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1. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels
Strata
Moon
Air mass
Snow packs
2. 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)
Coral reef
Axis tilt
Tidal range
Plate tectonics
3. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
clouds
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Erosion and land use
Cirrus clouds
4. Volcanoes are generally found where ________ are diverging or converging
10000
Opposite seasons
Tectonic plates
Andromeda galaxy
5. A natural flow of water - usually freshwater - traveling toward an ocean - a lake - or another stream
Distance
Surface temperature
River
Standard time zones
6. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Continental air
Comet nuclei
Ways magma can form
Galactic center
7. 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
New moon
Cleavage
Winter solstice
Deserts
8. Precipitation - Canopy interception - Snowmelt - Runoff - Percolation - Subsurface flow- Evaporation - Sublimation - Condensation
Hydrologic concepts
Full moon
Polar air
Semidiurnal
9. Sometimes called minor planets or planetoids - Bodies
Surface temperature
Condensation
Solar radiation
Asteroids
10. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault
Latitude
Transform plate movements
Condensation
Types of clouds
11. 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
La Nina
Volcano
Subsurface flow
12. A small Solar System body that orbits the Sun - When close enough to the sun - exhibits a visible coma (atmosphere) or a tail - both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus - Have a variety of different orbital periods
Comet
Troposhere
Earth's crust
Law of original horizontality
13. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
Diurnal
Surface temperature
Lithosphere
Crustal rocks
14. Water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil
Evapotranspiration
Block mountains or fold mountains
Estuary
Crust
15. 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
Volcano
Galactic center
15
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
16. 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...
Igneous rocks
Solar wind
Air mass
Evaporation
17. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Tectonic plates
lower
Differential heating
Cleavage
18. 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
Crustal rocks
River
- mP
The geological time scale
19. 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
Tidal range
Divergent plate movements
Chemical weathering
Subsurface flow
20. Faulting and folding
Rain shadow
Surface ocean temperature
Styles of rock deformation
Igneous rocks
21. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Transpiration
Mid - oceanic ridge
Longitude
Tropical air
22. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
Speed of light
Sedimentary rocks
Geology
Distance
23. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
Density
Stratus clouds
Mantle plumes
World/global ocean
24. Occur along plate boundaries
Snow packs
Climate
Law of original horizontality
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
25. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
Minerals
Continental air
Mantle
The rock cycle
26. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
Plate tectonics
50-100
Latitude
Divergent plate movements
27. The rising of the earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the moon and the sun acting on the oceans
Snow packs
Styles of rock deformation
Transform plate movements
Tides
28. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through atmospheric chemicals or biologically produced chemicals (also known as biological weathering)
The geological time scale
Chemical weathering
Styles of rock deformation
Precipitation
29. Large - dark clouds that indicate thunderstorms
Cumulonibus clouds
freshwater springs
Surface temperature differences
Surface ocean temperature
30. Occur twice a year - when the tilt of the earth's axis is oriented neither from nor to the sun - causing the sun to be located vertically above a point on the equator - The name derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night) - because at the e
New moon
Soil
Equinoxes
Latitude
31. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Ways magma can form
lower elevation
Weathering
32. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
Air mass
Styles of rock deformation
Orogenic zones
Pacific Ring of Fire
33. 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
Deserts
Minerals
Solar eclipse
Solar System
34. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
Venus
Groundwater
Smaller regions of the oceans
Condensation
35. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Daylight saving time zones
Tectonic plates
Inertia
Precipitation
36. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Parallax
Gravity and inertia
Condensation
Weathering
37. Seasons are marked by changes in the amount of sunlight - which in turn often cause cycles of dormancy in plants and hibernation in animals - These effects vary with latitude and with proximity to bodies of water
larger planet
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Distance
The equator
38. 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
50-100
Sun
Comet
New moon
39. 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 plumes
Venus
Mantle
Cirrus clouds
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
Diurnal
Limestone
Sun's gravity
Petroleum exploration
41. 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
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Chemical weathering
Erosion and land use
42. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
Small islands
Extrusive
Uniformitarianism
Solar eclipse
43. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Solar eclipse
Cirrus clouds
Mineral color
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
44. Maritime tropical (wet - warm air)
Scratch test
Gravity and inertia
- mT
Semidiurnal
45. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
Continental drift
Plate tectonics
- cP
Meteorology
46. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
Canopy interception
freshwater springs
Density
Rocky planets and moons
47. 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
Inertia
Sublimation
Equinoxes
- cP
48. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Smaller regions of the oceans
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Runoff
Small islands
49. 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
Sun
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Continental air
The Gulf - Stream
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
California coast
The geological time scale
Earth
moisture
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