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CSET Earth
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1. 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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2. Common: wind - clouds - rain - snow - fog - dust storms - Less common: natural disasters such as tornadoes - hurricanes - and ice storms
Coral reef
Condensation
Law of original horizontality
Weather phenomena on earth
3. Precipitation - Canopy interception - Snowmelt - Runoff - Percolation - Subsurface flow- Evaporation - Sublimation - Condensation
Hydrologic concepts
Continental air
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Altostratus clouds
4. Texture is important in classifying ______ sedimentary rocks
Opposite seasons
10000
Speed of light
Clastic
5. The degrees east or west of the prime meridian through Greenwich - England
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Longitude
Altostratus clouds
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
6. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Hydrologic concepts
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Subduction zones
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
7. 1 hour of time
Snow packs
15
Galaxies
Comet nuclei
8. Scientists theorize that massive volcanic eruptions on a global scale contributed to the earth's cooling - resulting in the onset of the...
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Solar radiation
Runoff
Ice Age
9. 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
clouds
Axis tilt
- cP
Volcano
10. Forms over land and is associated with dry air
Altostratus clouds
freshwater
- cT
Continental air
11. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Groundwater
groundwater discharge
Full moon
12. Officially defined as sustained sea surface temperature anomalies of magnitude greater than 0.5
El Nino and La Nina
Daylight saving time zones
New moon
- mT
13. 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
Canopy interception
Cirrus clouds
Opposite seasons
Mantle
14. The center of the sun may have a temperature of millions of degrees; the visible surface - the ______ - is about 6000
Photosphere
Extrusive
River
Sunspots
15. Bodies similar to the sun but immensely distant - Closest stars are 4 light - years away
El Nino
The earth's structure
Weight and mass
Stars
16. 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
Winter solstice
Altostratus clouds
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Scratch test
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
Troposhere
Erosion
Igneous rocks
Runoff
18. Younger beds were originally deposited above older beds
Subduction zones
Law of superposition
Earth
Ice Age
19. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
Planets
Small islands
15
Intrusive
20. At any given time - regardless of season - the Northern and Southern Hemispheres experience...
Stars
Minerals
Opposite seasons
Longitude
21. Tides may be...
Meteorology
10000
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Asteroids
22. Takes approx. seven and a half earth months to revolve around the sun - Takes approx. eight earth months to rotate on its axis - a day on ________ is longer than a year
Ice Age
Differential heating
percolation
Venus
23. Featherlike clouds that indicate fair weather
Stratus clouds
Cirrus clouds
Gravity and inertia
Meteorology
24. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Tectonic plates
Gravity and inertia
Parallax
Crustal rocks
25. 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...
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Evapotranspiration
Solar wind
California coast
26. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Nuclear fusion
Why weather occurs
Lithosphere
Convergent plate movements
27. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Sublimation
Differential heating
Styles of rock deformation
Conglomerates
28. Occurs when the moon sets at sunset - Then the moon is between the earth and the sun - so we see only the dark half of the moon
Time zone
Mechanical/physical weathering
Differential heating
New moon
29. Ancient astronomers found that eclipses occurred periodically and learned to predict them accurately - Lunar and solar
Sun
Minerals
Longitude
Eclipses
30. Volcanoes can be caused by '____________'; these so - called hotspots - as in Hawaii - can occur far from plate boundaries
- cP
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Mantle plumes
Extrusive
31. Gas giants Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus and Neptune have diameters far larger than Earth's and have far greater masses
Mid - oceanic ridge
Neap tide/neaps
Weight and mass
Surface temperature
32. A natural flow of water - usually freshwater - traveling toward an ocean - a lake - or another stream
Inertia
River
Earth's crust
- cP
33. Condensed water vapor that falls to the earth's surface - Most precipitation occurs as rain - but also includes snow - hail - fog drip - graupel - and sleet
Weather phenomena on earth
Andromeda galaxy
Continental drift
Precipitation
34. 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)
Plate tectonics
Hydrologic cycle
Chemical weathering
Axis tilt
35. 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
Rainfall
- mP
Runoff
Inertia
36. Around a new or full moon - when the sun - moon - and the earth form a line - the tidal forces due to the sun reinforce those of the moon - The tide's range is at a maximum and is called a spring tide (spring as in 'to jump/leap -' not the season)
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
moisture
Spring tide
Speed of light
37. 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
Surface ocean currents
lower
Andromeda galaxy
Polar air
38. Maritime polar (wet - cold air)
Hydrologic concepts
- mP
Transpiration
Spring tide
39. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
Snow packs
Cleavage
The earth's structure
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
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
Speed of light
Precipitation
World/global ocean
Erosion
41. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
The earth's structure
Sublimation
Galactic center
clouds
42. 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
larger planet
Types of galaxies
La Nina
Surface ocean temperature
43. 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
Conglomerates
The big bang theory of cosmology
15
Major oceans
44. Seas - gulfs - bays - and other names
Galactic center
Long linear arcs
Transpiration
Smaller regions of the oceans
45. Center: 3000
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46. A small Solar System body that orbits the Sun - When close enough to the sun - exhibits a visible coma (atmosphere) or a tail - both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the comet's nucleus - Have a variety of different orbital periods
larger planet
Surface temperature differences
Deserts
Comet
47. The runoff produced by melting snow
Polar air
Snowmelt
Small islands
Air mass
48. On maps - the characteristics of an air mass are represented by two letters: The lowercase letter represents ________ - and the uppercase letter represents temperature
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
The equator
Altostratus clouds
moisture
49. A land form that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area - with a peak - Usually produced by the movement of lithospheric plates
Mountain
larger planet
Soil
Andromeda galaxy
50. Temperature - pressure - and composition
Ways magma can form
Ice Age
Soil
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere