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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Chunks of rocks that strike a planet






2. Barometer measures...






3. Water falling to the Earth; cloud droplets become to heavy. They fall - the effect is percipitation (rain - snow - sleet - hail)






4. My very educated mama just served us nachos - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune






5. What does Low Pressure usually indicate?






6. Created by the wind - which stirs the ocean's surface over greater distances






7. What does High Pressure usually indicate?






8. Occur when the shadow of the Earth or Moon is cast onto the other body






9. Sea - floor spreading - the 'puzzle piece' argument and fossil records






10. What causes our solar system to orbit the sun?






11. Raising and lowering of the water level






12. Liquid changes to a gas; caused bysun heating up bodies of water. The liquid water becomes vapor (gas)






13. 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






14. Arctic Air pushes down causing colder water (Pacific Coast) - Tropical Air comes up from the Gulf stream causing warmer water (Coast of Florida)






15. Chunks off rocks






16. Movement of the moon around the Earth






17. Topsoil - Subsoil - Parent rock - Bedrock






18. All the Earth's continents at one time were joined as a single 'super continent' called Pangaea Over time the continents drifted apart






19. Based on its mass and other factors it will become either a brown dwarf - white dwarf - neutron star - nova - or a black hole






20. Chemical means (acid rain) or physical means (wind - rain - and ice






21. As a nebula contracts - the particles collide with colossal force - igniting a nuclear reaction and forming a protostar






22. Two plates colliding. One plate moves under the other plate - usually producing mountains






23. Chemical breakdown of minerals






24. When the moon and sun are pulling at perpendicular angles; less extreme tides






25. When the moon and sun are in alignment; both working to pull on Earth; extreme tides






26. Water that goes into the ground






27. 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






28. Highs want to equalize which causes high winds - causing...






29. A portion of the rigid crust that moves






30. What galaxy is Earth in?






31. Days are based on the Earth's rotation on its axis






32. 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






33. Occurs when an older oceanic plate is pushed unmder a younger oceanic plate. The shifting plates can cause earthquakes - volcanoes - and mountains






34. Changed in form; the rock changes occur due to extreme heat and pressure






35. Divergent - convergiant - and transform






36. The Moon is between the Earth and the sun; The moon blocks light from the sun so the sun doesn't reach Earth






37. 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






38. By the Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram. The HRD illustrates the relationship between the absolute magnitude - luminosity - classification - and effective temp. of stars






39. Gas becomes a liquid vapor rises into air and cools. Water vapor (gas) changes into liquid water (clouds)






40. 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






41. 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






42. Compression of biological matter (dead organic matter) - beneath layers of sedimentary rock; hydrocarbon compound such as coal - natural gas - or petroleum






43. Warm water rises and leaves a low pressure - causing...






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






45. Spiral disk with several long arms; Earth is in one of the arms






46. Water enters cracks of rocks - water freezes and expands - causing rocks to break into pieces.






47. Transforms into an adult star - as the star converts its fuel into more massive elements and compounds - it becomes denser






48. Based on the Earth's revolution around the sun






49. Begin as huge clouds of dust and other particles; they form from the gravitational collapse of a diffuse interstellar cloud






50. 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