Waves
Atmospheric circulation
minerals
Rocks/earths interior
plate tectonics
100
A dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands.
What is a storm surge?
100
The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, where all weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
Name four of five classifications of a mineral.
-naturally occurring
-solid crystalline substance
-generally inorganic
-specific chemical composition
-specific atomic arrangement in 3D space.
100
Molten rock beneath the earth's surface
what is magma?
100
The san andres fault is a strike-slip fault are what kind of vaults?
transfrom plate boundrey
200
The low points on a wave.
What is the trough?
200
The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents, gows right in the northern hemisphere, left in the southern hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?
200
Igneous rocks formed from lava that cools rapidly on Earth's surface, resulting in fine-grained, glassy, or vesicular textures
What are extrusive rocks?
200
what is earth 3 distinct layers?
crust, mantle, and core
200
rift valleys, such as the great rift valley in africa, are created by
divergent plate bounderies
300
The movement of deep, cold, and nutrient-rich water to the surface
What is upwelling?
300
what is occurring during el nino?
the walker circulation sell is disrupted, causing low pressure and warm temps and frequent rain in the western pacific, with worldwide effects
300
Silicate where all four O atoms shared by adjacent tetrahedra.
What is a framework silicates (4 shared).
300
silt stone is an example of what type of rock?
lithogeneous sedimentary rock
300
Sciensists who originally proposed the concept of continental drift?
Who is alfred wegener?
400
The movement of air from sea to land during the day.
What is a sea breeze?
400
a large-scale atmospheric convection cell in which air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitudes, typically about 30° north or south.
What are the hadley cells?
400
Silicate where two O atoms of each tetrahedron bond to an adjacent tetrahedra.
What is a single chain silicates?
400
where on earth do ocean sediments tend to be the thickest? why is this the case
Ocean sediments are thickest at continental margins (shelves, slopes, rises) and areas near major river deltas, primarily due to massive sediment input from land via rivers, wind, and glaciers, combined with long-term accumulation on old, subsiding crust, creating basins that trap sediments
400
Scientist who proposed the concept of seafloor spreading.
Who is Harry Hess?
500
A compressed breaking wave that builds up over a short distance and surges forward as it breaks. It is characteristic of abrupt beach slopes.
What is a surging breaker?
500
Draw the atmospheric and prevailing winds created by the Coriolis effect.
500
two minerals that have the same chemical composition but a different crystal lattice structure.
What is a polymorph?
500
What process does the above image describe?
Bowens reaction series, the sequence in which minerals crystallize from cooling magma, determining igneous rock composition and mineral stability.
500
Draw and explain the seven steps of the wilson cycle.
