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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science
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1. 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
Lunar eclipse
What is salinity?
subduction
Collection and runoff
2. All the Earth's continents at one time were joined as a single 'super continent' called Pangaea Over time the continents drifted apart
effects ocean currents
theory of plate tectonics
Solar eclipse
chemical weathering?
3. Chunks of rocks and ice
Comets
Ring of Fire
fossil fuels
Galaxies
4. Liquid changes to a gas; caused bysun heating up bodies of water. The liquid water becomes vapor (gas)
causes of weathering
Years
formation of soil
Evaporation
5. Created by the wind - which stirs the ocean's surface over greater distances
waves
storm clouds
Years
Percipitation
6. By the Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram. The HRD illustrates the relationship between the absolute magnitude - luminosity - classification - and effective temp. of stars
Nebula
How stars are classified
Because of meteors
major types of rocks
7. A portion of the rigid crust that moves
Nebula
plate
cause of earthquakes
Seasons
8. What does High Pressure usually indicate?
Fair weather
Storms
plate
Spring Tides
9. Occurs when an older oceanic plate is pushed unmder a younger oceanic plate. The shifting plates can cause earthquakes - volcanoes - and mountains
Because of meteors
subduction
Lunar Phases
Years
10. 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
Meteors
geological timescale
Eclipses
11. Chunks of rocks that strike a planet
transform fault
Spring Tides
Meteors
Lunar eclipse
12. The Moon is between the Earth and the sun; The moon blocks light from the sun so the sun doesn't reach Earth
Spring Tides
Solar eclipse
Comets
Protostar
13. A nonstop movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
Water Cycle
Seasons
Comets
fossil fuels
14. 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
The planets
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
Seasons
infiltration
15. Movement of the moon around the Earth
plate
plate boundaries
air pressure
Lunar Phases
16. Are based on the moon's revolution around the Earth
Months
air pressure
Eclipses
Protostar
17. Occur when the shadow of the Earth or Moon is cast onto the other body
Eclipses
Percipitation
The calander
plate
18. Hot water rises and takes particles with it - causing...
storm clouds
Solar eclipse
Percipitation
Eclipses
19. 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
Stars
Years
infiltration
renewable resources
20. Based on its mass and other factors it will become either a brown dwarf - white dwarf - neutron star - nova - or a black hole
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
After a star collapses
The planets
Ring of Fire
21. Huge clusters of billions of stars
Evaporation
low pressure
convergent fault
Galaxies
22. Why does the moon have craters?
ideas that support Continental drift
Storms
rock cycle
Because of meteors
23. 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
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
divergent fault
Percipitation
convergent fault
24. Begin as huge clouds of dust and other particles; they form from the gravitational collapse of a diffuse interstellar cloud
Stars
Spring Tides
Ring of Fire
Lunar Phases
25. Water falling to the Earth; cloud droplets become to heavy. They fall - the effect is percipitation (rain - snow - sleet - hail)
Percipitation
plate
Solar eclipse
Our solar system
26. 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
aids in weather prediction
transform fault
Fair weather
Asteroids
27. Transforms into an adult star - as the star converts its fuel into more massive elements and compounds - it becomes denser
effects ocean currents
Protostar
How stars are classified
plate
28. Topsoil - Subsoil - Parent rock - Bedrock
formation of soil
low pressure
cause of earthquakes
fossil fuels
29. Inner Core (solid metal - nickel - and iron) - Outer Core (liquid metal - magnetic force) - Mantle (rock) - Crust (thin layer)
After a star collapses
formation of soil
major layers that make up Earth
renewable resources
30. 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
Galaxies
rock cycle
cause of earthquakes
low pressure
31. 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
causes of plate movement
Because of meteors
Tides
different causes of chemical weathering
32. Chemical means (acid rain) or physical means (wind - rain - and ice
transform fault
Comets
causes of weathering
Solar eclipse
33. When the moon and sun are in alignment; both working to pull on Earth; extreme tides
Condensation
After a star collapses
Spring Tides
renewable resources
34. Raising and lowering of the water level
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
tide
Solar eclipse
Asteroids
35. Barometer measures...
metamorphic mean
Lunar eclipse
air pressure
Stars
36. Carbonization (carbon dioxide) - Hydration - Oxidation (rust)
different causes of chemical weathering
metamorphic mean
Condensation
How stars are classified
37. Changed in form; the rock changes occur due to extreme heat and pressure
metamorphic mean
Centrifugal force
plate boundaries
plate
38. Divergent - convergiant - and transform
shape of the Milky Way
plate boundaries
Eclipses
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
39. Igneous (burning molten rock magma turns to lava when it reaches the surface - hardens very quickly causing imperfections) ex. granite - Metamorphic (baked by pressure underground) ex. diamond (pure) - Sedimentary - ex. sand - sandstone
renewable resources
metamorphic mean
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
major types of rocks
40. What does Low Pressure usually indicate?
Storms
renewable resources
hurricanes
After a star collapses
41. Warm water rises and leaves a low pressure - causing...
Solar eclipse
How stars are classified
low pressure
cause of earthquakes
42. Caused by warm and cool air colliding
subduction
Seasons
Lunar eclipse
Frontal System
43. 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
Water Cycle
causes of plate movement
geological timescale
formation of soil
44. What galaxy is Earth in?
Milky Way
plate boundaries
convergent fault
igneous mean
45. 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
waves
transform fault
Percipitation
46. Water enters cracks of rocks - water freezes and expands - causing rocks to break into pieces.
physical weathering
geological timescale
The calander
Spring Tides
47. Based on the Earth's revolution around the sun
Neap Tides
Collection and runoff
Years
storm clouds
48. 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
fossil fuels
Lunar Phases
Lunar eclipse
transform fault
49. Sea - floor spreading - the 'puzzle piece' argument and fossil records
theory of plate tectonics
Because of meteors
Stars
ideas that support Continental drift
50. Chemical breakdown of minerals
physical weathering
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
Milky Way
chemical weathering?