The Land
Soil particles are made of these 3 groups
What are sand, silt, and clay?
Layer of the atmosphere that contains the most ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
What is the Chesapeake bay an example of?
What is a watershed?
Insolation
What is the amount of incoming solar radiation on an area?
When the northern hemisphere is in summer, the southern hemisphere is in...
What is winter?
The Himalayan Mountains are an example of what boundary?
Why does the stratosphere have a higher temperature?
What is ozone formation?
What is El nino?
Convergent Boundary
What is where plates collide, causing one to subduct beneath the other?
Increases productivity of fisheries
What is La Nina?
Soil horizon that contains the most organic matter
What is level O?
Trade winds move from...
What is east to west?
Causes wetter conditions in Southeast Asia/Australia
What is La Nina?
Watershed
What is an area of land that collects all surface water and precipitation?
Soil horizon parent material is found in
What is soil horizon C?
Soil is formed when this material is weathered
What is parent material?
Layer of the atmosphere where the northern lights occur
What is the thermosphere?
What is runs downhill along the watershed or percolates through the soil to join groundwater?
Rainshadow effect
What is the leeward (sheltered) side of a mountain receives less rain than the windward (wind-facing) side?
What is a Hadley cell?
What is where warm air rises at the equator, moves toward the poles at high altitudes, cools, sinks in the subtropics and returns toward the equator along the surface.
What is soil horizon R?
What is bedrock?
Global wind patterns are caused by this
What is uneven solar heating/radiation of the Earth’s surface and/or the Coriolis effect?
Typically lasts for 9-12 months
BOTH El Nino and La Nina
Coriolis effect
What is Earth’s rotation causes air (or water) to curve to the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern?
What moves at the same rate of your toenails?
What are plate tectonics?