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1. Texture is important in classifying ______ sedimentary rocks
Clastic
Intrusive
Transpiration
Mohs' scale of hardness
2. Rocks are placed into groups according to how they form...
Mantle
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Semidiurnal
3/4
3. An area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions associated with the plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean - In a 40000 km horseshoe shape - associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches - volcanic arcs - and volcanic
Pacific Ring of Fire
Orogenic zones
Ice Age
Transform plate movements
4. 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
Moon
Latitude
Scratch test
Tropical air
5. 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
Crust
Chemical weathering
Andromeda galaxy
precipitation
6. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
Transform plate movements
Solar eclipse
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Solar radiation
7. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Weathering
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
groundwater discharge
Earth's crust
8. 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
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Tectonic plates
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Crust
9. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
Galaxies
Small islands
Tides
Mantle plumes
10. 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
Chemical weathering
cooling
Extrusive
Uniformitarianism
11. Precipitation - Canopy interception - Snowmelt - Runoff - Percolation - Subsurface flow- Evaporation - Sublimation - Condensation
Why weather occurs
Troposhere
Mantle
Hydrologic concepts
12. Cause pressure differences - A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands - lowering the air pressure and its density
Surface temperature differences
Colder
Law of superposition
Crust
13. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
Asteroids
Tectonic plates
The Gulf - Stream
Limestone
14. Loose collections of ice - dust - and small rocky particles - measuring a few kilometers or tens of kilometers across
Snow packs
Comet nuclei
Soil
Short - period comets
15. The flow of water underground - in the vadose zone and aquifers - Subsurface water may return to the surface (as a spring or by being pumped) or eventually seep into the oceans
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Intrusive
Subsurface flow
Styles of rock deformation
16. How much matter is in the object
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Petroleum exploration
Density
Soil
17. Mountains blocking the path of precipitation to the desert
Semidiurnal
Why weather occurs
Diurnal
Rain shadow
18. 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
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Density
Inertia
Types of galaxies
19. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
Weight and mass
Orogenic zones
jet stream
Sun
20. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
Intrusive
- cP
larger planet
Extrusive
21. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Styles of rock deformation
50-100
Gravity and inertia
Inertia
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.
Short - period comets
Plate tectonics
Scratch test
Daylight saving time zones
23. Forms south of the Arctic and is cold
Evapotranspiration
Polar air
- mT
lower
24. Believed to originate at a much greater distance from the Sun - in a cloud (the Oort cloud) consisting of debris left over from the condensation of solar nebula - Comets are thrown from the outer planets or nearby stars - or as a result of collisions
Equinoxes
Long - period comets
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Cirrus clouds
25. Pulls the planets toward the sun - while their inertia keeps them moving forward in an elliptical orbit around the sun
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26. 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
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Geology
Mid - oceanic ridge
27. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
Transpiration
Cleavage
Comet
Rainfall
28. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
Earth's crust
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Altostratus clouds
Time zone
29. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Maritime air
Limestone
Groundwater
Surface temperature
30. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
- cT
Nuclear fusion
California coast
Long linear arcs
31. Igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface - Examples obsidian - basalt - and pumice
Gravity and inertia
3/4
Extrusive
Mountain
32. 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
Valley breeze
lower
Venus
33. 186000 miles/second
Continental air
Cirrus clouds
29.5
Speed of light
34. Can influence climate by sending tremendous volumes of dust - ash - and smoke into the atmosphere
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Limestone
Winter solstice
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
35. A semi - closed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it - and with a free connection to the open sea - Often associated with high levels of biological diversity - They are made up of brackish water - Often given names
Estuary
Pacific Ring of Fire
Surface ocean temperature
Minerals
36. 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
Lithosphere
Planets
Full moon
Scratch test
37. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Sedimentation
Solar radiation
Block mountains or fold mountains
Sublimation
38. 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
Winter solstice
Why weather occurs
Photosphere
Types of galaxies
39. Takes approx. seven and a half earth months to revolve around the sun - Takes approx. eight earth months to rotate on its axis - a day on ________ is longer than a year
Venus
percolation
groundwater discharge
Galactic center
40. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle
Hydrologic cycle
Erosion
Rock salt
29.5
41. 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
The Gulf - Stream
freshwater springs
Planets
- cP
42. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
11
Intrusive
Condensation
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
43. The fossiliferous strata record is only the last __% of the earth's history
freshwater
11
Transpiration
Hydrologic cycle
44. Earth movements - The result of forces within the earth - where temperature and pressure differences lead to instability
Geology
Convergent plate movements
Crustal rocks
precipitation
45. Cirrus - Stratus - Cumulonimbus - Altostratus
Mantle plumes
Weather phenomena on earth
Types of clouds
Weight and mass
46. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Weight and mass
Law of original horizontality
46%
Surface ocean temperature
47. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Mantle
Spring tide
larger planet
Short - period comets
48. 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
New moon
Troposhere
Major oceans
Examples to support Continental drift theory
49. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
Rocky planets and moons
Smaller regions of the oceans
The big bang theory of cosmology
Photosphere
50. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Full moon
Transpiration
Minerals
Time zone
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