EARTHICAL SCIENCE



EARTH SCIENCE

PRACTICE MIDTERM QUESTIONS NAME ___________

DATE ____ HOUR _

INTRO/ASTRONOMY

1. Graphs belong in which part of a lab report?

2. The average adult male is approximately how tall using metric units?

3. 874 g= _______ mg

4. If solar minimum happened in 2017, when would solar max be?

5. 10km = _____ miles (approximately) 100 km= __________ miles

6. Why can’t Venus ever be seen in retrograde from Earth?

7. What time will moon rise in position #5?

8. What phase is the moon in position #3?

9. What phase is the moon in position #8?

10. What positions will experience neap tides?

11. What position may experience a lunar eclipse?

12. What causes high and low tides on any day?

13. How are sunspots created?

14. A planet is 78,000,000,000 km from the sun. How long does it take sunlight to reach it? (light travles at 300,000km/sec) Express your answer in hours

15. A solar day is _________ than a sidereal day. Why?

16. Which stage of a normal star is the brightest?

17. Which color star is the hottest?

18 . Which stage will follow a main sequence star?

19. What information does cosmic background radiation tell astronomers?

20 .What problems can CMEs and solar flares cause?

21. What part of the sun is only seen during an eclipse?

22. What is a refracting telescope good for?

23. What stage will our Sun end as?

24. If a star is red shifting, what does this mean?

25. Which stage would follow the stars in F?

26. What color are the stars in area F? B? D?

27. Based on current evidence (describe evidence), what will happen to the universe in the future?

28. How old is the universe?

29. What evidence is there to support Big Bang? (3 things)

30. Pluto is no longer considered a planet because _________________________

31. List 3 advantages radio telescopes have over optical telescopes

32. What is the biggest misconception about the Big Bang theory?

33. Describe how the radial velocity and transit methods are used to find exoplanets.

34. If the top spectrum is the reference spectrum, and the bottom spectrum is a star. Is the star moving towards or away from the observer?

METEOROLOGY

1. Which states of water change during condensation? Is heat released or absorbed?

2. Which states of water change during evaporation? Is heat released or absorbed?

3. If temperature rises, relative humidity ______?

4. If the wet bulb is 10 C and the dry bulb is 12 C, what is the relative humidity? (use chart)

5. What type of clouds are associated with a warm front?

6. Southeast wind in Michigan brings this type of air mass.

7. Maritime tropical air masses bring this type of weather.

8. What is the difference between a maritime and continental climate?

9. Diagram a sea breeze. (include pressures and temp)

10. What direction do L pressure systems move (inward or outward)

11. How is the weather on a windward side of a mountain different than the leeward side?

12. How does sinking air change? (temp and humidity)

13. How is stratospheric ozone being destroyed? What problems may this cause?

14. Where is the jet stream located?

15. What states of matter can nitrogen be in during the nitrogen cycle?

How do plants get the nitrogen they need?

16. Is air rising or sinking at pt. A?

17. Which letter has the warmest temp?

18. What is the wind direction at C?

19. What air mass is affecting D?

20. What are the sky conditions at A?

22. Where are the sun’s rays directly hitting at A?

B? C?

Which letter is first day of spring in the N. Hemisphere?

Which letter is the first day of summer in the S. Hemisphere?

23. At point C, how many hours of daylight does the South Pole receive?

24. Give an example of conduction.

25. What state of matter are clouds made of?

26. What conditions are necessary for lake effect snow to occur?

27. Due to adiabatic changes, sinking air will become _______ with ____ humidity.

28. if dew point is 2 C and air temp is 8 C, what is the relative humidity?

29. if sea level temp is 10 C and the dew point is -5 C, at what elevation will clouds form?

What is the temperature at 2000 m?

30. If sea level temp is 28 C and dew point has not been reached, what is the temperature at 3000 meters?

31. What type of weather is associated with a continental polar air mass?

32. What process creates frost?

33. If dew point is 5 C and sea level temperature is 4 C, what elevation will clouds form?

What is the temperature at 500 meters?

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