Tectonic Plates
What are tectonic plates?
Pieces of the Earth's crust.
What are the 3 classifications?
Active, dormant, extinct
what is the greenhouse effect?
Gases trapping solar rediation in the atmosphere.
What is transboundary pollution?
its pollution that travels from on country to a nother.
what is globalization?
A process in which diffrent people from diffrent counties enteract with each other economacally, and also share information, technology and culture.
How are mountains formed?
When two tectomic plates collide.
what are the 2 types?
Shield, cone
What are the consequences of the enhanced greenhouse effect?
more extream weather conditions and warming of the planet.
what are some examples of transboundary pollution?
Acid rain, Oil spils, air polution(smog, dust)
what are the postives of globalization?
Jobs, expanding knowledge, Travell, spreading knowledge and information and sharing ones culture.
What is the name of fold located near san Francisco?
san Andrea
What is the most famous volcanic eruption.
Mount Vesuvius eruption
What is the diffrence between Natural greenhouse effect and enhanced greenhouse effect?
Enhancd greenhouse effect is human made
How does Pollution travel from one pace to a nother?
Wind, river, ocean and the grasshoper effect
what are the negatives?
overpopulation, neo colonialism, consumerism, threatening local buissneses and TNCs.
what is the the layer called where tectonic plates are located?
lithosphere
How are Volcanoes formed?
Through diverging and converging of boundaries
which Gas makes up the majority of Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
Carbon Dioxide
what are the consequences of acid rain?
Dameges and potentially kills plants, harmes wild life, acidifis Lakes, streams and marches
Why are most products you buy manufacture in Bangladesh, china etc ?
Because its cheap
what are the 3 types of bounderies?
Convergent, divergent, transform
What is the Biggest Volcanic eruption in modern history?
Tambora eruption
How many degrees will the temparature rise on averege in the next 30 years?
1-1,5 degrees celcius
what does POP stand for?
Persistent Organic Pollutants
What are one of the earliest instances of trade between two counties?
Indus river civilization and mesapotamia