Science Exam

Front 1

The change from a solid state directly to a gaseous state is called sublimation

Back 1

True

Front 2

Condensation nuclei are microscopic particles of material, such as smoke or salt, around which the tiny water droplets form

Back 2

True

Front 3

If warm air replaces cold air it is a cold front

Back 3

False

Front 4

When air moves from the sea to the shore it is called a land breeze

Back 4

False

Front 5

A valley breeze involves less dense mountain air rising and being replaced by cooler, denser valley air

Back 5

True

Front 6

Foehn means snow eater

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False

Front 7

Rock is defined as the solid material in the earth's crust consisting of one or more minerals or organic materials

Back 7

True

Front 8

Mineral sulfides are composed of one or more metals and sulfur

Back 8

True

Front 9

Minerals that emit light while absorbing radiation from another source are phosphorescent

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False

Front 10

Precipitation acidified by air pollution is known as acid rain

Back 10

True

Front 11

The buildup of raindrops by the joining of smaller drops is called coalescence

Back 11

True

Front 12

The collision of horizontal air currents is called convergence

Back 12

True

Front 13

When a cool air mass and a cold air mass trap a warm air mass between the emit can be called an occluded front

Back 13

True

Front 14

If 18 seconds elapse between a lightning flash and the sound of thunder then the storm is 6 km. away

Back 14

True

Front 15

Fixed temperatures can be referred to as fiducial points

Back 15

True

Front 16

Drizzle and freezing rain are examples of liquid precipitation

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True

Front 17

A line of violent thunderstorms is known as a squall line

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True

Front 18

A warm air mass is cooler than the surface over which it passes

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False

Front 19

A low pressure area in the atmosphere is an anticyclone

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False

Front 20

A low pressure zone caused by the rising of warm air is the geostrophics

Back 20

False

Front 21

A place that sailors used to dump heavy cargo overboard is called the horse latitudes

Back 21

True

Front 22

In the Western Pacific region hurricanes are known as cyclones

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False

Front 23

The left side of a hurricane is called the dangerous semicircle

Back 23

False

Front 24

An ore contains only one kind of atom and is therefore a pure element

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False

Front 25

A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline, and solid with a definite chemical composition is an element

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False

Front 26

The Mohs scale refers to a hardness

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True

Front 27

Based on evidence by creation scientists, the canopy theory was not really a possibility for the earth's climate

Back 27

True

Front 28

The earth's core contains about 20-21% of the earth's volume

Back 28

False

Front 29

The combination of an upper mantle segment and the crust is called the asthenosphere

Back 29

False

Front 30

The crust is thicker under the mountains than it is under the oceans

Back 30

True

Front 31

A change in speed of an earthquake wave is called a seismologists wave

Back 31

False

Front 32

The potassium-uranium method helps to date the age of rocks

Back 32

False

Front 33

A native mineral contains only on kind of atom and is therefore a pure element

Back 33

True

Front 34

One of the theories of how the dinosaurs died involves a meteorite crashing into the sea

Back 34

True

Front 35

There is biblical evidence that dinosaurs lived when humans were alive

Back 35

True

Front 36

Most of the water in our atmosphere enters as water vapor by vaporization from the ocean

Back 36

False

Front 37

The change from vapor to water is evaporation

Back 37

False

Front 38

A change in speed experienced inside the earth is called the disembark moho

Back 38

False

Front 39

This crust is thicker under the oceans than under the oceans than the continents

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False

Front 40

James Ussher concluded that creation began in the year 2004 B.C.

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False

Front 41

There is an equal amount of carbon 14 to carbon 12 in an organisms that is dead

Back 41

False

Front 42

Mackerel sky refers to an altocumulus cloud

Back 42

False

Front 43

Fog is a cloud so low that it touches the ground

Back 43

True

Front 44

Middle clouds have the prefix cirro

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False

Front 45

Coalescence is the buildup of raindrops by the combining of many smaller drops

Back 45

True

Front 46

Freezing rain occurs when supercooled water falls as rain and freezes on everything it touches

Back 46

True

Front 47

Sleet are round chunks of ice that form from large rain droplets that freeze in clouds containing strong updrafts

Back 47

False

Front 48

All forms of moisture falling from the atmosphere is called precipitation

Back 48

True

Front 49

Dew forms when a cool surface such as a plant leaf or a windshield comes in contact with a humid air mass

Back 49

True

Front 50

On the pH scale an acid is considered 8-14

Back 50

False

Front 51

Tornadoes occuring at sea are called tsunami

Back 51

False

Front 52

Most tornadoes touch down between 3:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.

Back 52

False

Front 53

If the atmospheric pressure is written as 247- then it probably would be written as 1024.7

Back 53

True

Front 54

Lighting known as heat lightning is when you can't hear the thunder beyond 10 miles

Back 54

True

Front 55

The temperature in a lightning bolt can be as much as 50,000 *F

Back 55

True

Front 56

A waterspout is more intense than a tornado

Back 56

False

Front 57

The smaller the diameter of the eye of the storm, the more violent the storm

Back 57

True

Front 58

The most abundant class of minerals is the oxides

Back 58

False

Front 59

An ore contains only one kind of atom and is therefore considered a pure element

Back 59

False

Front 60

Mineral sulfides are composed of of one or more metals and sulfur

Back 60

True

Front 61

The command module of the Apollo spacecraft landed on the moon

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False

Front 62

The Hubble Space Telescope is a probe

Back 62

False

Front 63

A sun-synchronous orbit is actually an earth orbit

Back 63

True

Front 64

The continuous mixing of cold and warm air occurs only in the troposphere

Back 64

True

Front 65

The troposphere is the only atmospheric layer to have winds

Back 65

False

Front 66

Since warm air rises, the troposphere is the coolest layer of the attmosphere

Back 66

False

Front 67

Auroras occur when charged particles escaped from the ionosphere into the magnetosphere

Back 67

False

Front 68

God created the atmosphere on the second day of the Creation week

Back 68

True

Front 69

The envelope of gases surrounding the earth is the atmosphere

Back 69

False

Front 70

Jet streams are fast winds that travel in paths in the thermosphere

Back 70

False

Front 71

Atmospheric pressure is the weight of gases per unit area

Back 71

True