clouds
Altostratus clouds
Convergent tectonic plates
Ice Age
50. The tidal force produced by the sun is ____ as large as that produced by the moon
Air mass
Galactic center
Differential heating
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