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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science
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1. 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
Ring of Fire
Nebula
hurricanes
effects ocean currents
2. Warm water rises and leaves a low pressure - causing...
What is salinity?
Asteroids
low pressure
plate
3. 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
formation of soil
aids in weather prediction
What is salinity?
Galaxies
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
ideas that support Continental drift
Collection and runoff
What is salinity?
chemical weathering?
5. What does High Pressure usually indicate?
Fair weather
Solar eclipse
Collection and runoff
effects ocean currents
6. As a nebula contracts - the particles collide with colossal force - igniting a nuclear reaction and forming a protostar
shape of the Milky Way
renewable resources
Ring of Fire
Nebula
7. 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
waves
cause of earthquakes
causes of plate movement
Comets
8. Liquid changes to a gas; caused bysun heating up bodies of water. The liquid water becomes vapor (gas)
fossil fuels
Evaporation
Years
physical weathering
9. Are based on the moon's revolution around the Earth
Frontal System
Months
Nebula
Our solar system
10. When the moon and sun are pulling at perpendicular angles; less extreme tides
What is salinity?
Neap Tides
metamorphic mean
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
11. Water falling to the Earth; cloud droplets become to heavy. They fall - the effect is percipitation (rain - snow - sleet - hail)
physical weathering
Years
Spring Tides
Percipitation
12. By the Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram. The HRD illustrates the relationship between the absolute magnitude - luminosity - classification - and effective temp. of stars
How stars are classified
Eclipses
Fair weather
Frontal System
13. 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
rock cycle
plate boundaries
low pressure
Milky Way
14. 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
tide
igneous mean
shape of the Milky Way
15. Inner Core (solid metal - nickel - and iron) - Outer Core (liquid metal - magnetic force) - Mantle (rock) - Crust (thin layer)
Storms
cause of earthquakes
major layers that make up Earth
aids in weather prediction
16. 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
igneous mean
formation of soil
theory of plate tectonics
17. A nonstop movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
Water Cycle
Lunar Phases
Evaporation
Percipitation
18. Arctic Air pushes down causing colder water (Pacific Coast) - Tropical Air comes up from the Gulf stream causing warmer water (Coast of Florida)
igneous mean
Comets
effects ocean currents
Nebula
19. Chemical breakdown of minerals
chemical weathering?
Neap Tides
Percipitation
ideas that support Continental drift
20. 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
plate boundaries
Tides
Condensation
Fair weather
21. Barometric Pressure
air pressure
Solar eclipse
Condensation
aids in weather prediction
22. Chemical means (acid rain) or physical means (wind - rain - and ice
infiltration
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
physical weathering
causes of weathering
23. What causes our solar system to orbit the sun?
Solar eclipse
plate boundaries
Centrifugal force
Years
24. Occurs when an older oceanic plate is pushed unmder a younger oceanic plate. The shifting plates can cause earthquakes - volcanoes - and mountains
The calander
subduction
Lunar Phases
ideas that support Continental drift
25. 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
The planets
subduction
causes of plate movement
Comets
26. Chunks of rocks that strike a planet
fossil fuels
Meteors
physical weathering
waves
27. Raising and lowering of the water level
metamorphic mean
Collection and runoff
causes of weathering
tide
28. 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
Lunar eclipse
major layers that make up Earth
Galaxies
waves
29. When the moon and sun are in alignment; both working to pull on Earth; extreme tides
Collection and runoff
Galaxies
Meteors
Spring Tides
30. Sea - floor spreading - the 'puzzle piece' argument and fossil records
theory of plate tectonics
Evaporation
rock cycle
ideas that support Continental drift
31. Based on its mass and other factors it will become either a brown dwarf - white dwarf - neutron star - nova - or a black hole
Lunar Phases
Months
physical weathering
After a star collapses
32. Barometer measures...
Collection and runoff
air pressure
Evaporation
Tides
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
Meteors
infiltration
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
renewable resources
34. What galaxy is Earth in?
Milky Way
Comets
shape of the Milky Way
Collection and runoff
35. Chunks of rocks and ice
plate boundaries
Frontal System
geological timescale
Comets
36. Begin as huge clouds of dust and other particles; they form from the gravitational collapse of a diffuse interstellar cloud
Years
metamorphic mean
Stars
causes of plate movement
37. Topsoil - Subsoil - Parent rock - Bedrock
Nebula
formation of soil
Collection and runoff
plate boundaries
38. Water enters cracks of rocks - water freezes and expands - causing rocks to break into pieces.
physical weathering
plate boundaries
renewable resources
Asteroids
39. Why does the moon have craters?
Because of meteors
Comets
infiltration
Evaporation
40. Caused by warm and cool air colliding
Seasons
Frontal System
How stars are classified
low pressure
41. What does Low Pressure usually indicate?
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
different causes of chemical weathering
Storms
Spring Tides
42. Movement of the moon around the Earth
Lunar Phases
Fair weather
Percipitation
convergent fault
43. Occur when the shadow of the Earth or Moon is cast onto the other body
causes of plate movement
Eclipses
Milky Way
Neap Tides
44. Carbonization (carbon dioxide) - Hydration - Oxidation (rust)
Storms
Tides
different causes of chemical weathering
tide
45. Days are based on the Earth's rotation on its axis
tide
The calander
Spring Tides
aids in weather prediction
46. Based on the Earth's revolution around the sun
Years
plate boundaries
hurricanes
low pressure
47. Everything that surrounds a star (sun); its made up of numerous bodies which orbit the sun due to centrifugal force
Percipitation
Our solar system
igneous mean
theory of plate tectonics
48. 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
theory of plate tectonics
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
Protostar
fossil fuels
49. Spiral disk with several long arms; Earth is in one of the arms
shape of the Milky Way
Years
What is salinity?
Our solar system
50. Refers to the vast periods of time over which the Earth changes
causes of weathering
Comets
geological timescale
chemical weathering?