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CSET Earth
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1. Occur along plate boundaries
10000
Equinoxes
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
Mohs' scale of hardness
2. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Sedimentary rocks
Erosion and land use
Photosphere
New moon
3. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity
Asteroids
Colder
Mid - oceanic ridge
larger planet
4. 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
Hydrologic concepts
El Nino and La Nina
Subduction zones
Axis tilt
5. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Opposite seasons
Snow packs
Evaporation
Tectonic plates
6. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
The big bang theory of cosmology
Tropical air
Estuary
7. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
snow
jet stream
Comet
Snow packs
8. 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
Axis tilt
- cP
Mineral color
Colder
9. Forms over water and is associated with wet air
Maritime air
Meteorology
15
Petroleum exploration
10. Two feldspars (orthoclase and plagioclase) - quartz - olivine - and augite - These five minerals are silicates - built from interlocking silicon and oxygen atoms
Crust
Percolation
Eclipses
The most abundant minerals in the crust
11. Typically the tidal mouths of rivers and are often characterized by _____________ or silt carried in from terrestrial runoff - frequently from offshore
Rain shadow
Sedimentation
Polar air
Solar eclipse
12. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
Orogenic zones
Climate
Small islands
Petroleum exploration
13. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog
El Nino and La Nina
Rocky planets and moons
Sublimation
Condensation
14. (or summer time zones) include an offset (typically +1 hour) for daylight saving time
Conglomerates
Daylight saving time zones
Tidal range
Mineral color
15. Faulting and folding
Sun
Sunspots
Styles of rock deformation
Convergent tectonic plates
16. Mountains blocking the path of precipitation to the desert
46%
River
Hydrologic concepts
Rain shadow
17. Hotspot volcanoes are also found elsewhere in the Solar System - especially on...
Speed of light
Evapotranspiration
Rocky planets and moons
Distance
18. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Gravity and inertia
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
Short - period comets
Uniformitarianism
19. 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
cooling
Styles of rock deformation
Sunspots
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
20. 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
Deserts
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Troposhere
Tectonic plates
21. The result of the buildup of once - living things
Solar eclipse
Coral reef
Ways magma can form
Earthquakes - volcanic activity - mountain - building - and oceanic trench formation
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
Sun
Lithosphere
Rainfall
Chemical sedimentary rocks
23. 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
Volcano
Plate tectonics
Continental air
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
24. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)
Galaxies
3/4
Geology
Moon
25. A natural flow of water - usually freshwater - traveling toward an ocean - a lake - or another stream
Intrusive
World/global ocean
Galactic center
River
26. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
3/4
Short - period comets
Solar radiation
Nuclear fusion
27. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface - water bodies (and the ocean) as...
larger planet
46%
Coral reef
groundwater discharge
28. 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
Limestone
Lithosphere
Air mass
Inertia
29. Stars with the highest ___________ appear blue - while stars with the lowest surface temperature appear red
Nuclear fusion
46%
Surface temperature
precipitation
30. Form when dissolved mineral solutions crystalize out of lakes and oceans
freshwater springs
Scratch test
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Sublimation
31. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Deserts
Rainfall
Smaller regions of the oceans
Galactic center
32. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Weight and mass
clouds
Nuclear fusion
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
33. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
Condensation
Sedimentation
Smaller regions of the oceans
Block mountains or fold mountains
34. Temperature - pressure - and composition
Strata
Ways magma can form
Polar air
Sunspots
35. Tides may be...
Density
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Examples to support Continental drift theory
Rain shadow
36. Human civilization has lasted only _____ years
Air mass
10000
Erosion and land use
Earth
37. Large - dark clouds that indicate thunderstorms
Why weather occurs
Cirrus clouds
Groundwater
Cumulonibus clouds
38. The movement of rainwater as it filters through soil and rocks into the ground - becoming groundwater
Percolation
Distance
Equinoxes
Weathering
39. 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
World/global ocean
Maritime air
Tidal range
Sun
40. The fossiliferous strata record is only the last __% of the earth's history
Cleavage
Spring tide
Mineral color
11
41. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
The rock cycle
Examples to support Continental drift theory
California coast
Small islands
42. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault
Daylight saving time zones
Condensation
Crust
Transform plate movements
43. 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
Surface temperature differences
Solar System
Soil
Moon
44. Less than 1% of the earth; this relatively thin zone (5 to 25 miles) contains the only rocks we can study - even in the deepest mines or drill holes
Crust
Orogenic zones
Altostratus clouds
- cT
45. Younger beds were originally deposited above older beds
Law of superposition
Stars
groundwater discharge
Surface temperature differences
46. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the ________
Galactic center
jet stream
10000
Canopy interception
47. How much matter is in the object
Earth
Density
River
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
48. Piled in waves and indicate rain or snow
The rock cycle
Planets
Altostratus clouds
Limestone
49. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
The equator
Weight and mass
Mineral color
Longitude
50. Igneous rock that cools beneath the earth's surface - Examples: plutons - dikes - and batholiths
New moon
Intrusive
Continental drift
aquifers
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