Plate Tectonics & Soil & Misc
Seasons, Soil, and Stratosphere
Wind & Water
Climate & General Science
ENSO
100
This boundary exists at the San Andreas fault.
What is a transform boundary?
100
The constant tilt of the Earth's rotational axis as it orbits around the sun causes these.
What are seasons?
100
This is the direction in which the winds deflect in the southern hemisphere.
What is left?
100
This is created by the uneven solar radiation from the Earth's tilt.
What is wind?
100
Reduced upwelling will affect anchovy fishing in this way.
What is reduce it?
200
This type of boundary exists at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and increases the amount of Earth's crust.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which the vast majority of ozone found.
What is the stratosphere?
200
These are the percentages of N2, O2, and CO2 in the troposphere.
What are 78, 21, and .04?
200
This global area would receive 24 hours of daylight on 12/21.
What is E?
200
This is a negative environmental effect in an area with a decrease in precipitation.
What is...
drought, less surface water, aquifers not recharged, organisms can die / dry out, increased wildfires, desertification
300
This exists in Pacific Ocean and is the site of a large amount of volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
*This is not on the test* :)
300
This layer contains decomposing plant and animal matter.
What is A?
300
If a developer removes large trees, what would happen to the soil in the area?
What is... increased erosion /increase in temperature
300
This is an aspect an experiment that is not changed throughout an experiment.
What is the control? (controlled variable)
300
El Nino and La Nina occur in the ... (choose one)
Tropical East Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Arctic North Pacific
Temperate West Atlantic
Tropical Indian Ocean
What is the tropical east Pacific?
400
When glaciers melt, this is what happens to the salinity of the water nearby.
What is decreases?
400
This layer has little organic matter and accumulates soluble materials from other layers.
What is C?
400
This is the reason why rainforests are near the equator but deserts are at 30 degrees above and below it.
What are descending dry air currents?
400
The term for an area having little rainfall because it is sheltered from prevailing rain-bearing winds by a range of hills.
What is a rain shadow?
400
This is the major cause of El Nino climate changes.
What is warmer surface waters in the Pacific?
500
A student claims that a soil sample is a loam. In order for this to be true, it would have to contain sand, silt, and clay in these percentages.
What are ... (use soil texture triangle...)
500
The layer of Earth's atmosphere with the highest pressure; weather occurs here.
What is the troposhere?
500
There are concerns about the health of streams in a watershed in which there is road repair work in an area with many dairy farms. Of the following, which would be the best option for preventing sediment runoff into streams?
Have construction crews steepen the slopes of the valleys of streams near roadwork zones.
Maintain zones of grass at least 100m wide on the sides of streams in the area.
Construct at least one dam on a stream in the watershed to improve flood control.
Shift from dairy farming to corn planted in agricultural fields located within 100m of streams.
What is maintain zones of grass..
500
An irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond; characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December.
What is El Nino?
500
During an El Nino, Peru experiences these ocean temperatures and this amount of precipitation.
What are warmer and higher?