Geosphere
This is the term for when a tectonic plate goes under another plate
What is subduction?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
These kinds of currents are found in the geosphere, the atmosphere, and the hydrosphere
What are convection currents?
Name three causes of climate change?
What are burning fossil fuels, deforestation, transportation, agriculture, livestock?
This is the term for a species that lives in only one habitat or ecosystem
What is endemic?
The location directly above an earthquake’s focus, where the shaking is usually strongest
What is the epicenter?
This is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon?
What is the location?
What are tides?
Name three effects of climate change?
What are rising sea levels, more extreme weather, loss of habitats, health risks, glacier/snow melt?
This is the term for a group of the same species living in the same area at the same time
The molten rock beneath Earth's surface is called this; once it erupts, it’s called something else
What is magma (and lava once erupted)?
These rapidly rotating columns of air form over land during severe thunderstorms.
What are tornadoes?
Named for a baby, this is the southern oscillation that causes warmer weather along the west coast of the Americas.
What is El Niño?
This human activity is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change
What is burning fossil fuels?
In this relationship, one organism benefits while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is commensalism?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
This boundary type is where most of Earth’s strongest earthquakes and explosive volcanoes occur, due to one tectonic plate sinking beneath another. Name the boundary and the geologic process.
What is a convergent boundary and subduction?
If there are cumulonimbus clouds in the sky, this is the type of weather you'd expect to see
What is rain (or possibly thunderstorms)?
This is where a river meets the sea...
What is a mouth?
This type of energy, like solar and wind, helps reduce climate change because it doesn’t produce greenhouse gases
What is renewable energy?
These are the ABC components of an ecosystem
What are abiotic, biotic, and cultural?
This is the name of the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago before breaking apart into the continents we know today.
What is Pangaea?
This layer of the atmosphere is where all the weather happens, including clouds, rain, and storms.
What is the troposphere?
This is why weather in northern Europe is warmer than weather at the same latitude in North America
What is the Gulf Stream?
This is how humans are responding to ~ or anticipating ~ the effects of Climate Change
What is to adapt or mitigate?
This is the type of graph would you most likely want if you were measuring the growth of a plant species at intervals over time.
What is a line graph?