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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Long - period comets
lower
Block mountains or fold mountains
Weathering
2. 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...
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Opposite seasons
Estuary
Condensation
3. A natural flow of water - usually freshwater - traveling toward an ocean - a lake - or another stream
Hydrologic concepts
River
Semidiurnal or diurnal
precipitation
4. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Comet nuclei
Comet
Subduction zones
Groundwater
5. (in descending order of size) the Pacific Ocean - the Atlantic Ocean - the Indian Ocean - the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean
lower
- cP
Major oceans
Snowmelt
6. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
Condensation
Sublimation
snow
Short - period comets
7. Officially defined as sustained sea surface temperature anomalies of magnitude greater than 0.5
El Nino and La Nina
Troposhere
Cirrus clouds
Groundwater
8. 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
46%
cooling
Continental drift
Major oceans
9. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
River
- mP
Snow packs
Full moon
10. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
Tectonic plates
Deserts
10000
Coral reef
11. Some precipitation falls as ____ and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers - which can store water for thousands of years
Rock salt
Minerals
Cleavage
snow
12. Weather occurs primarily due to density (temperature and moisture) differences between one location and another - These differences can occur due to the angle of the sun at any particular spot - which varies by latitude from the tropics
Why weather occurs
California coast
Clastic
Solar System
13. Texture is important in classifying ______ sedimentary rocks
Semidiurnal
- mP
Clastic
Condensation
14. Occur when two plates push together - Such faults are strong and relatively deep - Where the strongest earthquakes occur Example: mountain building in the Himalayas and the Andes
California coast
Convergent plate movements
Clastic
Condensation
15. 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
Speed of light
Limestone
- cT
precipitation
16. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity
Long linear arcs
Neap tide/neaps
Coral reef
Sublimation
17. Comprised of the crust and the rigid uppermost part of the mantle - broken up into tectonic plates (7 major and many minor) - ride on the asthenosphere
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Earth
Lithosphere
Sun
18. Different visual appearance; when discovered - comets show a perceptible coma while asteroids do not
Spring tide
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Hydrologic cycle
Rainfall
19. Method of using the present to interpret the past - Processes occurring today are observed carefully and their effects are measured - Then - geologists assume that similar effects in ancient rocks were caused by processes similar to those of the pres
Estuary
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Uniformitarianism
Examples to support Continental drift theory
20. 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
Clastic
Percolation
Erosion and land use
Moon
21. 4 terrestrials: Mercury - Venus - Mars - Earth 4 gas giants: Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune At least 5 dwarf planets: Ceres - Pluto - Makemake - Haumea - Eris
Equinoxes
Solar System
Seasons
Geology
22. 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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lower elevation
Stars
23. 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
Divergent plate movements
Mantle
La Nina
24. Natural chemical compounds that are the crystals that make up rocks - Each has a specific composition or narrow range of composition
Lunar eclipse
aquifers
Minerals
Smaller regions of the oceans
25. Tides may be...
Minerals
Colder
Tides
Semidiurnal or diurnal
26. Faulting and folding
Surface temperature
Sunspots
Styles of rock deformation
Law of original horizontality
27. 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)
Spring tide
jet stream
precipitation
cooling
28. 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
Mountain
Colder
Scratch test
The distinction between asteroids and comets
29. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
Galaxies
Standard time zones
Subsurface flow
Tropical air
30. Divided into two main types: large - low- density gas giants and smaller - rocky terrestrials - There are at least 341 identified _______ - 8 of which are in the Solar System
Geology
Planets
Weather phenomena on earth
El Nino and La Nina
31. Largest zone of the planet (68%); crystalline silicates - rich in magnesium - calcium - and iron; very hot and mainly solid - but local melting to magma is the source of volcanic eruptions
Mantle
Parallax
Valley breeze
Hydrologic cycle
32. How much matter is in the object
Solar radiation
Precipitation
Density
Chemical sedimentary rocks
33. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Altostratus clouds
Tectonic plates
Venus
34. Sedimentary rocks containing large fragments of other rock material - e.g. Sandstone
Neap tide/neaps
- cT
Axis tilt
Conglomerates
35. 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
Lunar eclipse
Divergent plate movements
Snow packs
36. 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
The equator
The Gulf - Stream
Lunar eclipse
Precipitation
37. 186000 miles/second
Semidiurnal
Major oceans
Galactic center
Speed of light
38. 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
Standard time zones
Hydrologic cycle
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
El Nino
39. The science of the atmosphere and weather
Crust
Surface ocean temperature
lower elevation
Meteorology
40. 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)
Maritime air
Canopy interception
Erosion
Time zone
41. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
Tidal range
Nuclear fusion
Chemical weathering
clouds
42. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
Spring tide
Comet
Tidal range
The most abundant minerals in the crust
43. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
Tectonic plates
Neap tide/neaps
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
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44. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Geology
Mantle plumes
The rock cycle
Precipitation
45. 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
Weathering
freshwater
Speed of light
Earth
46. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
Hydrologic concepts
Snowmelt
- mP
freshwater
47. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Convergent plate movements
Types of clouds
Semidiurnal
Rocky planets and moons
48. Loose collections of ice - dust - and small rocky particles - measuring a few kilometers or tens of kilometers across
Law of original horizontality
Comet nuclei
Evaporation
Mountain
49. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the Solar System - especially on...
Rocky planets and moons
Transform plate movements
Sedimentation
Climate
50. Large - dark clouds that indicate thunderstorms
The equator
El Nino and La Nina
Cumulonibus clouds
Block mountains or fold mountains