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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science
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1. Occur when the shadow of the Earth or Moon is cast onto the other body
Storms
causes of plate movement
plate
Eclipses
2. 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
After a star collapses
fossil fuels
Neap Tides
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
What is salinity?
igneous mean
How stars are classified
Neap Tides
4. Occurs when an older oceanic plate is pushed unmder a younger oceanic plate. The shifting plates can cause earthquakes - volcanoes - and mountains
subduction
causes of plate movement
Protostar
Condensation
5. Days are based on the Earth's rotation on its axis
hurricanes
The calander
Centrifugal force
Eclipses
6. Water enters cracks of rocks - water freezes and expands - causing rocks to break into pieces.
Tides
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
physical weathering
causes of plate movement
7. 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
Spring Tides
Ring of Fire
Collection and runoff
Evaporation
8. What does Low Pressure usually indicate?
Stars
The calander
Storms
divergent fault
9. 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
air pressure
theory of plate tectonics
causes of plate movement
Percipitation
10. 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
metamorphic mean
subduction
The calander
11. Two plates colliding. One plate moves under the other plate - usually producing mountains
convergent fault
What is salinity?
Seasons
air pressure
12. 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
aids in weather prediction
Water Cycle
Seasons
13. Caused by warm and cool air colliding
storm clouds
Frontal System
Galaxies
The calander
14. Are based on the moon's revolution around the Earth
cause of earthquakes
different causes of chemical weathering
plate
Months
15. When the moon and sun are pulling at perpendicular angles; less extreme tides
renewable resources
different causes of chemical weathering
Meteors
Neap Tides
16. 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
Months
hurricanes
cause of earthquakes
How stars are classified
17. Divergent - convergiant - and transform
Fair weather
Because of meteors
igneous mean
plate boundaries
18. Movement of the moon around the Earth
Tides
Lunar Phases
transform fault
Milky Way
19. Warm water rises and leaves a low pressure - causing...
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
Nebula
low pressure
infiltration
20. Where are there more extreme and low tides?
Seasons
Protostar
fossil fuels
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
21. Created by the wind - which stirs the ocean's surface over greater distances
plate
Tides
The planets
waves
22. The Moon is between the Earth and the sun; The moon blocks light from the sun so the sun doesn't reach Earth
storm clouds
theory of plate tectonics
Solar eclipse
Lunar eclipse
23. Chunks off rocks
Asteroids
transform fault
theory of plate tectonics
Condensation
24. Raising and lowering of the water level
Galaxies
storm clouds
The calander
tide
25. By the Hertzsprung - Russell Diagram. The HRD illustrates the relationship between the absolute magnitude - luminosity - classification - and effective temp. of stars
After a star collapses
Our solar system
How stars are classified
Neap Tides
26. Topsoil - Subsoil - Parent rock - Bedrock
formation of soil
chemical weathering?
divergent fault
Water Cycle
27. Barometric Pressure
Months
What is salinity?
aids in weather prediction
Spring Tides
28. My very educated mama just served us nachos - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune
Nebula
Months
waves
The planets
29. A nonstop movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
Collection and runoff
effects ocean currents
metamorphic mean
Water Cycle
30. Chemical means (acid rain) or physical means (wind - rain - and ice
After a star collapses
ideas that support Continental drift
low pressure
causes of weathering
31. 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
After a star collapses
subduction
Lunar eclipse
plate
32. As a nebula contracts - the particles collide with colossal force - igniting a nuclear reaction and forming a protostar
shape of the Milky Way
igneous mean
storm clouds
Nebula
33. Arctic Air pushes down causing colder water (Pacific Coast) - Tropical Air comes up from the Gulf stream causing warmer water (Coast of Florida)
The calander
formation of soil
effects ocean currents
plate boundaries
34. 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
fossil fuels
The planets
Frontal System
Tides
35. Chemical breakdown of minerals
subduction
chemical weathering?
formation of soil
Meteors
36. All the Earth's continents at one time were joined as a single 'super continent' called Pangaea Over time the continents drifted apart
major layers that make up Earth
Because of meteors
theory of plate tectonics
Frontal System
37. Gas becomes a liquid vapor rises into air and cools. Water vapor (gas) changes into liquid water (clouds)
geological timescale
fossil fuels
Because of meteors
Condensation
38. Hot water rises and takes particles with it - causing...
plate
storm clouds
fossil fuels
Months
39. Carbonization (carbon dioxide) - Hydration - Oxidation (rust)
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
Lunar eclipse
How stars are classified
different causes of chemical weathering
40. Refers to the vast periods of time over which the Earth changes
geological timescale
igneous mean
ideas that support Continental drift
Protostar
41. Chunks of rocks and ice
Fair weather
Comets
Water Cycle
chemical weathering?
42. Spiral disk with several long arms; Earth is in one of the arms
shape of the Milky Way
Years
renewable resources
formation of soil
43. What does High Pressure usually indicate?
Fair weather
infiltration
igneous mean
Water Cycle
44. Water that goes into the ground
ideas that support Continental drift
divergent fault
fossil fuels
infiltration
45. 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
renewable resources
Comets
transform fault
rock cycle
46. Huge clusters of billions of stars
Spring Tides
Years
Protostar
Galaxies
47. What galaxy is Earth in?
The planets
metamorphic mean
Milky Way
transform fault
48. A portion of the rigid crust that moves
Frontal System
Months
tide
plate
49. Compression of biological matter (dead organic matter) - beneath layers of sedimentary rock; hydrocarbon compound such as coal - natural gas - or petroleum
theory of plate tectonics
fossil fuels
divergent fault
plate
50. When the moon and sun are in alignment; both working to pull on Earth; extreme tides
major layers that make up Earth
plate
Spring Tides
causes of plate movement