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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science
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1. The moon and sun are on opposite sides of the Earth. The Earth blocks the sun casting its shadow on the moon; there's no light on the moon
Neap Tides
Lunar eclipse
How stars are classified
Spring Tides
2. Highs want to equalize which causes high winds - causing...
Frontal System
Eclipses
different causes of chemical weathering
hurricanes
3. What galaxy is Earth in?
Milky Way
convergent fault
renewable resources
subduction
4. What does Low Pressure usually indicate?
Storms
How stars are classified
Protostar
Lunar Phases
5. What does High Pressure usually indicate?
major layers that make up Earth
The planets
Fair weather
causes of weathering
6. What causes our solar system to orbit the sun?
After a star collapses
storm clouds
Centrifugal force
physical weathering
7. Why does the moon have craters?
formation of soil
Fair weather
Solar eclipse
Because of meteors
8. Water falling to the Earth; cloud droplets become to heavy. They fall - the effect is percipitation (rain - snow - sleet - hail)
Water Cycle
Storms
Collection and runoff
Percipitation
9. Transforms into an adult star - as the star converts its fuel into more massive elements and compounds - it becomes denser
physical weathering
Protostar
rock cycle
Storms
10. Created by the wind - which stirs the ocean's surface over greater distances
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
low pressure
waves
Water Cycle
11. Where are there more extreme and low tides?
igneous mean
Fair weather
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
12. Compression of biological matter (dead organic matter) - beneath layers of sedimentary rock; hydrocarbon compound such as coal - natural gas - or petroleum
Our solar system
Storms
fossil fuels
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
13. Chunks of rocks that strike a planet
Meteors
tide
Neap Tides
aids in weather prediction
14. Barometric Pressure
What is salinity?
aids in weather prediction
The calander
Years
15. When the moon and sun are pulling at perpendicular angles; less extreme tides
The calander
Neap Tides
fossil fuels
Evaporation
16. Divergent - convergiant - and transform
Fair weather
Evaporation
plate boundaries
air pressure
17. Two plates are moving away from each other (Mid - Oceanic Ridge)
tide
Water Cycle
causes of weathering
divergent fault
18. Water enters cracks of rocks - water freezes and expands - causing rocks to break into pieces.
low pressure
Fair weather
physical weathering
Evaporation
19. Changed in form; the rock changes occur due to extreme heat and pressure
metamorphic mean
Ring of Fire
Condensation
Frontal System
20. Caused by warm and cool air colliding
Frontal System
Nebula
Years
storm clouds
21. Are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun on Earth; moon has greater effect on the tides because its closer than the sun
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
Tides
major types of rocks
waves
22. Huge clusters of billions of stars
Galaxies
major types of rocks
Collection and runoff
Our solar system
23. As plates move - strain is placed on the lithosphere. Due to the ridgity of the lithosphere - stress is built up until rocks move or brak - producing a fault. As the rocks break - energy is released in the form of waves. These waves move through the
divergent fault
cause of earthquakes
Tides
Condensation
24. Gas becomes a liquid vapor rises into air and cools. Water vapor (gas) changes into liquid water (clouds)
renewable resources
cause of earthquakes
Years
Condensation
25. Chemical means (acid rain) or physical means (wind - rain - and ice
plate
Spring Tides
causes of weathering
Our solar system
26. Carbonization (carbon dioxide) - Hydration - Oxidation (rust)
Protostar
different causes of chemical weathering
Storms
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
27. Two plates sliding past each other; up and down and back and forth (San Andrea's Fault) transform faults occur where plates do not move under or away from each other
tide
Months
transform fault
Water Cycle
28. Days are based on the Earth's rotation on its axis
The calander
physical weathering
infiltration
igneous mean
29. The Moon is between the Earth and the sun; The moon blocks light from the sun so the sun doesn't reach Earth
Solar eclipse
Fair weather
Water Cycle
formation of soil
30. Based on the Earth's revolution around the sun
The planets
Years
air pressure
hurricanes
31. Two plates colliding. One plate moves under the other plate - usually producing mountains
plate boundaries
convergent fault
Percipitation
Centrifugal force
32. Refers to the amount of dissolved salt in the ocean. salinity level is lower at the mouth of a river due to the flow of fresh water into the saltwater. Areas with high temp. (equator) or low temp. areas (Arctic and Antarctic Oceans) salinity is highe
What is salinity?
different causes of chemical weathering
The planets
major layers that make up Earth
33. Is one that can be reused - regrown - recycled - or is not consumed with use. These are resources that can be conserved. ex. solar energy - hydroelectric and wind power - and geothermal energy
Nebula
renewable resources
Comets
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
34. Sea - floor spreading - the 'puzzle piece' argument and fossil records
Lunar eclipse
storm clouds
major types of rocks
ideas that support Continental drift
35. Chunks off rocks
Seasons
Asteroids
different causes of chemical weathering
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
36. Arctic Air pushes down causing colder water (Pacific Coast) - Tropical Air comes up from the Gulf stream causing warmer water (Coast of Florida)
Nebula
effects ocean currents
formation of soil
Our solar system
37. A nonstop movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
Water Cycle
convergent fault
physical weathering
Asteroids
38. Begin as huge clouds of dust and other particles; they form from the gravitational collapse of a diffuse interstellar cloud
Stars
chemical weathering?
shape of the Milky Way
divergent fault
39. Refers to the vast periods of time over which the Earth changes
Protostar
geological timescale
igneous mean
Frontal System
40. Warm water rises and leaves a low pressure - causing...
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
Asteroids
low pressure
Galaxies
41. Inner Core (solid metal - nickel - and iron) - Outer Core (liquid metal - magnetic force) - Mantle (rock) - Crust (thin layer)
major layers that make up Earth
effects ocean currents
Stars
major types of rocks
42. Area of volcanoes surrounding the Pacific plate. The subduction plate movement causes the production of volcanoes. Westcoast of the US and the East Coast of Asia
air pressure
Ring of Fire
causes of plate movement
different causes of chemical weathering
43. Liquid changes to a gas; caused bysun heating up bodies of water. The liquid water becomes vapor (gas)
theory of plate tectonics
Evaporation
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
ideas that support Continental drift
44. Spiral disk with several long arms; Earth is in one of the arms
shape of the Milky Way
convergent fault
Months
Storms
45. A portion of the rigid crust that moves
plate
Collection and runoff
Storms
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
46. Barometer measures...
Spring Tides
Months
air pressure
Storms
47. The convection current is produced by the heating of the mantle rock - as the rock is heated it moves up toward the lithosphere where it cools and begins to be pulled back toward the center of the Earth by gravity
Protostar
Lunar eclipse
causes of plate movement
Nebula
48. All the Earth's continents at one time were joined as a single 'super continent' called Pangaea Over time the continents drifted apart
ideas that support Continental drift
plate
theory of plate tectonics
hurricanes
49. Based on its mass and other factors it will become either a brown dwarf - white dwarf - neutron star - nova - or a black hole
renewable resources
Eclipses
The planets
After a star collapses
50. Water soaks into the ground. Water collects on Earth's surface. Sometimes it runs off before collecting. The effect is lakes - ponds - oceans - rivers and streams
Collection and runoff
Galaxies
Our solar system
major types of rocks