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OPW Test 4
Our Physical World Test Four
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Greenhouse Gas | Carbon Dioxide |
| H-R Diagram | Shows the main sequence of stars |
| Dew Point | Temperature at which condensation occurs |
| Cumulus | Big, billowy appearance; good vertical development |
| Igneous | Formed from molten rock material |
| Stratus | Cover much or all of the sky; gray appearance |
| Sedimentary | Made up of rock fragments or chemical precipitates |
| Fossils | Traces, remains, or imprints of once living organisms |
| Metamophic | Changed by heat, pressure, or chemically active fluids |
| What general relationship exists between the size of stars and their temperatures? | Small stars are cool and big stars are hot |
| What type of front has the potential to produce the most severe weather? | Cold front |
| Compared to a cold front, a warm front moves... | Slower |
| A boundary between two air masses is call a... | Front |
| In the "stair graph" activity, the Sun as located in the middle of the graph. This means... | the Sun is an average star |
| The symbol for wet, warm air mass is | cP |
| The term most closely associated with the size, shape, and boundary relations between adjacent minerals is..... | Luster |
| What type of pressure is associated with sinking air and clear or becoming clear, skies? | High |
| What is needed for condensation or precipitation to occur? | Cooling air, condensation nuclei, moisture or water |
| What type of rock would be associated with being foliated or non-foliated? | Metamorphic |
| Type of boundaries are associated with crust spreading apart | Divergent |
| Types of plate boundaries that produce volcanoes | Divergent oceanic, divergent continental, convergent oceanic, convergent oceanic-continental, transform oceanic, transform continental |
| Types of plate boundaries that involve subduction | Convergent oceanic, convergent oceanic-continental |
| Types of plate boundaries that are likely to produce earthquakes | All |
| streak | color in powdered form |
| luster | quality and quantity of light reflected |
| relative humidity | measure of moisture in the air |
| greenhouse gas | carbon dioxide |