Earth and Space Science Review (CAST)

The Jet Stream is a global pattern of atmospheric movement that influences patterns in local weather. Based on the information provided in the weather map, which city shown most recently saw a rise in temperature?

• Boise

• Denver

• Louisville

• Shreveport

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What causes most changes in local weather?

• High humidity

• Changes in temperature

• Movement of air masses

• Clouds

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Which of the following is a greenhouse gas?

• carbon monoxide
• oxygen
• nitrogen
• carbon dioxide

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When the sun's rays pass through our atmosphere and then heat is trapped by the atmosphere it is called

• Global Warming
• Greenland Effect
• Greenhouse Effect
• Ice Age

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The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located ____.

• Near continents

• At mid-ocean ridges

• Near Indiana

• Far from mid-ocean ridges

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___________ is the process by which

new oceanic lithosphere (sea floor) forms as magma rises to Earth’s surface and solidifies at a mid-ocean ridge.

• Sea-floor spreading

• Continental drift

• Plate Tectonics

• Mid-ocean range

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When water and other minerals move through open spaced between larger sediments, gluing them together, ____________ occurs.

• Compaction

• Deposition

• Cementation

• Erosion

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Which of the following is a benefit that could occur after a catastrophic event? (Select all that apply)

• A flooded river deposits nutrients on the riverbank.

• A wildfire returns nutrients to the soil.

• A wildfire can clear old, dead plants off the forest floor.

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Which is the best synonym for catastrophic?

• Advantageous
• Successful
• Disaster
• Fortunate

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A resource, such as oil, that cannot regenerate in a reasonable amount of time is called

• nonrenewable.

• 
  renewable.

• 
  restricted.

• 
  scarce.

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