Earth Science NCFE Review

What has the greatest influence on Earth's tides?

The length of the day is based on ___.

What is true about land, as compared to water?

The number and variety of organisms in a given area at a specific period of time is called ___.

What is the most likely air mass system coming from Canada?

An organism's unique survival strategy or role within a particular environment is called its __

The water table is found at the boundary between ___.

Which type of wind system is found between 0 and 30 degrees north latitude?

Amount of dissolved salt in water is called ___.

What is another name for a primary consumer?

What is responsible for continental drift?

A large area characterized by its climate and plants and animals that live there is called a __

Differences in elevation are best shown using a ____.

Cold, dry air is associated with which type of air mass?

Which of the following contains a list of ALL renewable resources?

Which is not an agent of chemical weathering?

On the map of Contour Island, what is the contour interval?

A stream that is difficult to see-through is said to have high ____.

On what day is the Earth at Perihelion?

What are the two major sources of energy that power the Earth?

What type of cloud can become a "super cell" producing large thunderstorms?

What is the optimum climate for soil production and efficiency?

Resources that exist in limited amounts or is used faster than it is replaced are called ___.

The exact spot on the surface where an earthquake is the most intense is know as the ___.

At what point is the Earth farthest from the Sun?

This biome contains trees that lose its leaves, therefore enriching the topsoil.

What is the change in orientation of our poles, shifting the seasons?

What is formed at a divergent oceanic-oceanic boundary?

What happens most often at divergent boundaries?

What do we call water that contains elements of both freshwater and saltwater?

Which weather change is most likely indicated by rapidly falling air pressure?

Large materials, such as gravel, that are carried along the bottom of a stream are called ___.

Which is the best method of how the atmosphere is warmed?

What is used to help map the features of the ocean floor?

Which soil texture has the smallest particle size?

The interaction of all of Earth's spheres is called a ___.

What two atmospheric layers will have an increase in air temperature?

Which seismic wave is not able to travel through liquid material within Earth?

What gas makes up most of the atmosphere on Earth?

Where are the wind speeds the fastest within a hurricane?

This rock is composed of other types of rocks that is subjected to high pressure and heat.

What powers the water cycle?

Which of the following does not make up soil?

What is the elevation of the tree on Contour Island?

What is most responsible for the seasons on Earth?

Process of positively restoring land after it has been used is called ___.

How does hydroelectric energy produce power?

How does energy from earthquakes travel?

A psychrometer is used to determine which weather variables?

What is the outermost layer of the Earth?

In an experiment, the variable that is measured is called the ___.

at what point in earth's revolution is it moving the fastest?

Which of the following is considered a renewable energy source?

Which activity would be part of a logical plan for people to manage energy resources at home?

Which of the following is not considered a greenhouse gas?

Zebra mussels were introduced to new ecosystems where they did not originate. This is called __

Global circular-moving surface currents are called ___.

100 centimeters is equal to how many meters?

Has organisms with special adaptations to a hot, dry climate.

A cold air mass overtaking a warm air mass and replacing it is called a ____.

What do we call the edges of land next to oceans?

This rock is formed quickly on the surface of the Earth.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a mineral?

Which of the following consists of the four main agents of erosion?

This shoreline feature stretches across a bay, closing it off from the ocean.

Non-renewable resources formed from buried remains of plants and animals that live long ago.

Which two processes lead to cloud formation in rising air?

What is the point between two celestial objects that they each orbit around?

Which of the following refers to the area of land where all of the water drains?

Which model states that the sun is in the center?

What percent of Earth's water is potable?

Which of the following is a result of physical/mechanical weathering?

Which layer of the atmosphere is responsible for most weather and climate on Earth?

How does the Sun's energy reach Earth?

What does transpiration mean?

Which of the following is an abiotic factor in a biome?

What is it called when the Sun and Moon's gravity work together to create super high/low tides?

Which of the following processes will decrease salinity?

The study of all interacting biotic and abiotic factors on Earth is a part of the ___.

Why is petroleum considered to be a non-renewable resource?

When water seeps into the cracks of rocks, freezes, and expands is called ___.

Using the provided map, what is the approximate longitude of Timbuktu?

Runoff containing pesticides and fertilizer from neighborhood lawns is called ___.

In the Northern Hemisphere, surface winds around the center of a hurricane move ___.

Which type of volcano produces the most violet eruption and pyroclastic material?

A ___ front brings fair to good weather.

Which part of the hydrologic (water) cycle is working against gravity?

What are the three main plate boundaries?

What is true about saltwater, as compared to fresh water?

A disadvantage of using fossil fuels as an energy resource is ___.

Over what geologic feature was Hawaii formed?

The most biologically diverse biome, yet has poor soil is the ___.

What is one advantage of wind energy?

What level of ecology studies various species in a given area?

What are rock and soil deposited by streams called?

What is the curving of the path of winds due to the Earth's rotation called?

During which stage of a thunderstorm does it begin to "die-off"?

The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of a material is called ___.

Which of the following is a part of a VALID process for supporting a scientific hypothesis?

The general surface wind circulation associated with a high pressure center is ___.