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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Caused by warm and cool air colliding






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






3. Hot water rises and takes particles with it - causing...






4. Raising and lowering of the water level






5. Chunks of rocks that strike a planet






6. 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






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






8. Inner Core (solid metal - nickel - and iron) - Outer Core (liquid metal - magnetic force) - Mantle (rock) - Crust (thin layer)






9. Two plates are moving away from each other (Mid - Oceanic Ridge)






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






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






12. Huge clusters of billions of stars






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






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






15. A nonstop movement of water between Earth's surface and the air






16. What does High Pressure usually indicate?






17. Water that goes into the ground






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






25. A portion of the rigid crust that moves






26. Refers to the vast periods of time over which the Earth changes






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






31. Carbonization (carbon dioxide) - Hydration - Oxidation (rust)






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






33. 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






34. Topsoil - Subsoil - Parent rock - Bedrock






35. Barometric Pressure






36. Where are there more extreme and low tides?






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






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






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






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






42. Divergent - convergiant - and transform






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






44. Chunks of rocks and ice






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






46. Everything that surrounds a star (sun); its made up of numerous bodies which orbit the sun due to centrifugal force






47. Movement of the moon around the Earth






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






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






50. 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