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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science
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1. 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
waves
Seasons
Years
Milky Way
2. Why does the moon have craters?
Percipitation
cause of earthquakes
waves
Because of meteors
3. What does Low Pressure usually indicate?
Storms
Condensation
What is salinity?
Seasons
4. Two plates are moving away from each other (Mid - Oceanic Ridge)
tide
Neap Tides
What is salinity?
divergent fault
5. Days are based on the Earth's rotation on its axis
Protostar
The calander
Asteroids
igneous mean
6. Occurs when an older oceanic plate is pushed unmder a younger oceanic plate. The shifting plates can cause earthquakes - volcanoes - and mountains
causes of plate movement
Neap Tides
Protostar
subduction
7. Chemical breakdown of minerals
chemical weathering?
The planets
causes of weathering
geological timescale
8. 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
divergent fault
Ring of Fire
transform fault
Lunar eclipse
9. Based on its mass and other factors it will become either a brown dwarf - white dwarf - neutron star - nova - or a black hole
causes of plate movement
storm clouds
After a star collapses
Comets
10. 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
Neap Tides
chemical weathering?
geological timescale
cause of earthquakes
11. Huge clusters of billions of stars
Spring Tides
Galaxies
low pressure
Evaporation
12. Barometric Pressure
aids in weather prediction
metamorphic mean
physical weathering
Centrifugal force
13. Caused by warm and cool air colliding
transform fault
metamorphic mean
Frontal System
Stars
14. Highs want to equalize which causes high winds - causing...
hurricanes
Lunar eclipse
convergent fault
Milky Way
15. Everything that surrounds a star (sun); its made up of numerous bodies which orbit the sun due to centrifugal force
Our solar system
Fair weather
divergent fault
Protostar
16. 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
chemical weathering?
renewable resources
infiltration
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
17. Inner Core (solid metal - nickel - and iron) - Outer Core (liquid metal - magnetic force) - Mantle (rock) - Crust (thin layer)
Fair weather
major layers that make up Earth
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
Eclipses
18. Raising and lowering of the water level
Seasons
ideas that support Continental drift
tide
rock cycle
19. Occur when the shadow of the Earth or Moon is cast onto the other body
Spring Tides
Lunar Phases
Our solar system
Eclipses
20. Topsoil - Subsoil - Parent rock - Bedrock
Storms
formation of soil
Nebula
Collection and runoff
21. Chemical means (acid rain) or physical means (wind - rain - and ice
causes of weathering
Spring Tides
low pressure
Months
22. My very educated mama just served us nachos - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune
physical weathering
The planets
Evaporation
ideas that support Continental drift
23. Are based on the moon's revolution around the Earth
Neap Tides
Collection and runoff
Months
Milky Way
24. Divergent - convergiant - and transform
plate boundaries
effects ocean currents
plate
Stars
25. What galaxy is Earth in?
metamorphic mean
Milky Way
convergent fault
air pressure
26. Arctic Air pushes down causing colder water (Pacific Coast) - Tropical Air comes up from the Gulf stream causing warmer water (Coast of Florida)
How stars are classified
Frontal System
aids in weather prediction
effects ocean currents
27. Gas becomes a liquid vapor rises into air and cools. Water vapor (gas) changes into liquid water (clouds)
fossil fuels
Percipitation
Tides
Condensation
28. 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
What is salinity?
aids in weather prediction
Percipitation
Collection and runoff
29. By the Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram. The HRD illustrates the relationship between the absolute magnitude - luminosity - classification - and effective temp. of stars
waves
How stars are classified
metamorphic mean
Meteors
30. All the Earth's continents at one time were joined as a single 'super continent' called Pangaea Over time the continents drifted apart
theory of plate tectonics
Stars
convergent fault
effects ocean currents
31. A portion of the rigid crust that moves
Months
major layers that make up Earth
plate
Condensation
32. Created by the wind - which stirs the ocean's surface over greater distances
waves
transform fault
Milky Way
How stars are classified
33. Begin as huge clouds of dust and other particles; they form from the gravitational collapse of a diffuse interstellar cloud
tide
Galaxies
Stars
convergent fault
34. 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
Stars
effects ocean currents
ideas that support Continental drift
What is salinity?
35. Based on the Earth's revolution around the sun
tide
causes of plate movement
divergent fault
Years
36. Hot water rises and takes particles with it - causing...
divergent fault
waves
storm clouds
tide
37. Transforms into an adult star - as the star converts its fuel into more massive elements and compounds - it becomes denser
major types of rocks
Protostar
plate
transform fault
38. The Moon is between the Earth and the sun; The moon blocks light from the sun so the sun doesn't reach Earth
Lunar Phases
Fair weather
Milky Way
Solar eclipse
39. As a nebula contracts - the particles collide with colossal force - igniting a nuclear reaction and forming a protostar
physical weathering
divergent fault
What is salinity?
Nebula
40. Spiral disk with several long arms; Earth is in one of the arms
divergent fault
Milky Way
shape of the Milky Way
Eclipses
41. Carbonization (carbon dioxide) - Hydration - Oxidation (rust)
Frontal System
Spring Tides
different causes of chemical weathering
rock cycle
42. When the moon and sun are in alignment; both working to pull on Earth; extreme tides
After a star collapses
theory of plate tectonics
Spring Tides
major types of rocks
43. Where are there more extreme and low tides?
Lunar Phases
Frontal System
different causes of chemical weathering
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
44. When the moon and sun are pulling at perpendicular angles; less extreme tides
Neap Tides
Water Cycle
theory of plate tectonics
Ring of Fire
45. Water falling to the Earth; cloud droplets become to heavy. They fall - the effect is percipitation (rain - snow - sleet - hail)
renewable resources
causes of weathering
tide
Percipitation
46. Compression of biological matter (dead organic matter) - beneath layers of sedimentary rock; hydrocarbon compound such as coal - natural gas - or petroleum
Frontal System
Eclipses
igneous mean
fossil fuels
47. Warm water rises and leaves a low pressure - causing...
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
aids in weather prediction
low pressure
Protostar
48. 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
geological timescale
Meteors
transform fault
shape of the Milky Way
49. Sea - floor spreading - the 'puzzle piece' argument and fossil records
effects ocean currents
major types of rocks
ideas that support Continental drift
Meteors
50. 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
Eclipses
tide
igneous mean
Storms