Plate Tectonics
What is a tectonic plate
A large sheet of rock that floats on the mantle of the earth.
Why is The periodic rise and fall of the surface of the ocean resulting from the gravitational pull of the moon and Sun.
What is Erosion
Why is The movement of sediments
When the earth's magnetic poles switch, due to the earth's core changing direction
According to Lebron, where is Mrs. Spanu from
what is Romania
How do convergent plates meet
they go towards each other and one slides over the other.
Lebron wants to know a economic impact of el niño
Where is collapse of fishing industry, less jobs, floods in South America, droughts in Australia
What is chemical weathering?
She is chemical weathering occurs when the chemical composition of rocks changes through exposure to water or oxygen.
What is subduction?
What room number does Mrs Spanu reside in
Room 1120
Lebron is wondering how hydrothermal vents form. How do hydrothermal vents form?
Boom boom boom boom! They form when cold ocean water seeps through cracks in thin in the crust.
How do you calculate tidal range?
Who The high with the subsequent low of the same day.
How are Rocky Shores made?
Hello I am high weathering and high erosion with low sedimentation
What are the layers of the Earths interior
lithosphere
crust
mantle
outer core
inner core
What teacher award did Mrs. Spanu recieve
what is best dressed
How do abyssal plains form?
Occurring at transform boundaries, they happen when the sea floor spreads and fills with new sediment fr.
What is a spring tide?
Where is when the sun moon and earth are aligned and causes the greatest tidal ranges.
OHHH BLOCKED BY JAMES LEBRON JAMES WITH THE REJECTION. What are some characteristics of Muddy Shores?
Who is least exposed to weathering and erosion.
very shallow slope.
little to no water movement.
sedimentation is high.
Give the reason why continental drift was rejected at the time.
Couldn't prove how the plates where moving
What was Mrs. Spanus pass rate for Marine science last year
what is 94%
Name the three continents where the ring of fire occur off the coast of.
Asia, South America, North America
EXPLAIN ALL 7 STEPS OF GLOBAL COVEYER BELT/THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION.
How is
1.Starts in North Pole when cold water freezes to ice-leaving salt behind.
2. Denser water downwells, mixed with water column, until its at the bottom.
3.In Antarctica water gets colder and then splits.
4. On Current goes to the Indian Ocean
5. On Current goes to the Pacific Ocean
6. Water nears equator and warm/rises
7. Both warm currents go North, in Atlantic towards the North Pole
Where are deltas formed.
Lebron wants to add a little salt to his water. Describe at least 2 impacts to the Global Conveyer Belt when the Arctic Ocean has higher salinity levels.
1. Higher Arctic salinity increases dense water sinking, intensifying the Conveyor Belt's flow.
2. Enhanced thermohaline circulation adjusts heat transfer, impacting oceanic patterns.
3. Salty Arctic water could melt more ice, disrupting the Conveyor Belt's flow with fresh meltwater.
4. Altered flow may redistribute cold and warm water along the Conveyor Belt.
What is Mrs. Spanu's favorite animal (general animal not species)
What is a shark