Volcanoes
Atmosphere
Wind
Climate
Ecosystems
100
Forms along plate boundaries where there is a weak spot in the Earth's crust
What is a Volcano?
100
As you increase your elevation
What is decreasing air pressure?
100
Caused by differences in air pressure
What is wind?
100
Long-term average condition of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area
What is climate?
100
Living part of a habitat
What is biotic factors?
200
A string of volcanic islands
What is an island arc?
200
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
What are the 4 main layers of the atmosphere?
200
Causes air molecules to expand and become less dense
What is heat?
200
Climate that has relatively mild winters and cool summers
What is a marine or maritime climate?
200
the non-living parts of an organism's habitat. (ex. water, sunlight, oxygen, temperature, and soil)
What are abiotic factors?
300
Area where material from deep within the mantle rises and melts forming magma
What is a hot spot?
300
Heat transer through space
What is radiation?
300
Winds created by unequal heating of Earth's surface, occur over a large area
What are Global winds?
300
Climate that has winters that are cold, while summers are warm or hot
What is Continental climate?
300
Transferred between organisms in the food web/chain
What is energy?
400
Material found in magma formed by oxygen and THIS MATERIAL making it thick or runny
What is silica?
400
Has wavelengths longer than red light
What is infrared radiation?
400
Earth's rotation makes winds curve
What is the Coriolis effect?
400
Caused by differences in the density of ocean water
What are Deep currents?
400
available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short amount of time
What is a renewable resource?
500
volcanoes on a continental plate form by this process
What is subduction?
500
Invisible form of energy with wavelenths that are shorter than violet light.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
500
Transfer of heat through liquid and currents
What is Convection?
500
Two major factors in determining climates
What are temperature and precipitation?
500
Energy-rich substances formed from the remains of organisms
What is fossil fuel?
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