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CSET Earth
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
aquifers
El Nino
Cleavage
Opposite seasons
2. Cause pressure differences - A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands - lowering the air pressure and its density
Precipitation
Clastic
Surface temperature differences
Major oceans
3. The result of the buildup of once - living things
- cT
Coral reef
Density
freshwater
4. The spectra of distant objects display a red shift - which is interpreted as meaning that they are rapidly receding from us - This apparent expansion of the universe has given rise to the big bang theory of cosmology - in which one primeval mass expl
Weight and mass
Plate tectonics
Limestone
The big bang theory of cosmology
5. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
Winter solstice
Speed of light
Condensation
clouds
6. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
The rock cycle
lower
Geology
larger planet
7. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
groundwater discharge
Erosion and land use
Chemical weathering
Full moon
8. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
jet stream
Rainfall
Eclipses
Chaotic system
9. Refers to the long - term weather patterns of a large geographical area and takes into account temperature - humidity - and precipitation
Minerals
Climate
Pacific Ring of Fire
15
10. Earth movements - The result of forces within the earth - where temperature and pressure differences lead to instability
Groundwater
11
Crustal rocks
The distinction between asteroids and comets
11. Formed by sodium chloride
Rock salt
15
World/global ocean
El Nino
12. 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
Styles of rock deformation
Polar air
Nuclear fusion
13. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
Orogenic zones
Types of clouds
Small islands
Opposite seasons
14. 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
Earth's crust
Colder
Latitude
Troposhere
15. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Metamorphic rocks
Weathering
Convergent tectonic plates
Divergent plate movements
16. Cirrus - Stratus - Cumulonimbus - Altostratus
Metamorphic rocks
Types of clouds
The rock cycle
Axis tilt
17. Officially defined as sustained sea surface temperature anomalies of magnitude greater than 0.5
River
Ice Age
Inertia
El Nino and La Nina
18. 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
Sun's gravity
Moon
Sedimentary rocks
Metamorphic rocks
19. 4 terrestrials: Mercury - Venus - Mars - Earth 4 gas giants: Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune At least 5 dwarf planets: Ceres - Pluto - Makemake - Haumea - Eris
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Standard time zones
Solar System
Styles of rock deformation
20. Tides may be...
moisture
New moon
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Snow packs
21. 1 hour of time
Runoff
Density
Valley breeze
15
22. 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
Orogenic zones
Surface temperature differences
Lithosphere
Ice Age
23. 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...
Subduction zones
Solar wind
Strata
Percolation
24. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Metamorphic rocks
Sedimentation
3/4
precipitation
25. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
The rock cycle
Cleavage
Surface temperature
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
26. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
Climate
Opposite seasons
Types of galaxies
Fossils
27. Comprises one global - interconnected body of salt water often (though generally recognized as several separate oceans) - A continuous body of water with relatively free interchange among its parts
- mT
Sun's gravity
Runoff
World/global ocean
28. Mountains blocking the path of precipitation to the desert
Limestone
Rain shadow
Geology
The geological time scale
29. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle
The rock cycle
Rainfall
Erosion
29.5
30. 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
lower elevation
Semidiurnal
Inertia
jet stream
31. The movement (carrying away or displacement) of solids (sediment - soil - rock - and other particles) - usually by the agents of currents such as wind - water - or ice by downward or down - slope movement in response to gravity
Sunspots
Erosion
La Nina
Differential heating
32. Faulting and folding
Standard time zones
Transpiration
Moon
Styles of rock deformation
33. Sun heats water in the oceans - Water evaporates as vapor into the air - Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor...- Over time - the water reenters the ocean - where the water cycle started
The Gulf - Stream
Hydrologic cycle
lower elevation
Chaotic system
34. 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
Groundwater
Convergent plate movements
Tectonic plates
- mP
35. Center: 3000
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36. Igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface - Examples obsidian - basalt - and pumice
Surface ocean temperature
Scratch test
Extrusive
Photosphere
37. Runoff and groundwater are stored as ________ in lakes
Metamorphic rocks
Sublimation
freshwater
Orogenic zones
38. 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
Parallax
Daylight saving time zones
Planets
Snow packs
39. Volcanoes are also found in __________ - where the denser oceanic plates are forced under continental plates; this adds massive volumes of water to the mantle - allowing magma to melt more readily and rise to the surface to form volcanoes
29.5
Uniformitarianism
Andromeda galaxy
Subduction zones
40. 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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41. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
Snow packs
Mohs' scale of hardness
Erosion and land use
Styles of rock deformation
42. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Ice Age
Venus
Conglomerates
aquifers
43. Not all runoff flows into rivers; much of it infiltrates into the ground through...
Crustal rocks
The rock cycle
percolation
Long - period comets
44. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Law of original horizontality
46%
Block mountains or fold mountains
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
45. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
Erosion
Earth
Surface ocean currents
Distance
46. 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
11
Fossils
Petroleum exploration
Continental drift
47. 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
Mid - oceanic ridge
Crust
Moon
cooling
48. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Solar System
aquifers
Semidiurnal
Small islands
49. 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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50. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
Chaotic system
clouds
Meteorology
Opposite seasons