Final Exam Review

What is true about wind transport?

What is the erosional gap that forms when part of the rock record is destroyed?

What greenhouse gas adding to global warming does burning fossil fuels release?

Which layer is younger than layer E but older than Layer C?

What type of sedimentary rock is coarse-grained with angular fragments?

Where are manganese nodules usually found?

Earth's atmosphere conatins more -------------------than any other substance.

How would you classify a soil containing 60% sand, 10% silt and 30% clay?

Current short term variations in the atmosphere are referred to as

The most abundant elements in earth's crust are

What does Earth's tilt and orbit around the sun cause?

The oldest rocks layers in an undisturbed sequence are located where?

Minerals always exist in what state of matter?

What is the name for the constant movement o water between the atmosphere and Earth's surface?

What two materials are necessary for the formation of most caves?

Intrusive igneous rocks form

There can be no stream or glacial erosion without

What happens when rocks come in contact with molten rocks?

What two gas giant planets appear blue because of methane in their atmospheres?

What is one period of low sunspot activity?

Low-Pressure systems are usually associated with _______________ weather

What is evolution?  The process by which organisms __________________-

Most of the water that falls on the ground as precipitation 

The change in frequency of energy as it moves toward or away from an observer is called the 

in orographic lifting, clouds form when moist winds ________________________

Which of the following affects the density of water?

How can we prevent mass movement disasters?

Coal beds in Antarctica indicate that the continent had ____________________

What is the amount of time it takes for 1/2 of the amount of an isotope to decay called?

The downward part of a convection current causes a sinking force that does what?

Where is the youngest part of the ocean floor found?

Locations of seismic belts are determined by plotting what?

Driving forces of tectonic plates are related to convection currents in which layer of earth?

What is often associated with very severe supercell thunderstorms?

How does the formation of sea ice raise the density of nearby water?

Silver, gold and copper have shiny surfaces and thus are said to have

Slumps are common after rainfall because the water

Bodies of interplanetary debris that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter are called ________

A blocked-off meander eventually becomes

What do continental-continental plate collisions produce?

What is an extended period of well-below normal rainfall called?

At an convergent boundary where two oceanic plates meet, what happens?

2 climates that are the same latitude my be different because of 

The magnetic pattern of ocean-floor rocks on one side of an ocean ridge is __________?

Valuable ore deposits and gems are often associated with

The Coriolis effect is due to the ____________of the Earth.

in which climate would chemical weathering occur at the fastest rate?

Which of the following is used to determine the absolute age of a rock?

Which of the following has the potential for the most erosion?

When moist winds approach a mountain as they come down over the other side what are they like?

Which of the following characteristics of water can be responsible for mechanical weathering?

Given enough time what does wave action do to shorelines?

________________ can act as a trap, worsening air pollution problems.

Precipitation can be predicted somewhat accurately by a long-term forecast at the _____ ranges.