Tectonic Plates
At a transform boundary, tectonic plates move ______ each other, causing frequent earthquakes.
What is past each other?
This is the topsoil layer, rich in organic material and critical for plant growth.
What is the A horizon?
This is the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere, where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
The tilt of Earth's axis is responsible for this yearly phenomenon.
What are the seasons?
A region where an oceanic plate sinks beneath a continental plate into the mantle.
What is the subduction zone?
This Earth layer is responsible for the movement of tectonic plates
What is the Asthenosphere layer?
This horizon contains weathered parent material and very little organic matter.
What is the C horizon?
The auroras occur in this atmospheric layer.
What is the thermosphere?
This area of Earth receives the most direct solar radiation year-round.
What is the equator?
The amount of space between soil particles that can hold air or water.
What is Porosity?
This plate boundary is associated with shallow earthquakes and sea-floor spreading.
What is the divergent plate boundary?
The three major components of soil texture.
What are sand, silt, and clay?
In this layer, temperature increases with altitude due to ozone absorption of UV radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
These are the three major atmospheric circulation cells found in each hemisphere.
What are the Hadley, Ferrel, and Polar cells?
An area of land where all water drains to a common point (river, lake, ocean).
What is a Watershed?
This land formation is most likely to form at a convergent plate boundary between an oceanic and continental plate.
What are ocean trenches?
This is the ideal soil for agriculture, made of an even mix of sand, silt, and clay.
What is loam?
This is the coldest layer of the atmosphere, where meteors often burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
This effect, caused by Earth’s rotation, deflects winds to the right in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?
A large-scale atmospheric convection cell in which air rises at the equator and sinks at 30° latitude.
What is a Hadley Cell?
The Himalayas are an example of mountains formed by this plate boundary.
What is a continental-continental convergent plate boundary?
The ability of soil to allow water to flow through it is called this.
What is permeability?
List the atmospheric layers in order from Earth's surface upward.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere layers?
This global climate event brings warm ocean water to the western coast of South America, disrupting weather worldwide.
What is El Niño?
A belt of rising air near the equator has high rainfall and thunderstorm activity.
What is the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)?