Plate Tectonics
What are mountains?
This layer in a typical soil profile is the parent material.
What is the R horizon?
This characteristic of the earth is what largely determines the difference in seasons between the northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the axis/tilted axis?
This major convection cell takes warm, humid air away from the equator and drops hot, dry air north or south of the equator.
What is the Hadley cell?
This ocean is most affected by ENSO events.
What is the Pacific ocean?
This process occurs when oceanic crust is forced under continental crust.
What is subduction?
This type of soil is generally best for growing plants as it doesn't allow water and nutrients to pass through too fast, but also doesn't waterlog plant roots.
What is loam?
This gaseous layer absorbs harmful UV radiation and prevents it from reaching the surface of the earth.
What is the ozone layer?
This occurs when an area of high elevation prevents precipitation from reaching another location.
What is a rain shadow?
This phenomenon explains why hurricanes spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect.
This process drives the movement of tectonic plates and is dependent on density.
What is convective circulation/convection currents?
What is sand?
This location on earth typically receives the most intense solar radiation year round.
What is the equator?
Close proximity to this geological feature allows coastal areas to maintain stable temperatures after the sun sets.
What is the ocean/bodies of water?
These prevailing winds blow from east to west in the areas directly north and south of the equator.
What are the trade winds?
This area in the world is know for the numerous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis due to high tectonic plate activity.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
This nutrient found in soil is crucial to the development of seeds and fruits, and overall reproduction of the plant.
What is phosphorous?
This date is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere.
What is June 21st?
This phenomenon can occur if a body of water is colder than the surrounding atmosphere, causing the wind moving into a region to be cooler than the surrounding temperatures.
What is an inversion?
These ocean surface temperatures are colder than normal during La Nina.
What is the eastern Pacific ocean?
This occurs when magma breaks through a tectonic plate not near a plate boundary.
What is a hot spot?
This is the process of nutrients and other dissolved substances being carried down through soil layers in water.
What is leaching/eluviation?
This phenomenon occurs as gaseous ions charged by particles from space release energy in the form of light.
What are the northern/southern lights/ aurora borealis/australis?
The presence of this biotic factor can increase precipitation and decrease or stabilize the temperature in a region.
What is vegetation?
You would expect to se a decrease in marine life in the eastern pacific during this weather event.
What is El Nino?