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What is the age of the earth? How do we know?
a) 6000 years old, fossil evidence
b) 4.6 million years old, radioactive decay of uranium
c) 4.6 billion years old, cosmic background radiation
d) 13.8 billion years old, Earth's magnetic field

What is the age of the universe? How do we know?
a) 13.8 billion years old, radioactive decay
b) 13.8 billion years old, cosmic background radiation
c) 4.6 billion years old, life cycle of stars
d) 4.6 billion years old, radioactive decay

When does runoff occur?
a) When rainfall exceeds permeability rate.
b) When permeability rate exceeds rainfall.
c) When the soil is unsaturated
d) When permeability equals the porosity

What is infiltration?
a) The change of water from gas to liquid
b) The change of water from liquid to gas
c) The travel of water over the surface of the earth
d) The travel of water into the soil

As sediments increase in size, how does capillarity change?
a) Increases
b) Decreases
c) Stays the same
d)

What factors affect permeability and porosity?
a) Shape, packing, and sizes of sediment
b) Climate
c) Composition of sediment
d) Acidity of water

As particle size increases, how does porosity change?
a) Increases
b) Decreases
c) Stays the same
d)

What is capillary action?
a) Capillary action is erosion done by braided streams.
b) Capillary action is the name for the water retained in sediment.
c) Capillary action is ability for water to seep down into the ground.
d) Capillary action is the ability for water to rise under its own pressure in small spaces.

Where are well drilled into?
a) The bedrock
b) The unsaturated zone
c) The saturated zone
d) The organic soil

In a stream, where is erosion dominant? Where is deposition dominant?
a) In a stream, erosion is dominant on the inside curve and deposition is dominant on the outside curve.
b) In a stream, erosion is dominant on the outer curve and deposition is dominant on the inside curve.
c) In a stream, both erosion and deposition is dominant on the inside curve.
d) In a stream, both erosion and deposition is dominant on the outside curve.

What do glaciers leave behind?
a) sorted sediment, sand dunes, layers of loess, crossbeds
b) unsorted sediment, striations, erratic boulders, and drumlins.
c) sorted sediment, platforms, arches, cliffs, sand bars, barrier beaches
d) v-shaped valleys, floodplains, oxbow lakes, delta

What is the geologic time scale and the theory of evolution based on?
a) Half Lives of Radioactive atoms
b) Cosmic Background Radiation
c) Lake Effect
d) Fossil evidence

What is a half life?
a) The amount of time it takes for half of the fossils in a rock to decay
b) The amount of time it takes for half of the light from the cosmic background radiation to reach Earth
c) The amount of time it takes for half of a sample or radioactive atoms to decay
d) The amount of time it takes for all of a radioactive isotope to decay

Index fossils exist for...
a) a short period of time and a small area
b) a short period of time and a wide area
c) a long period of time and a small area
d) a long period of time and a wide area

High pressure systems spin...
a) clockwise and outward
b) counterclockwise and outward
c) clockwise and inward
d) counterclockwise and inward

Low pressure systems spin
a) clockwise and outward
b) clockwise and inward
c) counterclockwise and outward
d) counterclockwise and inward

How does the weight and pressure of dry air compare to humid air?
a) Dry air is heavier and has more pressure than humid air
b) Dry air is heavier and has less pressure than humid air
c) Dry air is lighter and has more pressure than humid air
d) Dry air is lighter and has less pressure than humid air

When is it most likely to rain?
a) When the air has a 0% relative humidity
b) When it is cold and dark
c) When there is a large difference between the wet bulb and dry bulb temperatures
d) When the air temperature and dewpoint temperature are the same

How and where does war, low pressure air move?
a) it sinks and contracts, then warms and condenses
b) it sinks and contracts, then cools and condenses.
c) it rises and expands, then cools and condenses.
d) it rises and expands, then warms and condenses.

What is lake effect?
a) Lake effect describes the low specific heat of water that causes land and sea breezes
b) Lake effect occurs when moist air flows west over lakes and hits the colder ground, causing snow
c) Lake effect describes the low pressure system near lakes causing clear, dry weather.
d) Lake effect occurs when the water table reaches the land surface.

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