Earth Space Science Final Exam Review

Which of the following is impacted by El Nino? 

The change of state from a gas to a liquid is called _____.

Which of the following is an example of human impact on climate change?

Which of the following best describes the ocean bottom? 

Hurricanes are classified according to intensity using the 

The physical, chemical, and biological laws that operate today have also operated in the past.

What type of rocks are most fossils found? 

What is the function of the atmosphere's ozone layer? 

Why can the removal of vegetation trigger mass movements? 

Which of the following is a type of plankton? 

What is the ultimate energy source for most wind? 

Compost helps preserve the health of soil because it ____. 

Which greenhouse gas is the most powerful absorber of radiation emitted by the Earth? 

What causes surface ocean currents to be deflected?

Which type of climate has no winters? 

What causes a hurricane to lose energy when it moves on land?

What type of boundary occurs where two plates move together? 

Which part of the ocean is deepest? 

What term describes when a solid converts directly to a gas? 

What is the outermost layer of the Earth? 

Most of the active volcanoes on Earth are located in a belt known as the _____. 

physical forces break rock into smaller pieces without changing the rocks chemical composition

What phenomenon naturally warms Earth's lower atmosphere and surface?

Which of the following is not one of the main areas of Earth science? 

What is the force behind mass movements?

The largest of the Earth's oceans is the _____.

What technology do scientists use to measure ocean depth? 

The supercontinent in the continental drift hypothesis was called ______. 

What factor distinguishes wet tropical climates from tropical wet and dry climates? 

What type of front produces several hours of light to moderate precipitation over a region?

The eye of a hurricane has the 

What kind of plate boundary occurs where two plates grind past each other? 

How old is Earth? 

How does the age of seafloor sediments change with increasing distance from the ocean ridge? 

What term describes organisms that live on or in the ocean floor?

Because of the Coriolis effect, ocean currents in Northern Hemisphere are deflected to the 

What type of front forms when the surface position of the front does not move?

Minerals are classified according to their ____.

The center of a tornado is characterized by its ______. 

Which of the following best describes air? 

Marine organisms are classified according to how they ______. 

The rust colored tint of the desert landscapes is the result of 

naturally occurring, inorganic solid, crystalline structure, definite chemical composition

Hydrosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere are the Earth's four major what?

Major earthquakes are sometimes preceded by smaller earthquakes called ______. 

Differences in ocean height can be measured by _____. 

Wegener's continental drift hypothesis stated continents once joined together to form

Minerals are classified by _____.

What is the energy source for the water cycle? 

When does the summer solstice occur in the Northern Hemisphere? 

The central region of an atom is called the____.

The Coriolis Effect influences _________.       

Which gas is most important for understanding atmospheric processes? 

Typhoon is another name for _______. 

 A rotating column of air is called a(n)

The advantage of solar energy include the fact that it is ______. 

All the energy that drives Earth's rock cycle comes from

Which of the following causes earthquakes?

Earth receives energy from the sun through what method of heat transfer?

What are the building blocks of minerals?

What is the force behind mass movements? 

Maritime air masses form ______.

Which type of climate is associated with savannas? 

What is one of the drawbacks to the extensive use of solar energy? 

What is the most abundant salt in the sea? 

Which of the following is NOT a category of marine organisms? 

Resources that can be replenished over a relatively short time span are ____.

Why did many plants die at the end of the Mesozoic? 

What likely contributed to the extinction that marks the end of the Mesozoic Era? 

The hypotheses is tested extensively and competing hypotheses are eliminate, it becomes a

Where does seafloor spreading occur? 

Which of the following is a type of nekton? 

The greatest number of thunderstorms occur in the_____. 

The movement of water that parallels the shore is called?

Nekton include all animals that _____. 

The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide helps to 

What type of climate is a characteristic of Antarctica?

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

Rain, sleet, snow and hail are all examples of ______.

The process of converting a liquid to a gas is known as _______. 

The accumulation of sediment found along the shore of a lake or ocean is called a _____. 

The energy that drives surface ocean currents comes from ____. 

The Hawaiian Islands are associated with what type of volcanism? 

What is the study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate?

Shoreline erosion and coastal flooding are two consequences of ______.

What type of rocks would there be evidence of past life forms? 

The nebular hypothesis states the solar system formed from a rotating cloud of made mostly of

Organisms that drift with ocean currents are called? 

Approximately how much of the Earth's surface is covered by land? 

Which instrument is used to measure wind speed? 

Which force is involved in the development of surface currents?