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CSET Earth
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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...
Equinoxes
Coral reef
Solar wind
Opposite seasons
2. Sometimes called minor planets or planetoids - Bodies
Petroleum exploration
Asteroids
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
moisture
3. Form when dissolved mineral solutions crystalize out of lakes and oceans
Small islands
Soil
Weather phenomena on earth
Chemical sedimentary rocks
4. Texture is important in classifying ______ sedimentary rocks
Volcano
Polar air
Clastic
Long - period comets
5. Cause pressure differences - A hot surface heats the air above it and the air expands - lowering the air pressure and its density
Surface temperature differences
Inertia
groundwater discharge
- cT
6. Formed by sodium chloride
Rock salt
The big bang theory of cosmology
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Fossils
7. The runoff produced by melting snow
Igneous rocks
New moon
Percolation
Snowmelt
8. The state change where a solid (ice or snow) changes directly to a gas (water vapor)
Tropical air
Extrusive
Sublimation
Seasons
9. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity
Long linear arcs
Asteroids
5.6
Mantle plumes
10. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the...
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11. The source of energy for evaporation is primarily through ___________
Asteroids
Types of galaxies
Crustal rocks
Solar radiation
12. Occur twice a year - when the tilt of the earth's axis is oriented neither from nor to the sun - causing the sun to be located vertically above a point on the equator - The name derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night) - because at the e
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
Equinoxes
Standard time zones
Rainfall
13. Large - dark clouds that indicate thunderstorms
Pacific Ring of Fire
Short - period comets
Cumulonibus clouds
Limestone
14. 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
Estuary
Small islands
Snowmelt
Fossils
15. Defined by geometrically subdividing the earth's spheroid into 24 lunes (wedge - shaped sections) - bordered by meridians - each 15
Standard time zones
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Ice Age
Colder
16. Tides may be...
Venus
freshwater springs
Semidiurnal or diurnal
Erosion and land use
17. Tends to move slowly and is replenished slowly - and so it can remain in aquifers for thousands of years
Groundwater
The equator
Hydrologic cycle
Maritime air
18. 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
The geological time scale
Percolation
- mT
19. The atmosphere is a __________ - and so small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole - This makes it difficult to accurately predict weather more than a few days in advance
Chaotic system
Rain shadow
Latitude
Mantle plumes
20. Different visual appearance; when discovered - comets show a perceptible coma while asteroids do not
The distinction between asteroids and comets
Polar air
Longitude
Hydrologic cycle
21. 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
Subsurface flow
Volcano
Continental air
The distinction between asteroids and comets
22. 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
Long - period comets
Rainfall
Precipitation
Colder
23. 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
Latitude
5.6
- mP
Limestone
24. Forms south of the Arctic and is cold
Orogenic zones
Polar air
Surface temperature differences
freshwater springs
25. 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
The distinction between asteroids and comets
El Nino
Seasonal weather differences between hemispheres
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
26. 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
Sun
Weathering
Lunar eclipse
Ways magma can form
27. Oceans cover __ of the earth's surface
Subsurface flow
3/4
Weather phenomena on earth
Lithosphere and the asthenosphere
28. 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...
Spring tide
Meteorology
Weathering
Convergent/collision boundaries - divergent/spreading boundaries - and transform boundaries
29. 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
Canopy interception
Valley breeze
Seasons
World/global ocean
30. Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes - including many apparently ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor
46%
Clastic
Small islands
Long - period comets
31. Mountains blocking the path of precipitation to the desert
Rain shadow
Altostratus clouds
Condensation
Solar radiation
32. Due to a combination of differential heating and geometry - hen the sun rises - it is the tops of the mountain peaks which receive first light - and as the day progresses - the mountain slopes take on a greater heat load than the valleys - This resul
Mountain breezes and valley breezes
Meteorology
Short - period comets
Winter solstice
33. 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
Extrusive
Hydrologic cycle
Condensation
Earth's crust
34. Paleontology: Fossil evidence indicates the similarity of fossils on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean - Continental 'jigsaw puzzle': The outlines of the continents seem to fit together
- cT
Transform plate movements
Examples to support Continental drift theory
percolation
35. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals
Nuclear fusion
Weathering
Geology
precipitation
36. Bbreaking along flat surfaces
Comet
Rainfall
Mantle
Cleavage
37. Huge systems of stars - Milky Way is estimated to have 100 billion stars arranged in a great disk
snow
The earth's structure
Galaxies
Convergent tectonic plates
38. A major determiner of coastal climate
Parallax
Surface ocean temperature
lower
Smaller regions of the oceans
39. 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
The rock cycle
New moon
Colder
40. 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
10000
Axis tilt
Seasons
Surface ocean temperature
41. The evaporation of these oceans is how we get most of our __________ - and their temperature determines our climate and wind patterns
Rocky planets and moons
Continental drift
Snow packs
Rainfall
42. Erosion in many places is increased by human land use - Poor land - use practices include deforestation - overgrazing - unmanaged construction activity - and road building
Erosion and land use
Climate
Precipitation
Sedimentation
43. The precipitation that is intercepted by plant foliage and eventually evaporates back to the atmosphere rather than falling to the ground
Canopy interception
Venus
Solar radiation
Weathering
44. Runoff and groundwater are stored as ________ in lakes
Weather phenomena on earth
Semidiurnal
freshwater
Winter solstice
45. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...
Percolation
Surface ocean currents
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Strata
46. Can thaw and melt - and the ensuing water flows overland as snowmelt
Snow packs
29.5
Metamorphic rocks
Law of original horizontality
47. Under solar conditions - gases are undergoing _____ to heavier elements with the increase of prodigious quantities of energy
Short - period comets
Nuclear fusion
- cT
Law of original horizontality
48. The result of the buildup of once - living things
Crust
5.6
Coral reef
Inertia
49. The sun is not at the center of the disk - but out toward the perimeter - and is revolving around the ________
Galactic center
Terrace building - conservation tillage practices - and tree planting
Rainfall
Tidal range
50. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces
Subsurface flow
Sun's gravity
Block mountains or fold mountains
cooling