NVLA.Semester 1 Exam Review

The most common chemical element in most stars is

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

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

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

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

An earthquake’s epicenter is ____.

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

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

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

What is the shape of a planet’s orbit?

Which of the following causes earthquakes?

Stars of which color have the coolest surface temperature?

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

The figure shows that plate movements can be caused by

Massive stars terminate in a brilliant explosion called a ____.

Why do earthquakes often cause damaging fires?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Greater red shifts in the spectra of galaxies indicate

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

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

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

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

Common type(s) of electromagnetic waves include

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

What is the atomic number of an atom?

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

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

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

A seismogram shows that P waves travel ____.

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

The reason the planets revolve around the sun is

What layers of Earth make up the lithosphere?

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

What is the atomic number of an element?

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

Where are electrons found in atoms?

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

The source of the sun’s energy is ____.

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

What is the cause of the plate tectonic activity?

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

What causes Earth's magnetic field?

Earth’s inner core is solid because of ____.

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

what element is used to date fossils

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

where is our Sun on a H-R diagram

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

Plate tectonics can also be the direct cause of forming

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

What information does an H-R diagram give you?

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

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

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

Stars of which color have the highest surface temperature?

The central region of an atom is called the ____.

Overall, which seismic waves are the most destructive?

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

What instrument records earthquake waves?

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

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

What is the currently accepted age of Earth?

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

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

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

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

The Sun's energy comes from _____________________.

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

What is the cause of the plate tectonic activity?

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

When did the Big Bang occur?

What movement of Earth is responsible for night and day?

There are four parts to an atom

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

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

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

As a star goes through this cycle their  _____ changes.

Earthquakes are usually associated with ____.

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

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

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

A fault is ____.

Plate tectonics are.....

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

Magnetic reversals ____.

What are the building blocks of minerals?

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

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

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

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

Light is electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength such as

All stars, regardless of size, eventually ____.

Light cannot escape the intense gravitational pull of a ____.

Why does earth have plate tectonics and continents