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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Metamorphic rocks
Lunar eclipse
Sedimentary rocks
2. Somewhat cooler disturbances in the photosphere
Sunspots
Moon
Law of superposition
Sublimation
3. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Colder
Groundwater
Law of original horizontality
Pacific Ring of Fire
4. 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
snow
Latitude
Ice Age
moisture
5. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Cirrus clouds
Lithosphere
Strata
Clastic
6. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Tectonic plates
Climate
Snow packs
Transpiration
7. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Long - period comets
snow
Opposite seasons
8. This upslope wind is called a...
Valley breeze
Maritime air
Solar System
Extrusive
9. Traces of ancient life preserved in the strata as shells - footprints - and the like - Soft plant and animal tissues decompose quickly in the presence of decay bacteria - which exist wherever oxygen exists
Divergent plate movements
Limestone
Groundwater
Fossils
10. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
World/global ocean
Convergent tectonic plates
Winter solstice
Coral reef
11. 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
Long - period comets
Sublimation
Transpiration
Air mass
12. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
Tectonic plates
Density
Continental air
California coast
13. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
Speed of light
Weight and mass
Crustal rocks
Galaxies
14. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
clouds
Standard time zones
Solar System
Opposite seasons
15. Form when dissolved mineral solutions crystalize out of lakes and oceans
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Soil
Weather phenomena on earth
Stratus clouds
16. Zero degrees latitude - generally has a tropical climate (warm and wet); at the extreme northern and southern latitudes (polar regions) - the climate is very cold and dry
aquifers
The equator
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Differential heating
17. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
Erosion and land use
clouds
Nuclear fusion
Continental air
18. 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
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Sunspots
Seasons
Lunar eclipse
19. Formed by sodium chloride
Subsurface flow
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Rock salt
Minerals
20. 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
Major oceans
Runoff
The geological time scale
Winter solstice
21. Texture is important in classifying ______ sedimentary rocks
World/global ocean
Long linear arcs
Maritime air
Clastic
22. Rocks are placed into groups according to how they form...
Limestone
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Rocky planets and moons
Meteorology
23. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Precipitation
Inertia
Cleavage
Nuclear fusion
24. 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
El Nino
Tropical air
Hydrologic concepts
Andromeda galaxy
25. Faulting and folding
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Meteorology
Hydrologic concepts
Styles of rock deformation
26. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
Smaller regions of the oceans
Solar eclipse
Time zone
larger planet
27. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
- cT
Surface temperature
The equator
Law of superposition
28. The runoff produced by melting snow
percolation
Subsurface flow
Snowmelt
Solar wind
29. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Moon
Semidiurnal
freshwater
Galaxies
30. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
Sedimentation
- mP
Snow packs
lower elevation
31. Occur when two plates pull away from each other - Such faults are generally weak and shallow Example: the Mid - Atlantic Range in the Atlantic Ocean
Divergent plate movements
Diurnal
Convergent plate movements
River
32. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity
Crustal rocks
Scratch test
groundwater discharge
Long linear arcs
33. Maritime tropical (wet - warm air)
Extrusive
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
- mT
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
34. The rising of the earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the moon and the sun acting on the oceans
46%
Full moon
Tides
29.5
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36. Continental polar (dry - cold air)
- cP
Climate
Geology
Conglomerates
37. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
Lunar eclipse
lower elevation
freshwater springs
El Nino
38. Due to a combination of differential heating and geometry - hen the sun rises - it is the tops of the mountain peaks which receive first light - and as the day progresses - the mountain slopes take on a greater heat load than the valleys - This resul
15
Tidal range
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Snow packs
39. Some precipitation falls as ____ and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers - which can store water for thousands of years
snow
Valley breeze
jet stream
Minerals
40. 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
Limestone
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Stratus clouds
Chemical weathering
41. Earth movements - The result of forces within the earth - where temperature and pressure differences lead to instability
Examples to support Continental drift theory
The most abundant minerals in the crust
The rock cycle
Crustal rocks
42. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Percolation
Cumulonibus clouds
Metamorphic rocks
43. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
Mantle plumes
Nuclear fusion
Cleavage
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
44. 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 rock cycle
Latitude
Sublimation
Planets
45. Different visual appearance; when discovered - comets show a perceptible coma while asteroids do not
Transpiration
Rainfall
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Axis tilt
46. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Sublimation
Long - period comets
Asteroids
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
47. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the...
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48. 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
Rock salt
Ways magma can form
larger planet
49. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
Plate tectonics
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Limestone
Solar radiation
50. 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
Estuary
Crust
Divergent plate movements
Nuclear fusion