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CSET Multiple Subject: Earth Science
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1. Where are there more extreme and low tides?
Collection and runoff
Solar eclipse
air pressure
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
2. Arctic Air pushes down causing colder water (Pacific Coast) - Tropical Air comes up from the Gulf stream causing warmer water (Coast of Florida)
metamorphic mean
causes of plate movement
transform fault
effects ocean currents
3. Raising and lowering of the water level
formation of soil
theory of plate tectonics
tide
Spring Tides
4. What does High Pressure usually indicate?
plate
Fair weather
What is salinity?
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
5. 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
cause of earthquakes
Lunar eclipse
Fair weather
6. 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
storm clouds
Evaporation
Because of meteors
7. When the moon and sun are in alignment; both working to pull on Earth; extreme tides
How stars are classified
formation of soil
Spring Tides
Nebula
8. A portion of the rigid crust that moves
Neap Tides
plate
Milky Way
Solar eclipse
9. Highs want to equalize which causes high winds - causing...
tide
Ring of Fire
hurricanes
convergent fault
10. My very educated mama just served us nachos - Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune
rock cycle
hurricanes
The planets
ideas that support Continental drift
11. 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
Collection and runoff
Condensation
renewable resources
divergent fault
12. Barometric Pressure
waves
Lunar Phases
Comets
aids in weather prediction
13. When the moon and sun are pulling at perpendicular angles; less extreme tides
Neap Tides
causes of plate movement
aids in weather prediction
rock cycle
14. Based on the Earth's revolution around the sun
Asteroids
transform fault
shape of the Milky Way
Years
15. Water enters cracks of rocks - water freezes and expands - causing rocks to break into pieces.
major layers that make up Earth
physical weathering
geological timescale
Condensation
16. Chunks of rocks and ice
Comets
Lunar eclipse
metamorphic mean
renewable resources
17. Why does the moon have craters?
The calander
Because of meteors
major types of rocks
Solar eclipse
18. A nonstop movement of water between Earth's surface and the air
Water Cycle
waves
Ring of Fire
Months
19. 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
Evaporation
What is salinity?
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
After a star collapses
20. What causes our solar system to orbit the sun?
Percipitation
Eclipses
How stars are classified
Centrifugal force
21. 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
geological timescale
cause of earthquakes
formation of soil
Storms
22. Refers to the vast periods of time over which the Earth changes
geological timescale
The planets
What is salinity?
convergent fault
23. Water that goes into the ground
Percipitation
Evaporation
infiltration
shape of the Milky Way
24. Chemical breakdown of minerals
chemical weathering?
Milky Way
theory of plate tectonics
Spring Tides
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
cause of earthquakes
causes of plate movement
Spring Tides
Lunar eclipse
26. Divergent - convergiant - and transform
Galaxies
The calander
Ring of Fire
plate boundaries
27. What galaxy is Earth in?
Milky Way
major types of rocks
storm clouds
rock cycle
28. Hot water rises and takes particles with it - causing...
storm clouds
Tides
geological timescale
Comets
29. Occurs when an older oceanic plate is pushed unmder a younger oceanic plate. The shifting plates can cause earthquakes - volcanoes - and mountains
subduction
cause of earthquakes
physical weathering
Neap Tides
30. Chemical means (acid rain) or physical means (wind - rain - and ice
different causes of chemical weathering
physical weathering
chemical weathering?
causes of weathering
31. Chunks of rocks that strike a planet
divergent fault
fossil fuels
Meteors
Storms
32. Sea - floor spreading - the 'puzzle piece' argument and fossil records
ideas that support Continental drift
physical weathering
Condensation
Stars
33. Compression of biological matter (dead organic matter) - beneath layers of sedimentary rock; hydrocarbon compound such as coal - natural gas - or petroleum
fossil fuels
Meteors
Neap Tides
plate
34. Huge clusters of billions of stars
theory of plate tectonics
Galaxies
chemical weathering?
Ring of Fire
35. Changed in form; the rock changes occur due to extreme heat and pressure
Lunar Phases
Frontal System
low pressure
metamorphic mean
36. Days are based on the Earth's rotation on its axis
The planets
geological timescale
rock cycle
The calander
37. 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
Spring Tides
Solar eclipse
major types of rocks
Frontal System
38. 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
Seasons
plate boundaries
storm clouds
Spring Tides
39. Are based on the moon's revolution around the Earth
formation of soil
causes of plate movement
Years
Months
40. Water falling to the Earth; cloud droplets become to heavy. They fall - the effect is percipitation (rain - snow - sleet - hail)
metamorphic mean
Percipitation
Solar eclipse
Galaxies
41. Spiral disk with several long arms; Earth is in one of the arms
shape of the Milky Way
Galaxies
causes of weathering
formation of soil
42. Two plates colliding. One plate moves under the other plate - usually producing mountains
Collection and runoff
divergent fault
Ring of Fire
convergent fault
43. 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
Solar eclipse
formation of soil
Collection and runoff
igneous mean
44. 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
Years
effects ocean currents
rock cycle
Isolated bodies of water - inlet areas of land
45. Based on its mass and other factors it will become either a brown dwarf - white dwarf - neutron star - nova - or a black hole
chemical weathering?
hurricanes
different causes of chemical weathering
After a star collapses
46. 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
air pressure
Water Cycle
transform fault
Lunar Phases
47. Inner Core (solid metal - nickel - and iron) - Outer Core (liquid metal - magnetic force) - Mantle (rock) - Crust (thin layer)
Tides
major layers that make up Earth
Water Cycle
The planets
48. Barometer measures...
major types of rocks
physical weathering
air pressure
evidence that supports the Pangaea thory
49. The Moon is between the Earth and the sun; The moon blocks light from the sun so the sun doesn't reach Earth
Our solar system
tide
Solar eclipse
Nebula
50. All the Earth's continents at one time were joined as a single 'super continent' called Pangaea Over time the continents drifted apart
plate boundaries
theory of plate tectonics
fossil fuels
rock cycle