SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CSET Earth
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
cset
,
science
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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
Mantle plumes
El Nino and La Nina
Neap tide/neaps
Solar eclipse
2. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through direct contact with atmospheric conditions such as heat - water - ice - and pressure
Weathering
Distance
Mechanical/physical weathering
Spring tide
3. Continental tropical (dry - warm air)
Eclipses
Types of clouds
Smaller regions of the oceans
- cT
4. Some precipitation falls as ____ and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers - which can store water for thousands of years
15
snow
Runoff
Equinoxes
5. 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
precipitation
Scratch test
Solar wind
Pacific Ring of Fire
6. Refers to the long - term weather patterns of a large geographical area and takes into account temperature - humidity - and precipitation
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Climate
The big bang theory of cosmology
Snowmelt
7. Smooth layers of low clouds that indicate a chance of drizzle or snow
Standard time zones
Stratus clouds
Sedimentary rocks
Surface ocean temperature
8. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Weathering
Maritime air
Surface temperature
Pacific Ring of Fire
9. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
Surface temperature
Erosion
Earth's crust
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
10. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
Time zone
The rock cycle
Solar radiation
Eclipses
11. Tides may be...
Axis tilt
Semidiurnal or diurnal
The rock cycle
Ways magma can form
12. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
3/4
Surface ocean temperature
New moon
13. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Cleavage
Maritime air
Clastic
Daylight saving time zones
14. 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
Surface temperature
Why weather occurs
Full moon
Equinoxes
15. Forms south of the Arctic and is cold
Galactic center
Transform plate movements
Polar air
Sunspots
16. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
11
Deserts
Short - period comets
17. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Photosphere
Gravity and inertia
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
18. 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
Equinoxes
Galactic center
Mountain
Fossils
19. 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
Polar air
Erosion and land use
Hydrologic cycle
50-100
20. 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
Axis tilt
The equator
The most abundant minerals in the crust
larger planet
21. A region of the earth that has uniform standard time - usually referred to as the local time - divided into standard and daylight saving (or summer)
11
Time zone
Spring tide
Hydrologic concepts
22. The outermost part of the earth's interior is made up of two layers...
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
Minerals
Solar wind
Fossils
23. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
percolation
Polar air
Continental air
Erosion and land use
24. The degrees north or south of the equator
Altostratus clouds
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Eclipses
Latitude
25. 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
Lithosphere
Semidiurnal
Surface temperature
Stratus clouds
26. 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
Mid - oceanic ridge
Extrusive
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
El Nino and La Nina
27. Two feldspars (orthoclase and plagioclase) - quartz - olivine - and augite - These five minerals are silicates - built from interlocking silicon and oxygen atoms
percolation
Equinoxes
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
The most abundant minerals in the crust
28. 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)
Daylight saving time zones
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Polar air
Plate tectonics
29. Maritime tropical (wet - warm air)
Subduction zones
Sedimentation
- mT
Major oceans
30. 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
Types of clouds
Parallax
Divergent plate movements
Surface ocean currents
31. Igneous rock that forms on the earth's surface - Examples obsidian - basalt - and pumice
Rocky planets and moons
Conglomerates
Extrusive
Weathering
32. 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
Mechanical/physical weathering
cooling
- cP
Latitude
33. Characterized by similar temperatures and moisture levels
Air mass
Time zone
Limestone
Venus
34. 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
Differential heating
Meteorology
Stars
35. Large - dark clouds that indicate thunderstorms
Sublimation
15
Cumulonibus clouds
El Nino
36. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
New moon
Solar radiation
Runoff
Percolation
37. The lateral movement of the plates is typically at speeds of ___ mm annually
Opposite seasons
Minerals
50-100
Estuary
38. Faulting and folding
Maritime air
freshwater
Styles of rock deformation
Stratus clouds
39. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Deserts
precipitation
Nuclear fusion
Short - period comets
40. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
Galaxies
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
larger planet
Limestone
41. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Soil
Intrusive
Groundwater
Block mountains or fold mountains
42. Form when dissolved mineral solutions crystalize out of lakes and oceans
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Continental drift
jet stream
Long - period comets
43. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Block mountains or fold mountains
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Clastic
Crustal rocks
44. Form when magma or lava cools and solidifies - Depending on the rate of cooling - can contain visible crystals - while others can appear glassy
Condensation
- cT
Igneous rocks
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
45. Pulls the planets toward the sun - while their inertia keeps them moving forward in an elliptical orbit around the sun
46. Continental polar (dry - cold air)
- cP
Speed of light
Inertia
Nuclear fusion
47. (in descending order of size) the Pacific Ocean - the Atlantic Ocean - the Indian Ocean - the Southern Ocean and the Arctic Ocean
Orogenic zones
Minerals
Tides
Major oceans
48. The fossiliferous strata record is only the last __% of the earth's history
Equinoxes
The equator
Intrusive
11
49. Natural chemical compounds that are the crystals that make up rocks - Each has a specific composition or narrow range of composition
Uniformitarianism
Density
Solar wind
Minerals
50. Characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the same area - Atlanta tropical cyclone activity is generally enhanced during La Nina - Often follows the El Nino - especially when the latter is strong
La Nina
Neap tide/neaps
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
larger planet