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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science
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1. 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
After a star collapses
Evaporation
subduction
2. What does High Pressure usually indicate?
Fair weather
Asteroids
Percipitation
Our solar system
3. A portion of the rigid crust that moves
What is salinity?
effects ocean currents
Storms
plate
4. 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
Lunar eclipse
Tides
chemical weathering?
Water Cycle
5. Carbonization (carbon dioxide) - Hydration - Oxidation (rust)
fossil fuels
different causes of chemical weathering
Evaporation
Stars
6. Water enters cracks of rocks - water freezes and expands - causing rocks to break into pieces.
physical weathering
Frontal System
chemical weathering?
low pressure
7. Two plates are moving away from each other (Mid - Oceanic Ridge)
Months
Frontal System
divergent fault
Seasons
8. What causes our solar system to orbit the sun?
Months
Comets
Centrifugal force
Seasons
9. Gas becomes a liquid vapor rises into air and cools. Water vapor (gas) changes into liquid water (clouds)
effects ocean currents
Months
Condensation
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
10. Spiral disk with several long arms; Earth is in one of the arms
shape of the Milky Way
divergent fault
metamorphic mean
cause of earthquakes
11. Are based on the moon's revolution around the Earth
Months
Meteors
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
Galaxies
12. Why does the moon have craters?
effects ocean currents
physical weathering
formation of soil
Because of meteors
13. Movement of the moon around the Earth
Water Cycle
Evaporation
Lunar Phases
ideas that support Continental drift
14. Based on the Earth's revolution around the sun
causes of plate movement
Years
chemical weathering?
major layers that make up Earth
15. Where are there more extreme and low tides?
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
Percipitation
Solar eclipse
metamorphic mean
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
ideas that support Continental drift
Ring of Fire
renewable resources
Eclipses
17. 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
different causes of chemical weathering
Neap Tides
major types of rocks
Stars
18. 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
metamorphic mean
chemical weathering?
Asteroids
igneous mean
19. Two plates colliding. One plate moves under the other plate - usually producing mountains
Storms
Evaporation
convergent fault
tide
20. By the Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram. The HRD illustrates the relationship between the absolute magnitude - luminosity - classification - and effective temp. of stars
Stars
Condensation
How stars are classified
Fair weather
21. Caused by warm and cool air colliding
Months
Protostar
After a star collapses
Frontal System
22. Raising and lowering of the water level
physical weathering
tide
Galaxies
Evaporation
23. 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
causes of plate movement
Months
metamorphic mean
Ring of Fire
24. Transforms into an adult star - as the star converts its fuel into more massive elements and compounds - it becomes denser
formation of soil
effects ocean currents
Protostar
ideas that support Continental drift
25. Sea - floor spreading - the 'puzzle piece' argument and fossil records
metamorphic mean
ideas that support Continental drift
Comets
The calander
26. 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
causes of plate movement
chemical weathering?
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
physical weathering
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
Spring Tides
air pressure
Collection and runoff
Lunar eclipse
28. When the moon and sun are pulling at perpendicular angles; less extreme tides
Fair weather
Frontal System
Lunar eclipse
Neap Tides
29. Compression of biological matter (dead organic matter) - beneath layers of sedimentary rock; hydrocarbon compound such as coal - natural gas - or petroleum
formation of soil
fossil fuels
Solar eclipse
major types of rocks
30. As a nebula contracts - the particles collide with colossal force - igniting a nuclear reaction and forming a protostar
geological timescale
infiltration
Nebula
transform fault
31. 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
major types of rocks
What is salinity?
infiltration
theory of plate tectonics
32. What galaxy is Earth in?
Milky Way
convergent fault
theory of plate tectonics
different causes of chemical weathering
33. Barometric Pressure
Lunar eclipse
Seasons
infiltration
aids in weather prediction
34. Divergent - convergiant - and transform
Water Cycle
plate boundaries
fossil fuels
Months
35. Based on its mass and other factors it will become either a brown dwarf - white dwarf - neutron star - nova - or a black hole
The calander
After a star collapses
chemical weathering?
Water Cycle
36. Warm water rises and leaves a low pressure - causing...
Storms
low pressure
fossil fuels
igneous mean
37. Chunks of rocks that strike a planet
chemical weathering?
What is salinity?
effects ocean currents
Meteors
38. Begin as huge clouds of dust and other particles; they form from the gravitational collapse of a diffuse interstellar cloud
plate
physical weathering
Stars
transform fault
39. Chemical breakdown of minerals
Years
ideas that support Continental drift
chemical weathering?
Centrifugal force
40. 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
formation of soil
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
Milky Way
hurricanes
41. 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
What is salinity?
Collection and runoff
rock cycle
Neap Tides
42. 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
Asteroids
Seasons
effects ocean currents
Because of meteors
43. Inner Core (solid metal - nickel - and iron) - Outer Core (liquid metal - magnetic force) - Mantle (rock) - Crust (thin layer)
physical weathering
fossil fuels
major layers that make up Earth
The planets
44. Created by the wind - which stirs the ocean's surface over greater distances
Meteors
waves
Solar eclipse
Galaxies
45. Huge clusters of billions of stars
The planets
air pressure
Galaxies
Protostar
46. A nonstop movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
rock cycle
Lunar Phases
cause of earthquakes
Water Cycle
47. Water that goes into the ground
Nebula
causes of plate movement
infiltration
ideas that support Continental drift
48. The Moon is between the Earth and the sun; The moon blocks light from the sun so the sun doesn't reach Earth
Protostar
Years
Evaporation
Solar eclipse
49. Barometer measures...
air pressure
Protostar
Tides
Seasons
50. Water falling to the Earth; cloud droplets become to heavy. They fall - the effect is percipitation (rain - snow - sleet - hail)
metamorphic mean
Storms
Protostar
Percipitation