NVLA.Semester 1 Exam Review

The central region of an atom is called the ____.

When stars are moving towards us the appear to be more of what color?

What is the cause of the plate tectonic activity?

Evidence that Earth’s core has a high iron content comes from ____.

Which are the hottest stars on the H-R Diagram?

Which are the coolest stars on the H-R Diagram?

What is the atomic number of an atom?

Assume you began with 10 g of a parent isotope. How many grams of parent isotope will be present after 2 half-lives?

There are four parts to an atom

The most common chemical element in most stars is

what element is used to date fossils

The main factor that affects the evolution of a star is its

A faint glow of light that fills the universe, falling on Earth from every direction with uniform intensity is called?

Earth’s inner core is solid because of ____.

Which of the following results when divergence occurs between two oceanic plates?

What causes Earth's magnetic field?

Where would you find super giants on the H-R diagram?

Plate tectonics are.....

Another name for the interstellar matter that will eventually form a star is ____.

The Sun's energy comes from _____________________.

The dating process that places geologic events in proper sequence is referred to as a ____.

What is the determining factor that separates the Earth's layers?

What are the building blocks of minerals?

What is the currently accepted age of Earth?

Magma forms when solid rock in the crust and upper mantle ____.

The reason the planets revolve around the sun is

What is the atomic number of an element?

What instrument records earthquake waves?

Which of the following causes earthquakes?

A fault is ____.

Most of the information about Earth’s interior was obtained by studying ____.

When stars are moving towards us the appear to be more of what color?

Which of the following are reliable ways to date the age of the Earth?

Changes in the color of starlight that measures the speeds of galaxies and track the expansion of the universe is what?

Magnetic reversals ____.

The measure of a star’s brightness is called its ____.

What hypothesis states that the continents were once joined to form a single supercontinent?

The two characterists of stars shown on an H-R diragram are absolute brightness and

Plate tectonics can also be the direct cause of forming

The distance between a seismic station and the earthquake epicenter is determined from the ____.

An earthquake’s epicenter is ____.

Massive stars terminate in a brilliant explosion called a ____.

Earthquakes are usually associated with ____.

At divergent plate boundaries in the ocean, magma rises and melts because of ____.

Light is electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength such as

Which of the following is used in an attempt to make short-range predictions of when earthquakes will occur?

What movement of Earth is responsible for night and day?

What does “2” mean in the formula for water H2O?

Earth is closest to the sun at a point called ____.

Greater red shifts in the spectra of galaxies indicate

Radiometric dating is possible because the rates of decay of radioactive isotopes ____.

This method of dating events and structures (such as fossils or rocks) was developed first and places things in order

What layers of Earth make up the lithosphere?

What is the minimum number of seismic stations that is needed to determine the location of an earthquake’s epicenter?

When an earthquake occurs, energy radiates in all directions from its source, which is called the ____.

The turning or spinning of a body on its axis is known as ____.

Which of the following is not a main part of the star life cycle?

The smallest particle of an element that still retains all the element’s properties is a(n) ____.

Common type(s) of electromagnetic waves include

Stars of which color have the coolest surface temperature?

Which seismic waves compress and expand rocks in the direction the waves travel?

Why do earthquakes often cause damaging fires?

where is our Sun on a H-R diagram

Which one of the following statements is true about P waves?

At divergent plate boundaries in the ocean, magma rises and melts because of ____.

The farther away a galaxy is from us, the ___it is moving away from us.

The brightness of a star, as seen from the Earth is called its

Why does earth have plate tectonics and continents

All stars, regardless of size, eventually ____.

What is important about Hubble's discovery that there is a red shift in the spectra of galaxies

What is the cause of the plate tectonic activity?

During the formation of the universe some 14 billion years ago every atom in the universe was formed

Overall, which seismic waves are the most destructive?

Which of the following affects the amount of destruction caused by earthquake vibrations?

Which of the following are reliable ways to date the age of the Earth?

Which force is most responsible for the formation of a star?

Earth’s core is made of an alloy of ____.

The figure shows that plate movements can be caused by

When did the Big Bang occur?

The mass number of an atom is obtained by totaling the number of ____.

Dark areas on the sun with cooler temperatures then the surrounding areas are called?

What is the shape of a planet’s orbit?

Light cannot escape the intense gravitational pull of a ____.

Every atom has a specific and unique makeup of the three particles.

Where are electrons found in atoms?

As a star goes through this cycle their  _____ changes.

Which of the following areas would most likely be the safest during a major earthquake?

The source of the sun’s energy is ____.

According to the ____________________ theory, the universe formed in an instant, billions of years ago, in an explosion.

Which of the following does NOT affect the apparent brightness of a star?

The amount of shaking produced by an earthquake at a given location is called the ____.

What information does an H-R diagram give you?

A seismogram shows that P waves travel ____.

Which of the following affects the amount of destruction caused by earthquake vibrations?

The movement of hotter matter rising and cooler matter sinking is called?

If the atomic number of an element is 6 and its mass number is 14, how many neutrons are contained in the nucleus?

Which of the following are reliable ways to date the age of the Earth?

Stars of which color have the highest surface temperature?

The geological processes that shape Earth’s features today ____.