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CSET Earth
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1. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Clastic
Sedimentation
Latitude
Gravity and inertia
2. Water returns to the land surface at __________ than where it entered - under the force of gravity or gravity - induced pressures
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Geology
La Nina
lower elevation
3. Large - dark clouds that indicate thunderstorms
Cumulonibus clouds
Continental drift
15
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
4. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Law of original horizontality
Ice Age
Evapotranspiration
Inertia
5. When the moon is at first quarter or third quarter - the sun - earth and moon form a 90- degree (right) angle with the earth at the vertex - The combined effect of this alignment of the sun - earth - and moon results in tidal ranges on the earth - Wh
Neap tide/neaps
Metamorphic rocks
precipitation
River
6. 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
7. 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
Differential heating
Smaller regions of the oceans
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Surface temperature differences
8. A natural flow of water - usually freshwater - traveling toward an ocean - a lake - or another stream
Continental drift
El Nino
River
Estuary
9. 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
Cirrus clouds
Solar System
Surface ocean temperature
The big bang theory of cosmology
10. 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
Geology
Surface temperature
freshwater
Mantle
11. 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
Clastic
Metamorphic rocks
Pacific Ring of Fire
Equinoxes
12. Affected by factors such as weathering and impurities
Mineral color
Seasons
Hydrologic cycle
Tides
13. Almost all familiar weather phenomena occur in the __________ (the lower part of the atmosphere)
Seasons
Troposhere
Tidal range
Meteorology
14. Paleontology: Fossil evidence indicates the similarity of fossils on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean - Continental 'jigsaw puzzle': The outlines of the continents seem to fit together
Climate
Examples to support Continental drift theory
The big bang theory of cosmology
Continental drift
15. The tidal force produced by the sun is ____ as large as that produced by the moon
46%
Moon
Convergent plate movements
Cleavage
16. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Block mountains or fold mountains
Surface ocean currents
La Nina
Weight and mass
17. The variety of ways by which water moves across the land - This includes both surface runoff and channel runoff - As it flows - the water may percolate into the ground - evaporate into the air - become stored in lakes or reservoirs - or be extracted
Runoff
Cumulonibus clouds
Divergent plate movements
Precipitation
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
Seasons
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
Solar eclipse
Continental air
19. 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
Hydrologic cycle
Solar wind
Sublimation
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
20. 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
Valley breeze
Volcano
Mountain
Nuclear fusion
21. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Igneous rocks
Continental drift
Short - period comets
Sunspots
22. 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
Erosion
Equinoxes
Full moon
11
23. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
Crust
Gravity and inertia
percolation
Intrusive
24. 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
Precipitation
Metamorphic rocks
Subduction zones
Chemical weathering
25. Continental polar (dry - cold air)
Cumulonibus clouds
- cP
Divergent plate movements
Snow packs
26. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
10000
percolation
The geological time scale
Subduction zones
27. 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
Fossils
Law of original horizontality
California coast
Tidal range
28. 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
Sun's gravity
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Hydrologic cycle
Polar air
29. 186000 miles/second
moisture
Longitude
Moon
Speed of light
30. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
29.5
Block mountains or fold mountains
Ice Age
Weather phenomena on earth
31. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
jet stream
Evapotranspiration
- cT
Surface ocean temperature
32. Form when magma or lava cools and solidifies - Depending on the rate of cooling - can contain visible crystals - while others can appear glassy
Asteroids
Mineral color
Surface ocean temperature
Igneous rocks
33. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Surface temperature
Weight and mass
Groundwater
Precipitation
34. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Cleavage
50-100
Asteroids
Maritime air
35. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Surface temperature
Tropical air
lower elevation
Rocky planets and moons
36. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
Coral reef
Continental drift
Weather phenomena on earth
Weathering
37. The difference between levels of ocean water at high and low tides
La Nina
Tidal range
Scratch test
Surface ocean currents
38. 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...
Solar wind
Altostratus clouds
Venus
50-100
39. Natural chemical compounds that are the crystals that make up rocks - Each has a specific composition or narrow range of composition
Lunar eclipse
Minerals
Earth's crust
Winter solstice
40. Forms over land and is associated with dry air
Continental air
Meteorology
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
El Nino and La Nina
41. Maritime tropical (wet - warm air)
Winter solstice
- mT
Soil
Sedimentation
42. Faulting and folding
Tidal range
Hydrologic cycle
The earth's structure
Styles of rock deformation
43. A land form that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area - with a peak - Usually produced by the movement of lithospheric plates
Latitude
Mountain
Rainfall
Percolation
44. 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
Altostratus clouds
Mid - oceanic ridge
Moon
15
45. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Block mountains or fold mountains
Galactic center
15
5.6
46. 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.
Scratch test
Tidal range
Uniformitarianism
Nuclear fusion
47. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years
El Nino and La Nina
Petroleum exploration
Types of galaxies
Asteroids
48. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
Sunspots
Chaotic system
Surface temperature
Meteorology
49. 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
Planets
Uniformitarianism
River
Photosphere
50. 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
Equinoxes
The earth's structure
Transpiration
The rock cycle