Earth Science Final
The surface pressure on Mars is a bit less than ________ of the Earth's surface pressure.
1%
Ocean water deeper than 1000m is the __________
Aphotic Zone
The following feature is a landform of coastal deposition.
Barrier Island
Lunar maria are ___________
Basalt
_______________________________ are particles necessary for the formation of water droplets in clouds.
Condensation Nuclei
______ was one of the first to conclude that the Earth is a planet and all planets orbit the Sun.
Copernicus
The first stage of thunderstorm development is the
Cumulus Stage
Melting of glaciers and/or rainwater at the surface of the ocean can decrease the salinity of the seawater. What happens to the density?
Decreases
The Milankovich Cycle that is related to the varying distance of the Earth's orbit from the Sun is __________________________.
Eccentricity
A Neap Tide has tides that are the highest of high tides and lowest of low tides.
False
Constructing a calendar is made much easier by the face that astronomical events divide evenly into each other (for example there are exactly 12 cycles of the Moon's phases in a year giving us month
False
During a lunar eclipse, the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun.
False
Hurricanes in the Atlantic basin generally move east to west
False
Tropical cyclone rotate around an area of high pressure.
False
Cloudless nights can be _______
Humid
What is the most abundant gas in the outer solar system?
Hydrogen
The movement of a glacier through an area does all of the following EXCEPT: ______________.
Leaves behind no sediment
The _______________________ moves sediment parallel to shore.
Longshore Current
The asteroid belt is located between _________.
Mars and Jupiter
This planet is very similar to the Moon in that it is very heavily catered __________.
Mercury
The Lake Effect produces ____________
More Snow
The word for frozen soil is
Permafrost
At high latitudes (60-90), the ___________ cell is influenced by a high pressure system at the poles and easterly winds.
Polar
The longest wavelengths of visible light appear ______
Red
In the Northern hemisphere the Coriolis effect deflects the wind to the ______
Right
Tropical Cyclone strength is defined by the _____________________________.
Saffir-Simpson Scale
The weather map symbol above with alternating red semi-circles and blue points is representative of a ___________________.
Stationary front
The following are all Kepler's Laws EXCEPT ____________________.
The acceleration of a planet is proportional to net force applied to it
The seasons are caused by
The tilt of the Earth's axis
Indicate the correct answer to complete the following statement based on the information you learned in the Sea Level Rise Activity. The two major causes of sea level rise are _____________________________ and the melting of land based ice.
Thermal Expansion
A rapid decline in the the temperature of ocean water as you descend is a(n)
Thermocline
The largest moon of Saturn is _____________.
Titan
Which of these is not a Galilean moon of Jupiter?
Titan
The layer of the atmosphere with most of the weather is the ___________________.
Troposphere
During a Spring Tide, the Sun, Moon, and Earth are in alignment.
True
Images are much more defined when taken using a space-based telescope because there is no distortion from the Earth's atmosphere.
True
Our sun can be considered "average".
True
Rocks brought back to Earth from the Moon by the Apollo astronauts have helped scientists understand more about our rocky companion.
True
Scientists have identified windblown dust, lava flows and ice caps on Mars.
True
The "hill" of water under a tropical cyclone that is pushed onto land is storm surge.
True
The daily fluctuations of atmospheric conditions is weather, the fluctuation of these same variables over longer time intervals (like years) is climate.
True
The general shape of the graph of the Earth's Carbon Dioxide levels matches the general shape of the graph of the Earth's temperature.
True
When ice sheets on continents melt, sea level rises.
True
In the Western Pacific Ocean, tropical cyclones are called _________________________.
Typhoons
Glacial valleys are _______
U-shaped
The ozone layer absorbs most of the ____________________________ in the atmosphere.
Ultraviolet Radiation
The keeling curve is a graph of carbon dioxide in the the atmosphere, what is the general trend in the Keeling curve since 1960?
Upward
_________________________ results when surface waters are blown away from a coastline and cold, nutrient-rich water rises to the surface.
Upwelling
The planet that is nearest in size and density to Earth is __________.
Venus
El Nino is characterized by ________________ waters in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
Warmer
The horizontal distance between two wave crests is __________________________.
Wave Length
Saturn ____________
Would Float
Hadley cells circulate air ________
between 0 and 30 degrees
The Sun makes energy by ________________________
converting matter into energy
Cyclones rotate ________ around a low-pressure center in the northern hemisphere.
counterclockwise
A Continental tropical air mass (cT) is both ______________________.
hot and dry
The outer planets of our Solar System are ________________.
large in diameter and gaseous
What is the thermohaline conveyor?
the movement of density layers in the ocean
Which of these is NOT a source of solar weather?
the photosphere
The dew point is _________________________________________.
the temperature at which a volume of air becomes saturated with water vapor
