Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password

Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

SOL Review

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Word
Definition
Density   show
🗑
show is found by water displacement.  
🗑
show rises because it is less dense.  
🗑
show sinks  
🗑
As pressure increases   show
🗑
show as a liquid  
🗑
show same density  
🗑
As mass increase   show
🗑
show a prediction about a problem that can be tested.  
🗑
show a changeable factor in an experiement.  
🗑
show factors that are the same  
🗑
Any valid scientific theory   show
🗑
show your Latitude  
🗑
show Lines go East-West, but measure North and South of the Equator.  
🗑
show Lines go North-South but measure East and West of the Prime Meridian.  
🗑
The closer the Countour Lines   show
🗑
Contour lines from   show
🗑
The Earth consists of a   show
🗑
The Earth consists of a   show
🗑
The Earth consists of a   show
🗑
The Earth consists of a   show
🗑
The lithosphere   show
🗑
show thinner, younger, and denser than continental crust.  
🗑
show basaltic rock  
🗑
Convection currents   show
🗑
Hot material   show
🗑
show are colliding plates which cause folded or thrust faulted mountains, subduction zones (volcanoes and trenches) and reverse faults.  
🗑
show dividing plates and cause Sea-Floor Spreading, Mid-Ocean Ridges, Rift Valleys, and Volcanoes. Normal faults are produced from this movement.  
🗑
show slide past each other and strike slip faults and Earthquakes are produced.  
🗑
show can result with any plate movement.  
🗑
show are not related to plate movement.  
🗑
A fault   show
🗑
Appalachian Mountains   show
🗑
show is associated with subduction, rifting, or sea floor spreading.  
🗑
An Ocean Plate   show
🗑
Three seismic stations   show
🗑
show the fastest and reach the Seismic station first.  
🗑
show through solides and liquids.  
🗑
show when and bend when they hit the liquid outer core.  
🗑
show do not travel through liquids.  
🗑
Weathering   show
🗑
show occurs in warm, humid climates.  
🗑
Mechanical Weathering   show
🗑
show the process by which Earth materials are transported by moving water, ice or wind. Gravity causes all these to happen.  
🗑
Streams and moving water   show
🗑
Deposition   show
🗑
show equals high relief areas  
🗑
High deposition   show
🗑
show settle out first.  
🗑
Sediment size from largest to smallest   show
🗑
As particle size increases   show
🗑
Soil Evolution starts   show
🗑
show be present in order to have soil.  
🗑
Soil profile consists of   show
🗑
show caves and sinkholes produced by acidic groundwater dissolving limestone.  
🗑
Valley and Ridge Province is   show
🗑
Ground water layers   show
🗑
show is a layer of rock that transports groundwater freely.  
🗑
show is an area where the water table reaches the land's surface.  
🗑
Hydrologic cycle includes   show
🗑
The Coastal Plain   show
🗑
Fossils are   show
🗑
show underlain by igneous and metamorphic rocks produced by ancient volcanoes.  
🗑
Piedmont is seperated by   show
🗑
show Oldest in State  
🗑
show the long parallel ridges composed of folded and faulted rocks that occurred during the collision of Africa and North America durint the Paleozoic.  
🗑
show underlain by sedimentary rocks.  
🗑
Coal resources are   show
🗑
show is found in nature, inorganic, solid, with a definite chemical composition and structure.  
🗑
Mineral properties depend on   show
🗑
show useful and profitable.  
🗑
show classified by composition and texture.  
🗑
Igneous Rocks are produced by   show
🗑
show Extrusive - TExture includes small mineral grains, glassy, air holes present. (Pumice, Basalt, Obsidian)  
🗑
show Equals Intrusive - Texture includes coarse or large mineral grains. (Granite)  
🗑
Metamorphic formed by   show
🗑
show foliated (banded) and non foliated.  
🗑
show slate, schist, gneiss.  
🗑
Non foliated include   show
🗑
Limestone morphs   show
🗑
Sandstone morphs   show
🗑
show from rock fragments, organic material, or chemical precipitation.  
🗑
Sedimentary are   show
🗑
show include clastic, organic, and chemical.  
🗑
show is formed both chemically and organically.  
🗑
show made of fragments - Conglomerate, sandstone, and shale.  
🗑
show limestone, coal, and gravel.  
🗑
show be replaced by nature at a rate close to the rate at which they are used. Inclues vegetation, water, and soil.  
🗑
Nonrenewable are   show
🗑
The Earth's Water Supply is   show
🗑
show is the remains, impressions, or other evidence of a former existenece of life preserved in rock.  
🗑
show mostly marine and are from all Era's in history.  
🗑
show the oldest rocks are found on the bottom of strata and the youngest on top of strata.  
🗑
show an igneous intrusion is younger than the layers it cuts across.  
🗑
Fossils, Superposition, and Cross-cutting are used to   show
🗑
show placing events in sequence without assigning exact numerical ages.  
🗑
Absolute time places   show
🗑
show determine the absolute age of rocks.  
🗑
Uranium dating is used to   show
🗑
show the ages of human artifacts.  
🗑
show 4.6 billion years old.  
🗑
show 2 per day  
🗑
show 2 per day  
🗑
show caused by the gravitational pull of the Earth and the Moon.  
🗑
Currents move from   show
🗑
Upwelling brings   show
🗑
show areas where salt water mixes with fresh water. Ex.: Chesapeak Bay  
🗑
Sea Level   show
🗑
show responsible for the first oxygen on Earth.  
🗑
Presently Blue Green Algae is   show
🗑
The ocean is the largest   show
🗑
The ocean drives   show
🗑
show mostly CO2 and very little O2.  
🗑
show 21% Oxygen, 78% Nitrogen, and 1% trace gases.  
🗑
Human activities such as burning fossil fuels has   show
🗑
show produce the Greenhouse effect.  
🗑
CFC's are decreasing   show
🗑
show receive the most direct radiation.  
🗑
Clouds form when   show
🗑
show deflections of the atmosphere and oceans due to rotation of Earth.  
🗑
A psychrometer measures   show
🗑
show air pressure.  
🗑
Highs are   show
🗑
show warm and wet.  
🗑
Wind is due to   show
🗑
Wind blows from   show
🗑
show quickly and produce rain at the Front.  
🗑
show slow and produce miles and miles of clouds.  
🗑
The highest pressure is   show
🗑
show clock-wise and outward.  
🗑
U.S. weather is dominated by   show
🗑
Weather moves   show
🗑
Summer Solstice is   show
🗑
Winter Soistice is   show
🗑
Solstice is when   show
🗑
Equinoxes is   show
🗑
Spring Equinoxes   show
🗑
show September 22nd  
🗑
The Earth is closer   show
🗑
The Earth rotates   show
🗑
The Earth revolves counter clock-wise   show
🗑
The Earth is   show
🗑
The moon has phases   show
🗑
show the Earth rotates.  
🗑
Parallax and Seasonal constellations   show
🗑
show Inner (rockey) and Outer (gaseous)  
🗑
show dirty snowballs in space and originate in the Oort cloud.  
🗑
show the sun's radiation.  
🗑
show rocky or metallic iron objects with origins between Mars and Jupiter.  
🗑
AU =   show
🗑
Light Years is   show
🗑
show was the 1st manned landing on the moon.  
🗑
Neil Armstrong   show
🗑
The Big-Bang   show
🗑
show explains that the planets formed from the condensing of our sun or solar nebulae.  
🗑
show Nebula, protostar, Yellow Main Sequence Star, Red Giant, White dwarf and black dwarf.  
🗑
show are a death stage of stars.  
🗑
We are located in   show
🗑
The three types of Galaxies   show
🗑
The Hubble Space telescope   show
🗑
show the Universe is expanding outward. This is used to support the Big Bang Theory.  
🗑
show from softest to hardest - Peat, Lignite, Bituminous, Anthracite.  
🗑
Unconformities are   show
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: knunley
Popular Earth Science sets