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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Cause pressure differences - A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands - lowering the air pressure and its density
Density
Equinoxes
Surface temperature differences
Why weather occurs
2. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes ________ - which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time
Mechanical/physical weathering
River
aquifers
15
3. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Lithosphere
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Uniformitarianism
Longitude
4. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
Tides
- mP
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Standard time zones
5. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
Volcano
California coast
Canopy interception
Tectonic plates
6. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
La Nina
aquifers
Cirrus clouds
Ice Age
7. Pulls the planets toward the sun - while their inertia keeps them moving forward in an elliptical orbit around the sun
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8. The earth is believed to be about ___ billion years old
Small islands
Long linear arcs
5.6
Cirrus clouds
9. The degrees north or south of the equator
46%
Latitude
Why weather occurs
Examples to support Continental drift theory
10. Occur along plate boundaries
Semidiurnal
Smaller regions of the oceans
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Geology
11. Some precipitation falls as ____ and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers - which can store water for thousands of years
Galaxies
Strata
snow
Cirrus clouds
12. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the...
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13. 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
Diurnal
Axis tilt
Crustal rocks
The most abundant minerals in the crust
14. Distance to closest stars can be calculated by measuring the _________ - a slight shift in apparent position against the background of more distant stars as the earth travels around the sun
Lithosphere
Altostratus clouds
Surface temperature differences
Parallax
15. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Subduction zones
Maritime air
50-100
Mineral color
16. Earth movements - The result of forces within the earth - where temperature and pressure differences lead to instability
Venus
Crustal rocks
Convergent tectonic plates
Daylight saving time zones
17. 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
46%
Polar air
Igneous rocks
Mantle
18. Takes place when the moon passes between the earth and the sun - with the moon blocking the sunlight for about two minutes - A total ___________ may be seen only from a small zone on the earth
Small islands
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Solar eclipse
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
19. Tides may be...
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Erosion and land use
10000
snow
20. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Stratus clouds
Block mountains or fold mountains
Chemical sedimentary rocks
- mP
21. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
Sunspots
Smaller regions of the oceans
Nuclear fusion
Continental air
22. 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
Climate
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Sedimentary rocks
Clastic
23. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the ________
Tides
Maritime air
Solar System
jet stream
24. The outermost part of the earth's interior is made up of two layers...
Coral reef
Erosion
Photosphere
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
25. Refers to the long - term weather patterns of a large geographical area and takes into account temperature - humidity - and precipitation
Climate
Comet
Erosion
Earth
26. 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
Solar eclipse
Convergent plate movements
Climate
Volcano
27. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Weathering
Rainfall
3/4
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
28. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Evapotranspiration
Gravity and inertia
Cleavage
5.6
29. (in descending order of size) the Pacific Ocean - the Atlantic Ocean - the Indian Ocean - the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean
Comet nuclei
Major oceans
moisture
29.5
30. 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...
Coral reef
The earth's structure
Planets
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
31. Used to arrange strata in a standard order - Used to measure the amount of radioactive decay in minerals and calculate the time at which the rock formed
Diurnal
lower
The Gulf - Stream
The geological time scale
32. 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
Canopy interception
Cumulonibus clouds
Subsurface flow
Parallax
33. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Rocky planets and moons
Cleavage
Speed of light
Earth
34. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
Clastic
Galaxies
Gravity and inertia
Tidal range
35. An opening - or rupture - in a planet's surface or crust - which allows hot molten rock - ash - and gases to escape from below the surface - Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains or features like mountains over a p
Precipitation
Volcano
Cumulonibus clouds
5.6
36. Bodies similar to the sun but immensely distant - Closest stars are 4 light - years away
New moon
The geological time scale
The earth's structure
Stars
37. 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
Climate
Estuary
Winter solstice
Inertia
38. A continuous drill would find gas - oil - and water in that order - The three substances occur in their order of density - with the lightest substance on top and the heaviest on the bottom
The Gulf - Stream
Runoff
Nuclear fusion
Petroleum exploration
39. Runoff and groundwater are stored as ________ in lakes
Latitude
3/4
freshwater
The most abundant minerals in the crust
40. This scale assigns a fixed number to 10 reference materials. Talc (1) is the softest and diamond (10) is the hardest
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41. 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
Sublimation
Short - period comets
Moon
lower
42. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
Earth's crust
Long linear arcs
Surface temperature
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
43. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
moisture
Evaporation
Orogenic zones
Weight and mass
44. How much matter is in the object
Density
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Surface ocean temperature
La Nina
45. 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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46. 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
Latitude
Stratus clouds
Erosion and land use
Differential heating
47. The runoff produced by melting snow
Snowmelt
The earth's structure
Mid - oceanic ridge
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
48. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
Sun
Small islands
Andromeda galaxy
Mantle plumes
49. 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
Clastic
moisture
Precipitation
- mT
50. The cold - water current that flows north to south off the _____________ keeps the West Coast fairly cool during the summer - Cold - water currents create cooler temperatures in areas that would otherwise be much warmer
Equinoxes
Semidiurnal or diurnal
California coast
Hydrologic cycle