Environmental
What are the U.S. laws, amendments, and extensions that control air pollution on a national level?
Clean Air Acts
What is the most destructive force of a hurricane?
Wind
What is the combination of three air masses to form a Y shaped front?
Occluded Front
What layer of soil contains less organic material and more mineral material than the other layers?
Subsoil
Who proved the heliocentric view of the solar system through his telescope observations?
Galileo Galilei
When soaring birds want to rise higher in the atmosphere, they often will find a column of rising air, called a thermal, and circle around the rising air until they reach their desired altitude. What method of heat transfer causes the thermal?
Convection, because warm air rises through cold air.
What is a device that safely starts and controls a fission chain reaction called?
Nuclear reactor
An instrument used to measure the speed of the wind is a ________________________
Weather Vane
What is the sandy gently sloping underwater plain that borders the coasts of continents?
Continental Shelf
What forms when rocks along one side of a fault move horizontally along the fault?
Strike-slip fault
Which planet has the fastest rotation?
Jupiter
Throughout the year, the length of a sidereal day does not change. Why not?
The stars do not seem to move as Earth orbits the sun.
What fossil fuel is a dark, oily liquid consisting primarily of hydrocarbons?
Petroleum or Crude oil
Which stage of a thunderstorm ends with a hue cumulonimbus cloud that has no precipitation hitting the ground?
Cumulus stage
As it moves from the first quarter to full, the moon is describes as waning crescent. True/False; and if false what is the correct answer?
False/Waxing Gibbous
What type of volcano ours out highly fluid lava during its mild eruptions to produce a broad, gently sloping cone?
Shield Volcano
What term describes a star that is always above the horizon at a given latitude?
Circumpolar
The oldest form of renewable energy obtained from plant and animal products is ___________________
Biomass energy
What is a system that removes certain gases and particles from industrial exhaust?
Scrubber
What is the first visible sign that a tornado might be forming from a mesocyclone?
Wall Cloud
What layer of the atmosphere acts like a giant mirror bouncing certain types of radio wave back down toward the ground?
Ionosphere
What sedimentary rock consists of rough, angular fragments embedded in hardened sand or clay?
Breccia
Which constellation contains the brightest summer star?
Lyra
A situation in which warm air rests on top of cold air trapping the cold air against Earth's surface is called an Atmospheric inversion. True/False; if false what is the correct answer?
False: Temperate inversion
What group of long-living halogen compounds are supposedly the primary cause of ozone depletion?
Chlorofluorocarbons
What instrument is used to measure the distance from the ground to the base of clouds?
Ceilometer
What convection cell exists between latitude 30 degrees and latitude 60 degrees?
Temperate cell
Which view claims that understanding modern geological processes is the key to understanding the earth's geological history?
Uniformitarianism
What was the United States first launched space station?
Environmentalists usually claim that recent rises in global temperature are caused by human release of ______________________
Carbon Dioxide
What term describes someone who believes humans are merely passing through the earth and have no claim to anything on it?
Preservationist
What type of cloud forms a low, heavy layer of gray puffs and is the most frequent type observed?
stratocumulus
The technique used to dramatically increase the resolution of radio telescope images by combining signals from multiple telescopes is called __________________.
Interferometry
Which group of biogeochemical cycles recycle nutrients found in soil and rock?
Sedimentary cycles
What type of orbit crosses the equator at the same local mean solar time on every orbit?
Sun-Synchronous orbit
The sun's gravitation pulls more strongly on closer planets