Climate/Weather
Atmospheric conditions occurring at a given time and place
What is weather?
The name of the supercontinent that used to exist before the plates split
What is Pangea?
List the 4 layers of Earth from innermost to outermost.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust?
List the 5 oceans.
What is the Atlantic, Arctic, Indian, Pacific, and Southern?
The movement of water
What is a current?
List 2 ways that humans influence the climate.
What is pollution, cutting down trees, building cities, etc.?
Earth vibrations that cause earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions
What is seismic activity?
True or False: Humans have been able to explore the mantle in person.
What is false?
New lithosphere is “born” as molten lava rises from the Earth’s mantle through the crack in the plate and cools into solid rock on the ocean floor
What is seafloor spreading?
The most deadly and active area of tectonic activity is called the ______.
What is the Ring of Fire?
List the 3 types of tropical climates.
What is Tropical Rainforest, Tropical Savanna, and Tropical Monsoon?
Explain the difference between convergent, divergent, and transform plate boundaries.
What is convergent=colliding, divergent=moving apart, transform=sliding past each other?
The solid layer of Earth made up of iron and nickel.
What is the inner core?
List 3 things that humans get from oceans.
What is seafood, petroleum, gold, silver, copper, cobalt, nickel, electricity, trade methods, etc.?
Warm air builds up around these specific man-made areas and leads to climate change
What is cities?
Occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer
What is the Summer Solstice?
The place where most earthquakes occur
The thickest layer of Earth
What is the mantle?
_____% of the world’s population rely mainly on seafood for their source of protein.
What is 15%?
The name of the new rock that forms when seafloor spreading occurs
What is basalt?
September 23rd and March 21st mark this
What is the fall and spring equinoxes?
What is Alfred Wegener?
The layer of partially melted rock that exists within the mantle and the causes the movement of the tectonic plates.
What is the asthenosphere?
______% of global trade takes place on the sea
What is 90%?
Nebraska belongs to this climate category.
What is humid continental?