Semester 2 Final Question Preview (ID: 42699)

a) Fill sinkholes with concrete

b) Treating groundwater as a nonrenewable resource

c) Throw all wastes on the ground

d) Lower the water table by pumping out of a well

a) They are clues to how and where the rocks formed

b) They do not tell us anything

c) That older rocks are on top of newer rocks

d) All of the above

a) True

b) False

c)

d)

a) Describes how light is reflected from the surface of a mineral

b) The tendency of a mineral to cleave, or break along flat, even surfaces

c) The measure of the resistance of a mineral to being scratched

d) The color of a mineral in its powdered form

a) Describes how light is reflected from the surface of a mineral

b) The tendency of a mineral to cleave, or break along flat, even surfaces

c) The measure of the resistance of a mineral to being scratched

d) The color of a mineral in its powdered form

a) Composition and texture

b) Color and hardness

c) Streak and cleavage

d) Fracture and density

a) True

b) False

c)

d)

a) melted rock (magma) cools

b) heat and pressure alters existing rock

c) existing rock is weathered, eroded, deposited, and finally cemented and compacted together

d) volcanoes erupting

a) melted rock (magma) cools

b) heat and pressure alters existing rock

c) existing rock is weathered, eroded, deposited, and finally cemented and compacted together

d) volcanoes erupting

a) Earth does not have seasons

b) The rotation of Earth on its axis

c) Earths position relative to the sun continually changes as it travels along its orbit, but its tilt does not change

d) Earths position relative to the sun continually changes as it travels along its orbit, and its tilt changes along with it

a) Oceans cool faster compared to air

b) Oceans holds a large amount of heat which effects the circulation of water

c) Oceans increase the levels of carbon dioxide

d) All of the above

a) Unequal heating and cooling

b) Two adjoining air masses having contrasting characteristics

c) The process of turning from a liquid to a gas

d) Energy transferred from one object to another because of the difference in the objects temperature

a) The Moon

b) The Sun

c) The tilt of Earth

d) Humans

a) The amount of precipitation

b) Orographic lifting

c) Greenhouse effect

d) Earths seasonal rotation around the sun

a) Lower atmosphere (troposphere)

b) Middle of the atmosphere (mesosphere)

c) Middle of the atmosphere (stratosphere)

d) Upper atmosphere (thermosphere)

a) Ration of the airs actual water vapor content compared with the amount of water vapor air can hold at that temperature and

b) Unequal heating and cooling

c) When air flows together and rises

d) The boundary between two adjoining air masses having contrasting characteristics

a) Wind

b) Humidity

c) Convergence

d) Precipitation

a) Weather is never changing and climate is weather data that has been collected over many years to describe a place or regio

b) Weather is data that has been collected over many years to describe a place or region and climate is constantly changing

c) Weather is constantly changing and climate is weather data that has been collected over may years to describe a place or r

d) Weather is data that is collected over many years to describe a place or region and climate does not change

a) Sirius

b) Vega

c) The Sun

d) North Star

a) Milky Way

b) Andromeda

c) Spiral

d) Sombrero