1st Semester Earth Science Final

Climatic changes may be triggered both by changes in the angle of Earth's axis and:

____________ dating gives you an indicator of the age of rock or other buried materials by what is above it or below it.

What main factor is used to rank hurricanes?

What are fluids with natural resistance to flow, used to describe magma with high silica content?

What are balloon-borne packeages of sensors that gathers upper-level temperature, air pressure, and humidity:

The temperature a mass of air must drop to in order to reach saturation (100% humidity) is also known as:

What is the constant movement of water between the atmosphere and the Earth's surface?

Scientists hypothesize that an increase of carbon dioxide leads to an increase in Earth's absorption of:

Condensation nuclei are small particles of atmosphere dust and debris that help form or create what?

When an air mass hits a mountain or other tall landmass, the upward movment of the air mass can produce clouds. Name?

What do you call the amount of time it takes for 1/2 of a parent element to decay into 1/2 of a daughter element?

Polar and tropical regions always maintain a fairly constant average temperature because:

The stratopshere is between the altitudes of 10km and 50km and is known for increasing in temperature. Why?

________________ dating gives you a somewhat accurate, quantitative idea of how old a rock layer is.

What are the most common clouds associated with storms and bad weather?

I collect 100% of an element like Unobtainium and after 15 years of not using it I am left with 12.5%. Half-lives?

Narrow bands of fast, high-altitude westerly winds are:

Magma that has a lower viscosity traps less gas an is less explosive. Which magma has the lowest silica content?

Most scientists at the time rejected Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift because he:

What is the process when water or cloud droplets collide and join to form a much larger droplet?

Put the layers on the atmosphere in order.1-Stratosphere 2-Thermosphere 3-Troposphere 4-Mesophere

What is the system used to categorize the strength of a tornado?

Openings in Earth’s crust through which intrusive magma erupts becoming extrusive lava are called:

Which of the following areas is wind a major source of erosion due to a lack of wind friction?

What current era do we live in as far as the geologic time scale is concerned?

Coal beds in Antarctica indicated to Wegener that this continent was:

A weather instrument that measures atmospheric pressure in millibars is a(n):

The layer of the atmosphere that contains the air we breathe and most of the Earth’s weather occurs is the:

A lowering of global temperatures caused by dust blocking solar radiation can be triggered by:

The change in wave frequency of energy as it moves toward or away from an observer (think of an ambulance) is the: