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CSET Earth
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1. Thought to originate in the Kuiper Belt - or associated scattered discs - which lie beyond the orbit of Neptune
The geological time scale
Transpiration
Mid - oceanic ridge
Short - period comets
2. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity
Maritime air
Long - period comets
Long linear arcs
Mountain
3. Forms over land and is associated with dry air
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
46%
3/4
Continental air
4. 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
The Gulf - Stream
Precipitation
Mid - oceanic ridge
Why weather occurs
5. Evaporation often implicitly includes ___________ from plants - although together they are specifically referred to as evapotranspiration
Transpiration
percolation
Snow packs
Mantle plumes
6. Cirrus - Stratus - Cumulonimbus - Altostratus
Solar radiation
Plate tectonics
Tectonic plates
Types of clouds
7. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface - water bodies (and the ocean) as...
groundwater discharge
Inertia
Sun
Subsurface flow
8. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmopshere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into ____
Meteorology
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
clouds
Intrusive
9. 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
Mid - oceanic ridge
New moon
Ice Age
Hydrologic cycle
10. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through atmospheric chemicals or biologically produced chemicals (also known as biological weathering)
Igneous rocks
Precipitation
Speed of light
Chemical weathering
11. 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
Colder
lower
Tidal range
Extrusive
12. 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
Short - period comets
Gravity and inertia
Inertia
Volcano
13. One tidal cycle per day
Diurnal
Law of superposition
Divergent plate movements
Mantle
14. The process in which one type of rock changes into another
The rock cycle
Smaller regions of the oceans
jet stream
Sun
15. Pulls the planets toward the sun - while their inertia keeps them moving forward in an elliptical orbit around the sun
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16. Both gravity and inertia work together to keep planets in orbit around the sun - Inertia makes a planet travel in a straight line
Latitude
Gravity and inertia
Speed of light
cooling
17. 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
Latitude
Daylight saving time zones
Convergent tectonic plates
Air mass
18. A semi - closed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it - and with a free connection to the open sea - Often associated with high levels of biological diversity - They are made up of brackish water - Often given names
Subsurface flow
Volcano
Deserts
Estuary
19. Sometimes called minor planets or planetoids - Bodies
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Galaxies
cooling
Asteroids
20. Forms over the Tropics and is warm
Tropical air
Rainfall
Sun's gravity
Scratch test
21. 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
11
Pacific Ring of Fire
Chemical weathering
Petroleum exploration
22. 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
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Axis tilt
River
23. 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
Andromeda galaxy
Eclipses
Limestone
24. Sedimentary rocks containing large fragments of other rock material - e.g. Sandstone
- mT
Estuary
Conglomerates
Chemical sedimentary rocks
25. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
Snow packs
Surface ocean currents
Diurnal
Eclipses
26. 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
5.6
Runoff
cooling
Troposhere
27. 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
The big bang theory of cosmology
Speed of light
15
Inertia
28. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Small islands
Galactic center
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Nuclear fusion
29. 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
Tropical air
Colder
- cT
15
30. Somewhat cooler disturbances in the photosphere
Sunspots
precipitation
Comet
Tectonic plates
31. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Surface temperature
Time zone
Groundwater
Opposite seasons
32. The stress is particularly severe in _________ - which are characterized by volcanism - metamorphism - deformation - and uplift
29.5
Longitude
Cumulonibus clouds
Orogenic zones
33. Seasons are marked by changes in the amount of sunlight - which in turn often cause cycles of dormancy in plants and hibernation in animals - These effects vary with latitude and with proximity to bodies of water
50-100
Mantle
Solar radiation
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
34. Bodies similar to the sun but immensely distant - Closest stars are 4 light - years away
Rock salt
Stars
Earth
Cataclysmic volcanic eruptions
35. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
Canopy interception
Tropical air
Colder
Solar radiation
36. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
- cP
Limestone
The most abundant minerals in the crust
Standard time zones
37. The precipitation that is intercepted by plant foliage and eventually evaporates back to the atmosphere rather than falling to the ground
Soil
3/4
freshwater springs
Canopy interception
38. 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
Coral reef
Why weather occurs
Transpiration
Full moon
39. A land form that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area - with a peak - Usually produced by the movement of lithospheric plates
Evapotranspiration
Mountain
Volcano
Comet
40. A major determiner of coastal climate
Soil
Eclipses
3/4
Surface ocean temperature
41. 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)
El Nino and La Nina
lower
Plate tectonics
Transpiration
42. - The materials left over after the rock breaks down combine with organic material - The mineral content is determined by the parent material; thus - a soil derived from a single rock type can often be deficient in one or more minerals for good ferti
Seasons in the temperate and polar regions
Chemical sedimentary rocks
Soil
Styles of rock deformation
43. 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
Groundwater
The equator
Rocky planets and moons
44. Composed of the fragments of other types of rocks - Cover 75 to 80% of the earth's land area - Often deposited in distinct parallel layers - Weather and erosion break down other rock types into sediments - Over time - the sediments become cemented an
Sedimentary rocks
Rainfall
Diurnal
lower
45. 4 terrestrials: Mercury - Venus - Mars - Earth 4 gas giants: Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune At least 5 dwarf planets: Ceres - Pluto - Makemake - Haumea - Eris
Tropical air
Solar System
Transpiration
Winter solstice
46. The strength of gravity in our solar system depends on both the masses of the celestial objects and the _______ between them
Soil
The rock cycle
clouds
Distance
47. Theory that the earth's continents were originally united as a supercontinent - Pangaea - Established by Alfred Wegener in the early 1900s
Inertia
Continental drift
Volcano
Sun and oceans' affect on weather
48. Center: 3000
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49. The degrees north or south of the equator
Condensation
Long - period comets
Erosion
Latitude
50. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
10000
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Sedimentary - igneous - metamorphic
Rain shadow