EE MSL review 2018 Bosiak

Maritime air masses form over

Natural Climate change occurs by geo and solar events; sunspots, volcanic eruptions, ice ages

A watershed is the area surrounding a river from where the river gathers its water

Good ozone is found in the stratosphere

Weather is the state of the atmosphere

Igneous rock is formed from magma/lava

Coastal areas are warmed or cooled by the water offshore and so tend to be ___ than inland area

soil profile is the entire sample showing all the layers of soil

Coastal areas are warmed or cooled because breezes form from land & water temp differences 

Lunar means moon and solar means sun

Ash and dust ( tephra) from volcanoes can cool the Earth's temperature naturally

Carrying capacity is controlled by limiting factors

The Koppen Classification system is a method for identifying ______

El Nino is a weather event. Warm water backs up along the equator &  accumulates on the __

Geohazards can include

___________ controls the seasons

Earth Science involves the study of Meteorology ( the atmosphere ) ,  ____, ____, _____.

Sedimentary rock forms when rock is broken down into pieces and then " cemented" back together

Some ways we can alter a habitat are 

The San Andreas fault in California is the best example of

_________ is a planetary wobble caused by the moon and does not affect seasons

Rotation means to move around an axis

The distance between the planets and the Sun is ____________

For heat to be transferred through conduction, you must ________ the hot object

Cp stands for continental polar air mass that started far north

Reclamation is mandatory for mining companies. They must " fix" the land after they mine it 

The Earth's ______ protects us from the harmful effects of radiation

Sun, rain, wind, rocks are all

High pressure systems have a ____ clouds. They are represented by a(n) _____ 

Diseases , lack of food or water are all examples of

Humans influence water by

The atmosphere is considered a liquid

Strato or composite volcanoes are made of layers of lava and 

Transform plates slide past each other and sometimes get "locked". When they release you have

For  heat to be transferred through radiation, it must primarily travel through ______ 

weathering is influenced by many factors. They include

Biodiversity is genetic differences in populations & variations of populations in ecosystems

Shorelines can be ____________ by groins, jetties and seawalls

___ are identified by plants & animals living there.They are determined by altitude & latitude

The first level in an energy pyramid is the _______.

UV(ultra violet ) rays can cause

Agriculture refers not only to crop production but _________ farming as well

The more you travel, use processed food and burn fossil fuels, the __ your ecological footprint

Earth's oblate spheroid shape causes it to ___________ at the equator

Ocean currents ___from the equator to the northern latitudes too try & balance the heat budget

Cyclonic storms rotate counterclockwise and result from the interaction of warm and cold air

Humans __________ beaches by dredging the offshore areas & bringing the sand back to the beach

S waves are secondary waves. They get to a recording station _____ 

New land is formed at areas called mid ocean ridges. These are examples of __

Soil horizons in a profile would be in order like this: Humus ( O ) A, B,C, Bedrock or parent 

Alternative energy sources are ___________ energies

97% of all water on Earth is tied up in oceans

Ocean ph changes occur because of the input of acid rain and the accumulation of ____

Sea level increases and melting glaciers are a result of

Only 3% of all water on Earth is freshwater. ~ 2.6 % of that is tied up in ice and groundwater

Ocean currents and gyres are found in all oceans

Forms of energy transfer are : conduction, convection and radiation

Soil is formed by the _____ of rocks

______ is the type of energy production used in nuclear power plants on Earth

Thunderstorms , blizzards and hurricanes are all 

Relative humidity is how the _____ feels to us

In the stratosphere, the ozone is blocking harmful ultra violet rays from the sun

Volcanoes can be in one of three states of activity: dormant ( sleeping (), active and _____

Weathering is _________rocks/minerals and erosion is ______ rocks/minerals

Soil horizon is an individual layer within a soil profile

Erosion is the _____ of weathered material

Continental air masses form over

An individual's impact on the Earth and its resources is called

Deforestation refers to the cutting and clearing of forested areas. It applies to ______

Earth orbits the sun in __________ days

Cold water holds more oxygen than warm water and so is healthier for living things

For convectional heat transfer to occur, heat must travel primarily through air or ________

Air masses have the same temperature, barometric pressure and weather conditions

The energy on the sun is produced by _________

Condensation nuclei: pieces of soot, ash, dirt that allow water vapor to condense around them

Physical weather breaks something into smaller pieces that are identifiable as the original

Cyclonic storms do not have to be intense or violent. They can simply be a rainstorm

Surface waves are waves that look like the rolling sea and are the ones we feel

Low pressure systems have _____  of clouds, can have ____ and is represented by a(n) _____

Biodiversity is ___________ in a habitat or on all of Earth

Biofuels, geothermal, wind, hydro, solar and wave are all types of _______

Tides are controlled mostly by ______  interaction with Earth

Sustainable farming does

Chemical weathering means breaking something down so that it no longer looks like the original

Ocean temperatures are measured by SST. This means

Three main types of volcanoes are shield, composite ( strato ) and ___________

ranches are sources of animal farming

The three type of plate boundaries include transform, convergent and divergent plate boundaries

An old river area will have a _____ shaped valley and many ____

Biomes are classified by ______ and _______

Human industrialization has put ____ and extra CO2 into the atmosphere to create air pollution

Carrying capacity is the _______ land can support 

When the Earth changes its tilt's direction without changing the degrees of tilt, it is called 

Tephra is material like ash and dust that are produced during a volcanic eruption

CFC's are chemicals that destroy the good ozone 

Isotherms are areas of equal

Climate is different from weather because it shows weather over _____

Coyotes, Kudzu and red fox are all examples of ______

S waves travel through _____

P waves are primary waves and get to a recording station

Point pollution is easily identified; non-point pollution is not

Magma moves in the mantle ( athenopshere) 

Aquaculture means growing things in

A divergent plate boundary is an area where the plates are __________

A spring tide is an exceptionally high or low tide and occurs during a _____ moon

The Himalayas are an example of this plate boundary

Mining is divided into two categories ; mining and harvesting

Mining involves taking minerals and fuels from the ground: under or on the surface.  Examples:

Biotic means living things

Earth rotates on its axis every ____________ hours.

Climate is influenced by ________ and altitude 

A rift area is one that is created because the plates are moving apart. It is a ____

Magma moves in the athenosphere by ____ currents

The most destructive type of volcano is a composite (strato ) volcano

Volcanoes are typically ( primarily ) found at ______

Wind, ice, other rocks, water movement and humans are all sources of

Warm air hold more moisture than cold air

________ is harvesting natural resources from the Earth

Earth's rotation causes it to be a bit __________ at the poles

Land heats and cools faster than water 

Continental land masses can be labeled polar,tropical or temperate, depending on where the air 

Atmosphere is made of N, CO2, O, H, He, and Ar

Maritime air masses are not usually 

Greenhouse gases help hold in the heat generated by the Earth and ___ the temperatures globally

One consequence of human water use is subsidence. This is

The water cycle includes:precipitation, evaporation, condensation,runoff,transpiration and

Mitigate means to ____

_______ weather is usually associated with anticyclonic rotation in an air mass

Estuaries are

Drain the ground water near the ocean& salt water will come in.This is  salt water intrusion

Revolution means to  go around ___________

Pressure in weather systems always move from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure

Biomes are habitats with specific ________ and so specific plants and animals

Orbit is the path that something takes around another object

The rock cycle includes changing rocks from one type to another and creating new rock

Urban heat islands are areas that are _________ than ________ areas

Isobars are lines on a weather chart that show equal

An air mass that comes down from Canada would be considered a cP air mass

magma is molten Earth that is still underground

Invasive species are not native to an area and can hurt the native species

Some radiational heating does travel through the atmosphere

New crust (lithosphere ) is formed at a ____

Heat is transferred in water, the air and the Earth's mantle by _____

Pollutants can affect all life in a water shed because

Long range forecasts are only good for about ___ days away

Metamorphic rocks are created when rock is under pressure, heat or exposed to chemicals

Mercalli Scale shows the _______ of the earthquake

Humans create __ precipitation by putting  pollutants like CO2 & sulfur dioxides into the air

Foodwebs will show an entire food interaction in a habitat

Humans create global climate change by burning fossil fuels and creating pollution

P waves can travel through ___

There are several types of earthquake waves. P and S waves are two of them

How many planetary laws did Kepler proposed ?

Overgrazing involves animals _________too much on any one field

Earth's axial tilt is _________

Atmosphere is made mostly of

Gyres are roughly ____ and carry warmed water away from the equator towards the poles and back.

Surface water is actually an underground water table that is full. Examples are:

Biofuels, hydro power,wind power , geothermal power, nuclear power are all

The main fish that is impacted in El Nino are anchovies

An air mass that comes from the west coast would be considered a maritime air mass

Oxidation - the mixing of water and oxygen creates rust. This is a type of chemical weathering

All living things on Earth make up the _____

Kepler's first law states the planets move in an _______ orbit

Troposphere contains bad ozone that is produced by the introduction of ___________ by humans 

Kepler's second law states that planets move quickest when they are ____________  the sun 

Maritime air masses tend to be wetter than continental air masses

Estuaries are important because

Greenhouse gases include: methane, sulfur dioxides, carbon dioxides and

Lava is magma that has reached the Earth's surface

Bad ozone is found in the troposhere

One type of water pollution is too much sediment in the water , suffocating fish 

Chloro Fluorocarbons harm the good ozone

Fusion on the Sun involves combining ________ atoms to create energy

Pollutants from ___ and __ are the biggest polluters

Volcanoes also put sulfides into the atmosphere and can cool the Earth's temperature

Cindercone volcanoes are made of cinders and are not as tall as Composite volcanoes because of

Shield volcanoes are low and look like an upside down warrior's shield

The shape of the Earth looks like a squashed beach ball. This is called ______

The organization of everything is: universe,galaxy,stars, planetary systems,satellites ( moons)

Ritcher Scale shows the _____________ of an earthquake

As energy transfers from one trophic level to the next, ____ of the energy is lost. 

Glaciers are large moving sheets of ice. They are agents of ____

nuclear power is

In a food chain or food web the arrows point _______ where the food (energy) is going

The magnitude of an earthquake is determined by the

The ring of fire is a subduction zone that rings the __________ ocean

The third law states that the bigger a planet's orbit ... the longer it takes to complete

Consequences of human use include: aquifer depletion,water shortages, impact on wildlife

The word lithosphere means the Earth's ___

The Mid Atlantic Ridge is an example of a 

Precession will only change the stars that are seen and not the seasons

____ is the center point where two objects balance each other out. Ours is near the sun

Condensation nuclei are necessary for _________formation

There are ________ tides every day

Non-point pollution examples:

Ways to mitigate human impact on Earth include __________

Examples of urban heat islands are Boston,New York, Calcutta, London, Los Angeles

The__________ layer, which is found in the stratosphere, protects us from UV rays

A geo hazard is something that is a dangerous thing caused by " Earth " 

Water heats and cools ______________ than land

Fission means splitting and fusion means combining

As energy transfers from one trophic level to the next , _______ % is available to use

The epicenter of an earthquake is found directly above