SOIL
Stacks on Stacks
Straight Flowin
Earth is Lit
Plates
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The soil horizon with the greatest amount of organic nutrients.
What is the O Horizon?
100
Where 80% of atmospheric gases are located.
What is the troposphere?
100

The four named oceans in the one global ocean.

What are the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans?



100

The reason the Earth is warmer at the equator when compared to the poles.

What is the angle of incidence of insolation?

100

Giant waves caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions under the sea.

What are Tsunamis ?

200
An even mixture of soil composition which is well-suited for growing crops.
What is Loam?
200
The forces (two) responsible for creating ocean gyres.
What are Earth's rotation, and atmospheric convection cells?
200
The movement of cold freshwater to the surface near coastlines.
What is upwelling?
200

The cause of the seasons on Earth.

What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?

200

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, a path along the Pacific Ocean where most of active volcanoes and earthquakes occur.

What is the Ring of Fire?

300
The physical breakdown of geologic materials.
What is mechanical weathering?
300

The layer of the earth that has an exponential increase in temperature as altitude increase

What is thermosphere?

300
This causes oceans to have predictable global currents.

Global Wind Patterns

300
As these increase (two), temperature decreases.
What are latitude and altitude?
300

Long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries

What are Island arcs?

400

Occurs when runoff water forms small channels as it concentrates down a slope. 

What is rill erosion?

400

The part of atmosphere that absorbs most of the UV light from the sun.

What is the ozone layer?

400

Area, length, slope, soil, vegetation types, and landforms that divide the adjoining areas.

What are the characteristics of a watershed?

400
The measurement of of reflectivity of different materials.
What is albdeo?
400
Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides under another, are created at these boundaries.
What is a convergent boundary?
500
The area of land where precipitation collects and flows into one body of water.
What is a watershed?
500
The main cause for the striped pattern of biomes across the globe, and the amount of precipitation in those biomes
What are atmospheric convection cells?
500

This occurs every 2-7 years where trade winds in the tropical pacific reverse directions.

What is El Nino Year

500

The phenomena that leaves leeward mountain sides dry. Responsible for the western Andes being the driest place on Earth. 

What is the rain shadow effect?

500

These often form as a result of “triple junctions,” a type of divergent boundary where three tectonic plates meet at about 120° angles.

What are rift valleys?

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