ASVAB General Science Exam Study Guide Solutions

ASVAB General Science Exam Study Guide Solutions Geology - ANSWER-science that deals with the history and composition of the earth and its life crust - ANSWER-outermost layer of the earth mantle - ANSWER-beneath the crust, core - ANSWER-center of the earth plates - ANSWER-rigid upper part of the mantle fault lines - ANSWER-places where the plates slide relative to each other richter scale - ANSWER-measures intensity of an earthquake igneous rocks - ANSWER-granite, pumice, basalt, obsidian sedimentary - ANSWER-shale, sandstone, gypsum, dolomite, coal metamorphic - ANSWER-marble, slate, gneiss, guartzite ©EMILLECT2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 2/10 most fossils are found in - ANSWER-sedimentary rock how old is the earth? - ANSWER-4.6 billion years old first life appreared on earth? - ANSWER-3.5 billion years ago Meteorology - ANSWER-study of weather, atmosphere, and atmospheric phenomena troposphere - ANSWER-where weather takes place stratosphere - ANSWER-where the ozone layer is mesosphere - ANSWER-where falling stars are thermosphere - ANSWER-temperatures increase as high as 2000 C warm front - ANSWER-warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass cold front - ANSWER-cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass stationary front - ANSWER-two air masses meet and neither is displaced stratus - ANSWER-low-hanging, broad, flat clouds that blanket the sky cumulus - ANSWER-massive clouds that are puffy cirrus - ANSWER-thin, wispy clouds that occur higher in the atmosphere ©EMILLECT2024/2025 ACADEMIC YEAR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST PUBLISH OCTOBER 2024 Page 3/10 sun - ANSWER-classified as a G2V star or yellow dwarf planets closest to sun - ANSWER-mercury, venus, earth, and mars terrestial planets - ANSWER-four planets closest to sun outer planets - ANSWER-jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune which planets have rings? - ANSWER-jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune asteroids - ANSWER-meteorioids, small bodies in the solar system, when they fall into the earth's graviation field they are seen as falling stars comets - ANSWER-mixture of ice and dust why do we have tides - ANSWER-because of the gravitational pull that exists between the moon and earth when do tides occur - ANSWER-twice a day, when the moon is at the points closest to and farthest from the affected mass of water meter - ANSWER-slightly more than three feet (39.4in) kilometer - ANSWER-1000 meters