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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science
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1. Water falling to the Earth; cloud droplets become to heavy. They fall - the effect is percipitation (rain - snow - sleet - hail)
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
The calander
The planets
Percipitation
2. Inner Core (solid metal - nickel - and iron) - Outer Core (liquid metal - magnetic force) - Mantle (rock) - Crust (thin layer)
major layers that make up Earth
physical weathering
Months
chemical weathering?
3. 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
plate
Percipitation
tide
renewable resources
4. 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
Frontal System
Collection and runoff
formation of soil
What is salinity?
5. Chemical means (acid rain) or physical means (wind - rain - and ice
causes of weathering
physical weathering
geological timescale
Collection and runoff
6. A portion of the rigid crust that moves
Nebula
aids in weather prediction
After a star collapses
plate
7. Based on its mass and other factors it will become either a brown dwarf - white dwarf - neutron star - nova - or a black hole
chemical weathering?
geological timescale
After a star collapses
transform fault
8. Two plates are moving away from each other (Mid - Oceanic Ridge)
air pressure
Nebula
major layers that make up Earth
divergent fault
9. 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
transform fault
Meteors
Storms
Asteroids
10. Based on the Earth's revolution around the sun
Lunar Phases
causes of plate movement
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
Years
11. Where are there more extreme and low tides?
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
transform fault
theory of plate tectonics
Months
12. Refers to the vast periods of time over which the Earth changes
Protostar
geological timescale
metamorphic mean
Frontal System
13. 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
Because of meteors
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
causes of plate movement
Nebula
14. What does Low Pressure usually indicate?
chemical weathering?
What is salinity?
Storms
Seasons
15. What causes our solar system to orbit the sun?
plate boundaries
Centrifugal force
subduction
Stars
16. Water that goes into the ground
infiltration
tide
Spring Tides
ideas that support Continental drift
17. Water enters cracks of rocks - water freezes and expands - causing rocks to break into pieces.
convergent fault
rock cycle
physical weathering
Spring Tides
18. Raising and lowering of the water level
major layers that make up Earth
Evaporation
tide
Lunar Phases
19. Everything that surrounds a star (sun); its made up of numerous bodies which orbit the sun due to centrifugal force
Nebula
Our solar system
Spring Tides
effects ocean currents
20. When the moon and sun are pulling at perpendicular angles; less extreme tides
Centrifugal force
infiltration
formation of soil
Neap Tides
21. When the moon and sun are in alignment; both working to pull on Earth; extreme tides
causes of weathering
Because of meteors
Meteors
Spring Tides
22. Created by the wind - which stirs the ocean's surface over greater distances
formation of soil
Collection and runoff
waves
convergent fault
23. By the Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram. The HRD illustrates the relationship between the absolute magnitude - luminosity - classification - and effective temp. of stars
Seasons
How stars are classified
Months
Storms
24. There are similarities of living species and identified fossils found in the continents of today that are the same. Reptiles in South America and Africa. Fossils of the same plants in India and Australia. Unique variety of garden snail found in easte
plate
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
Lunar eclipse
effects ocean currents
25. My very educated mama just served us nachos - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune
The planets
Storms
Water Cycle
causes of weathering
26. The Moon is between the Earth and the sun; The moon blocks light from the sun so the sun doesn't reach Earth
Seasons
effects ocean currents
Solar eclipse
formation of soil
27. 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
Tides
Asteroids
Because of meteors
Galaxies
28. Transforms into an adult star - as the star converts its fuel into more massive elements and compounds - it becomes denser
plate boundaries
Protostar
How stars are classified
Meteors
29. 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
Years
Lunar eclipse
causes of weathering
chemical weathering?
30. Are caused by the Earth's tilt on its axis. As it revolves around the sun - the tilt causes each hemisphere to receive more direct exposure at certain times in its orbit
chemical weathering?
Seasons
transform fault
Protostar
31. Are based on the moon's revolution around the Earth
Solar eclipse
infiltration
Months
Centrifugal force
32. Barometric Pressure
physical weathering
formation of soil
aids in weather prediction
geological timescale
33. From fire (ignite) the formation of igneous rocks occurs when hot molten rock cools or solidifies. Igneous rock can be produced deep in the Earth from magma or on the surface of the Earth from lava
Water Cycle
Percipitation
igneous mean
shape of the Milky Way
34. Sea - floor spreading - the 'puzzle piece' argument and fossil records
Because of meteors
major layers that make up Earth
Collection and runoff
ideas that support Continental drift
35. Huge clusters of billions of stars
Stars
divergent fault
Galaxies
Collection and runoff
36. Movement of the moon around the Earth
Lunar Phases
storm clouds
Collection and runoff
Milky Way
37. Begin as huge clouds of dust and other particles; they form from the gravitational collapse of a diffuse interstellar cloud
Nebula
Stars
Asteroids
Collection and runoff
38. Chemical breakdown of minerals
Condensation
The calander
physical weathering
chemical weathering?
39. Spiral disk with several long arms; Earth is in one of the arms
shape of the Milky Way
plate
Solar eclipse
Collection and runoff
40. Occur when the shadow of the Earth or Moon is cast onto the other body
The calander
Solar eclipse
Frontal System
Eclipses
41. Compression of biological matter (dead organic matter) - beneath layers of sedimentary rock; hydrocarbon compound such as coal - natural gas - or petroleum
Lunar Phases
fossil fuels
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
plate
42. Divergent - convergiant - and transform
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
plate boundaries
low pressure
igneous mean
43. Hot water rises and takes particles with it - causing...
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
Milky Way
storm clouds
geological timescale
44. 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
Seasons
Spring Tides
cause of earthquakes
Tides
45. As a nebula contracts - the particles collide with colossal force - igniting a nuclear reaction and forming a protostar
Nebula
air pressure
Lunar eclipse
Ring of Fire
46. Caused by warm and cool air colliding
Frontal System
transform fault
plate boundaries
air pressure
47. Magma cools to produce igneous rock which can undergo more heat and pressure to become metamorphic rock - On the surface of the Earth - igneous rock which undergos weathering can become sedimentary rock. Sedimentary rock can be buried which can cause
Asteroids
Meteors
rock cycle
Neap Tides
48. Days are based on the Earth's rotation on its axis
Lunar eclipse
The calander
Spring Tides
divergent fault
49. Changed in form; the rock changes occur due to extreme heat and pressure
major layers that make up Earth
Ring of Fire
metamorphic mean
Nebula
50. Carbonization (carbon dioxide) - Hydration - Oxidation (rust)
different causes of chemical weathering
Lunar Phases
Galaxies
Lunar eclipse