earth and space science midterm review
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The planet with an orbit most like a circle is __.
Venus
The planet that has an equatorial diameter closest to Mercury is __.
Mars
The planet that spins on its axis the fastest is __.
Jupiter
The planet whose axis is tilted almost completely upside down is __.
Uranus
The duration of time needed for carbon to oxygen to take place in a massive star is __.
About 100,000 years
During nucleosynthesis, Helium turns into __.
Carbon
The approximate luminosity of Rigel in solar units is __.
About 120,000 times the Sun's luminosity
The approximate color and temperature of G class stars are __.
Yellow; about 5,300–6,000 K
As a red giant star turns into a white dwarf star, its temperature and luminosity .
increases; decreases
The intermediate stage of a massive star is __.
Red supergiant
It takes __ for a Red Dwarf to turn into a White Dwarf.
Trillions of years (longer than the age of the universe)
The city located at 42°30’N, 76°30’W is __.
Ithaca, New York
The approximate latitude and longitude of Watertown is __.
About 44° N, 76° W
Geneva and Geneseo (New York) are approximately __ apart.
About 80 km
The two cells that meet at an area of subtropical high pressure are __.
Hadley cell and Ferrel cell
The approximate latitude of the Northern Hemisphere westerlies is __.
About 30°–60° N
The boundary between the stratosphere and troposphere is called __.
The tropopause
The approximate height of the tropopause at the equator is __.
About 16 km
The approximate latitude of the Northern Hemisphere subtropical jet stream is __.
About 30° N
The approximate altitude of the Polar Front Jet Stream in km is __.
About 9 km
The Labrador Current is a __ current.
Cold
The ocean current found at 60° S is __.
Antarctic Circumpolar Current (West Wind Drift)
Coastal cities in the southern half of South America have warmer temperatures on the __ side of the continent.
East side
The ocean currents in the South Atlantic Ocean spin __.
Counterclockwise
The type of electromagnetic energy with a wavelength shorter than the visible spectrum is __.
Ultraviolet
The color of visible light with a wavelength of 5.1 × 10² nm is __.
Green
As frequency gets larger, the value of wavelength __.
decreases
The only element listed in the Emission Spectra chart that has a spectral line with a wavelength of 685 nm is __.
Neon
Most of the spectral lines for nitrogen fall into the range of __.
Violet/blue
The kind of front represented on a weather map by a symbol with sharp points on one side and round bumps on the other side is __.
Stationary front
If this front is shown on a weather map as a straight line with sharp points on top, the wind is moving toward __.
the top of the paper