Plate Tectonics & The Earth
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Climate & General Science
ENSO
100
This boundary exists at the San Andreas fault in California.
What is a TRANSFORM BOUNDARY?
100
You have a soil sample and want to order the three main components in the order of increasing particle size.
What is CLAY - SILT - SAND?
100
Circulating air masses that move at an angle downward and pick up moisture, then move straight up and form clouds.
What is a HADLEY CELL?
100
These are created because of Earth's tilt.
What are SEASONS?
100
ENSO is the abbreviation for this.
What is the abbreviation for El Niño Southern Oscillation?
200
The layer of Earth's atmosphere with the highest pressure; weather occurs here.
What is the TROPOSPHERE?
200
This layer contains decomposing plant and animal matter.
What is A?
200
This causes a deflection of objects away from the equator and is caused by Earth's rotation.
What is the CORIOLIS EFFECT?
200
This global area would receive 24 hours of daylight on 12/21.
What is E?
200
It connects the world's oceans, mixing salt contents, nutrients, and temperature of the water.
What is thermohaline circulation?
300
This creates mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and seafloor spreading at divergent plate boundaries.
Which is RISING MAGMA?
300
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which the vast majority of ozone is found.
What is the STRATOSPHERE?
300
If a developer removes large trees, what are two things that would happen to the soil in the area?
What is INCREASED EROSION and INCREASE IN TEMPERATURE?
300
This is an aspect of an experiment that is not changed throughout the experiment.
What is the CONTROL VARIABLE?
300
They blow moist air from West to East.
Which are TRADE WINDS?
400
This exists in the Pacific Ocean and is the site of a large amount of volcanoes and Earthquake zones.
What is the RING OF FIRE?
400
This is the coldest place on Earth with -100 degrees Celsius?
What is the MESOSPHERE?
(I hope the Celsius didn't throw you off too much...)
400
This is the reason why deserts are at 30 degrees above and below the equator.
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 Niño climate changes.
What is warmer surface waters in the Pacific?
500
It is a flexible, semi-molten layer of the Earth and is located beneath the Lithosphere.
What is the ASTHENOSPHERE?
500
These are the percentages of N2, O2, and CO2 in the troposphere.
What are 78%, 21%, and .04%?
500
This is the pollution with nutrients, such as nitrites and phosphate, in water.
What is EUTROPHICATION?
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?