CSET Earth
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1. The transformation of water vapor to liquid water droplets in the air - producing clouds and fog

2. Improved land - use practices can limit erosion by using techniques such as...

3. An individual weighing 200 lbs on Earth would weigh more on a _______________ - Weight is a function of gravity

4. The spectra of distant objects display a red shift - which is interpreted as meaning that they are rapidly receding from us - This apparent expansion of the universe has given rise to the big bang theory of cosmology - in which one primeval mass expl

5. Forms over land and is associated with dry air

6. The runoff produced by melting snow

7. Continental polar (dry - cold air)

8. Two types of mountains are formed - depending on how the rock reacts to the tectonic forces

9. The science that describes and interprets the earth Fields: - Geomorphology (land forms) - Petrology (rocks) - Stratigraphy (layered rocks) - Paleontology (fossils)

10. Occur when two plates slip past each other - Such faults are generally moderate and are relatively shallow Example: The San Andreas Fault

11. The process of chemical or physical breakdown of earth rocks - soils - and their minerals

12. Sun heats water in the oceans - Water evaporates as vapor into the air - Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor...- Over time - the water reenters the ocean - where the water cycle started

13. Temperature - pressure - and composition

14. The earth is believed to be about ___ billion years old

15. Characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the eastern equatorial Pacific - warm current of nutrient - poor tropical water - heated by its eastward passage in the Equatorial Current - replaces the cold - nutrient - rich surface water of th

16. The transformation of water from liquid to gas phases as it moves from the ground or bodies of water into the overlying atmosphere

17. Spiral - elliptical - and irregular form are speckled throughout the visible universe - Largest telescope has detected galaxies to its limit of several billion light - years

18. The major mountains tend to occur in __________ - indicating tectonic plate boundaries and activity

19. On maps - the characteristics of an air mass are represented by two letters: The lowercase letter represents ________ - and the uppercase letter represents temperature

20. The variety of ways by which water moves across the land - This includes both surface runoff and channel runoff - As it flows - the water may percolate into the ground - evaporate into the air - become stored in lakes or reservoirs - or be extracted

21. Travels in an orbit that is slightly elliptical (oval) - and so the distance from the sun ranges from 91.5 to 94.5 million miles - Its daily rotation deforms the earth to a flattened spheroid - with a polar radius slightly less than the equatorial ra

22. The breakdown of rocks - soils and minerals through direct contact with atmospheric conditions such as heat - water - ice - and pressure

23. The atmosphere is a __________ - and so small changes to one part of the system can grow to have large effects on the system as a whole - This makes it difficult to accurately predict weather more than a few days in advance

24. There are approx. _____ days between each lunar cycle

25. Takes approx. seven and a half earth months to revolve around the sun - Takes approx. eight earth months to rotate on its axis - a day on ________ is longer than a year