Exam 4

Question 1

The ice age that started 2 million years ago is the

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Pleistocene

Question 2

All are factors in the Milankovitch theory except

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The speed of Earths rotation

Question 3

The last glacial maximum occurred

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20,000 years ago

Question 4

Many deserts lie at 30o S and N latitude because

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Sinking air warms up and the ground is dry because of high evaporation.

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Rain shadow deserts

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Form on the leeward side

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Desert stream bed that is dry most of the year

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Wash

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Salt deposits are found on desert lakes because

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Dissolved ions precipitate during evaporation

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Desert pavement forms because

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Wind selectively removes sand and silt and leaves large particles behind.

Question 9

During the last glaciation

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Sea level dropped by 130m

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Dune can be found at

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Beaches, deserts, and glacial environments.

Question 11

Loess is

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silt that has been transported and deposited by wind.

Question 12

Human mismanagement can cause the conversion of semiarid land to arid land in the process called

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desertification

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Oceanic crust is - than continental crust and therefore - isostatically.

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denser, sinks

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The abyssal plains of the ocean basins are about - deep

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5 km

Question 15

a magnetometer could be used to

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determine the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field at the time the rock cooled.

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Moving away from the mid ocean ridges, oceanic crust

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becomes older, sinks, and forms the abyssal plains.

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During times of very fast sea floor spreading,

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high volume spreading ridges cause sea level rise.

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Hydrothermal vents at mid ocean ridge systems, where metal and sulfide rich water escapes

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black smokers

Question 19

If a series of island arcs collide with a continent over a long period of time they add to a continent as

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Accreted terranes

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An oceanic island

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is a volcano that rises above sea level

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Ocean floor sediment thickness

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is minimal at the mid ocean ridge system

Question 22

Most of the sediment deposited in the deep ocean environment consists of

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Oozes and pelagic clay

Question 23

The area labeled X is the

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continental slope

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An active continental margin commonly has a much narrower continental shelf and a considerably steeper continental slope than does a passive margin because

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the subducting plate pulls down the continental plate, forming a steep-sided trench.

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the world’s largest and deepest ocean is the - Ocean

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Pacific

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Surface salinity at the equator is

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lower than average

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The halocline

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the zone of the ocean where salinity drops rapidly with depth

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warm water is - than cold water, and salty water is - than less salty water

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less dense, denser

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A neap tide is

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smaller tide formed from when the sun and moon are 90 out of alignment

Question 30

The size of wind generated waves depends on

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wind speed, length of time the wind has been blowing, fetch.

Question 31

The wave height is

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the vertical distance between the crest and the trough of a wave.

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Ocean currents

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Are continuous flows of water in a particular direction.

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Due to the Coriolis effect,

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currents tin the Southern Hemisphere are deflected to the Left.

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If waves strike shore at an angle, they - and create a - current that flows parallel to the beach.

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refract, longshore

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The first organisms producing oxygen through photosynthesis were

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cyanobacteria

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Banded iron formations formed by

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precipitation of iron oxides out of ocean water due to an increase in oxygen levels in the water

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The earth’s modern atmosphere

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contains 78% nitrogen

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Standard pressure at sea level is

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1013 mbar

Question 39

Which of the following orders of the layers of the atmosphere is correct?

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troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere

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Smog is produced

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when sunlight reacts with automobile exhaust