Earth Science Midterm Review

Which type of electromagnetic energy has a longer wavelength than microwaves?

Which list is correctly arranged from smallest to largest ? 

Which of the following is not true when air temp drops to the dew point temperature ?

Your latitude is 60 degrees North, what is the angle of Polaris from the horizon? 

Looking back at the earth from the moon, the earth's shape would look like ?

Which eccentricity value represents an orbital path that is closest to a circle? 

Which color indicates the hottest star? 

Energy is transferred from the sun to the earth mainly by 

The passage of the moon between the sun and the earth causes a ? 

Where is the asteroid belt found? 

What is the difference between ultraviolet, visible, and infrared radiation ? 

If a material is heated, its mass will ?

On July 4th in NYS the sun appears to rise ?

Energy from the sun reaches the earth through a heat transer know as .....

Which phase change releases the most heat energy?

Our Milky-Way galaxy is best described as a  _____________ shaped galaxy. 

Which object is located at one of the foci of the elliptical orbit of Mars? 

As the volume of an object increases it's ____________ will increase proportionally.  

Its noon at the primer meridian, its 4 pm where you are, your location is ?

This is a diagram of a ? 

The redshift of light from distant galaxies provides evidence that the universe is _________?

As air temperature increases, it can hold _________ water vapor. 

____________ is a gas in the Stratosphere that obsorbes harful ultraviolet radation.

Heat transfer through convection occurs primarly due to .....

Which material has the highest specific heat (heats up the slowest) ?

Clouds form along weather fronts because warm air

What is the contour interval of this map? 

What is at the center of our galaxy? 

What direction is Mill River flowing ? 

An object is 2.7 g/cm³  (density) It has a volume of 12 cm³ , what is the mass of the cube? 

The earth has a greater circumference 

A high air pressure belt, dry-climate belt is located at which Earth Latitude?

As air warms, it becomes ____________ dense. 

Which heat transfer occurs through density differences ? 

If a material is heated and expands, it density will ?