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Regents questions for Earth Science
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1
At what 2 Moon positions does someone experience the highest high tides & lowest low tides?
D and B
C and A
A and B
B and C
2
What page would you turn to in order to find a divergent plate boundary?
5
2
3
4
3
The natural sandblasting (abrasion) of surfacebedrock in a desert region is the result of
wind erosion
chemical precipitation
mass movement
wave erosion
4
Which map represents the surface wind pattern around N. Hemisphere high- &low-pressure centers?
2
1
3
4
5
This apparent path of the Sun was observed onthe first day of
Fall
Summer
Spring
Winter
6
Which tectonic feature is associated with a complex or uncertain plate boundary?
East African Rift
Galapagos Hot Spot
Southwest Indian Ridge
Mariana Trench
7
Which diagram best represents how sea breezes form near a shoreline on a hot summer day?
4
1
2
3
8
Which diagram best represents the regions of Earth in sunlight on June 21 and December 21?
2
3
1
4
9
Oceanic crust slides under the AleutianIslands in N. Pacific Ocean & forms the Aleutian Trench
at a convergent plate boundary
at a transform plate boundary
at a divergent plate boundary
10
What page would you turn to in order to find the equation of eccentricity?
14
15
1
16
11
What page would you turn to in order toidentify metamorphic rocks?
9
6
7
3
12
Which color of visible light has the shortest wavelength?
yellow
violet
green
red
13
Which lettered location has the highest elevation?
C
A
B
D
14
What page would you turn to in order to record the travel time of an S-wave?
15
10
11
14
15
What page of the ESRT do you use to convert Fahrenheit (F) into Kelvin (K)?
16
3
13
1
16
Someone sees a sailing ship & notes the ship appears to be "sinking" as it moves away. Why?
The earth is revolving
The earth has a curved surface
The surface of the ocean has depressions
The earth is rotating
17
This air mass originating over Mexico isclassified as
continental tropical
maritime tropical
continental polar
maritime polar
18
What is the dewpoint when the dry-bulb temperature is 12°C and the wet-bulb temperature is 7°C?
28°C
-5°C
1°C
48°C
19
What page of the Reference Table do you use to answer a question about dew point?
1
13
10
12
20
Which two processes lead to cloud formation in rising air?
expanding and cooling
compressing and cooling
expanding and warming
compressing and warming
21
The minerals talc, muscovite mica, quartz, andolivine are similar because they
break along cleavage planes
contain silicon and oxygen
are the same color
have the same hardness
22
The theory that the universe is expanding issupported by data from the
nuclear decay of radioactive materials
nuclear fusion of radioactive materials
red shift of light from distant galaxies
blue shift of light from distance galaxies
23
What is the wind speed of this station model?
30 knots
15 knots
25 knots
10 knots
24
Use page 15 of the ESRT: which planet has completed less than one orbit in the last 100 years?
Neptune
Mercury
Uranus
Mars
25
In which atmospheric temperature zone does most precipitation occur?
mesosphere
thermosphere
stratosphere
troposphere
26
The photograph below shows a feature of the universe as seen through a telescope. It is:
a galaxy
a star
an asteroid
a comet
27
According to the
Earth Science Reference Tables
, the equatorial diameter of the Earth is about
1275.6 km
127560 km
1275600 km
12756 km
28
Which weather instrument is used to determine wind direction?
2
3
4
1
29
Which group of substances is arranged in order of decreasing specific heat values?
liquid water, ice, water vapor
copper, lead, iron
iron, granite, basalt
dry air, water vapor, ice
30
In the Northern Hemisphere, planetary winds are deflected to the right due to the
Doppler effect
uneven heating of Earth's surface
tilt of Earth's axis
Coriolis effect
