Geology
This type of tectonic plate boundary resulted in seafloor spreading in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This is the horizon that contains the most amount of organic matter, including partially decomposed organic matter known as humus.
What is the O Horizon?
This is the layer of the atmosphere where weather is found.
What is the troposphere?
This climate pattern is categorized by more intense warmer sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific Ocean.
What is La Niña?
This soil horizon is categorized by mostly weathered parent material.
What is the C Horizon?
This area is where 80% of volcanoes are located in the world.
What is the Ring of Fire?
This is a term to describe soil that has an equal proportion of silt, sand, and clay particles.
What is loam or loam soil?
This is the type of air circulation cell that is found between 0 and 30 degrees.
What is a Hadley cell?
This is the term that describes cool, nutrient-rich waters rising to the surface to replace warm, nutrient-poor waters.
What is upwelling?
This is the name of the ocean current that brings warm water from Florida to Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This is formed only on a convergent plate boundary when a denser plate goes under a less dense plate.
What is a subduction zone or subduction?
This is a measure of how much water soil can retain.
What is water holding capacity?
This is the latitude that experiences descending, cool, dry air resulting in desert biomes.
What is 30 degrees?
This is the cardinal direction location in the Pacific Ocean that typically experiences precipitation and warm temperatures in a La Nada (normal) year.
What is West or Western Pacific Ocean?
This phenomenon is what causes objects to deflect and leads to the curvature of winds on Earth.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This is a term that describes how much light is reflected by a surface.
What is albedo?
This can occur as a result of tilling, making it harder for plant roots to be established in the soil.
What is soil compaction or plowpan?
This is the term to describe the movement of ocean water circulation throughout Earth driven by density differences.
What is thermohaline circulation?
This is the type of wind pattern that either weakens or reverses which causes El Niño.
What are trade winds?
This is the layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer and experiences increasing temperatures with increasing altitude.
What is the stratosphere?
This is a general term to describe the movement of sediment by wind, water, or human activity.
What is soil erosion?
This is the type of particle found in soil that will have the highest porosity.
What is sand?
This is a term to describe the side of the mountain range that experiences dry, arid conditions as a result of the rain shadow effect.
What is leeward side or the "land" side?
This climate pattern is when warmer and wetter climates are on the coast of the western side of North and South America.
What is El Niño?
This is the type of weathering that occurs as a result of acid precipitation.
What is chemical weathering?