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1. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Daylight saving time zones
Solar eclipse
Mountain
Mantle
2. 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
Law of original horizontality
Volcano
Spring tide
Crustal rocks
3. Two high waters and two low waters each day - in most locations - tides are semidiurnal
Semidiurnal
Latitude
California coast
Rock salt
4. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Metamorphic rocks
Crustal rocks
3/4
jet stream
5. Temperature - pressure - and composition
Long - period comets
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Ways magma can form
Time zone
6. 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
Photosphere
Moon
freshwater
Opposite seasons
7. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere
Crustal rocks
Evaporation
snow
Uniformitarianism
8. 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...
Surface ocean temperature
Hydrologic concepts
Solar wind
larger planet
9. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
Percolation
50-100
Evapotranspiration
Snow packs
10. 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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11. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Equinoxes
Asteroids
Ice Age
Andromeda galaxy
12. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Cirrus clouds
Tropical air
Latitude
Petroleum exploration
13. Further caused by the elliptical orbit of the earth - Earth reaches perihelion (the point in its orbit closest to the sun) in January - and it reaches aphelion (farthest point from the sun) in July - Also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans
Snowmelt
Opposite seasons
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
11
14. 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
- mP
Mountain
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Neap tide/neaps
15. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes ________ - which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time
Evapotranspiration
11
Troposhere
aquifers
16. 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
11
Why weather occurs
Sedimentation
17. 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
cooling
The geological time scale
Planets
Surface temperature
18. Earth movements - The result of forces within the earth - where temperature and pressure differences lead to instability
- mT
Crustal rocks
Altostratus clouds
Asteroids
19. Sedimentary rocks containing large fragments of other rock material - e.g. Sandstone
Short - period comets
Conglomerates
Sedimentary rocks
Tidal range
20. 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
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
clouds
Stratus clouds
21. 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
Continental air
Sedimentation
Troposhere
Runoff
22. 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
Long linear arcs
California coast
Mantle
Scratch test
23. 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
Major oceans
Chemical weathering
lower
Convergent plate movements
24. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Axis tilt
Cumulonibus clouds
Nuclear fusion
Transform plate movements
25. 4 terrestrials: Mercury - Venus - Mars - Earth 4 gas giants: Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune At least 5 dwarf planets: Ceres - Pluto - Makemake - Haumea - Eris
Solar System
Surface ocean temperature
Time zone
- cP
26. Air currents move clouds around the globe and cloud particles collide - grow - and fall out of the sky as ________ - Most of it falls back into the oceans or onto land - where the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff - portion of run
precipitation
- mT
Coral reef
Winter solstice
27. Take up about 1/3 of the earth's land surface - many are formed by rain shadows - Usually have a large diurnal (day) and seasonal temperature range - with high daytime temperatures
Deserts
Weather phenomena on earth
Long - period comets
Evapotranspiration
28. 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
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Standard time zones
El Nino
Latitude
29. Texture is important in classifying ______ sedimentary rocks
Evapotranspiration
Clastic
The earth's structure
Distance
30. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
The geological time scale
clouds
The big bang theory of cosmology
Condensation
31. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as...
freshwater springs
Latitude
Planets
Earth's crust
32. The tidal force produced by the sun is ____ as large as that produced by the moon
46%
Small islands
Long - period comets
Cleavage
33. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Coral reef
freshwater springs
Short - period comets
Limestone
34. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
lower
Small islands
clouds
Standard time zones
35. 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
Diurnal
Chemical weathering
Divergent plate movements
Minerals
36. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity
The equator
Long linear arcs
Air mass
Surface ocean temperature
37. The Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by ___________ coming together
cooling
46%
Tropical air
Convergent tectonic plates
38. 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
clouds
Winter solstice
Surface temperature
Air mass
39. Refers to the long - term weather patterns of a large geographical area and takes into account temperature - humidity - and precipitation
Climate
Continental air
Erosion and land use
lower
40. 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
World/global ocean
Fossils
Cirrus clouds
Polar air
41. Typically the tidal mouths of rivers and are often characterized by _____________ or silt carried in from terrestrial runoff - frequently from offshore
El Nino
Igneous rocks
Distance
Sedimentation
42. Different visual appearance; when discovered - comets show a perceptible coma while asteroids do not
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Cumulonibus clouds
Weather phenomena on earth
Continental air
43. 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
Law of superposition
Semidiurnal
Latitude
World/global ocean
44. 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
Snow packs
Rainfall
Uniformitarianism
Fossils
45. The center of the sun may have a temperature of millions of degrees; the visible surface - the ______ - is about 6000
Canopy interception
Tectonic plates
Photosphere
aquifers
46. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
Daylight saving time zones
Altostratus clouds
Convergent plate movements
Long linear arcs
47. Some precipitation falls as ____ and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers - which can store water for thousands of years
Photosphere
Crustal rocks
Major oceans
snow
48. The resulting dust layer would act as a shield - blocking out much of the sun's rays - This would result in lower global temperatures and a general _____ of the earth
Short - period comets
Rainfall
Styles of rock deformation
cooling
49. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Transpiration
Continental drift
Air mass
The earth's structure
50. 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...
Distance
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Igneous rocks
Axis tilt
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