What are five types of landforms?
Volcanic Mountains, Valley, Plain, Shield, and Plateau's
How do you create a climate graph?
Add up monthly temp and divide by twelve. Add up monthly precipitation totals.
What is a tropical broadleaf forest?
Broad-leafed - These forests are made up of broad-leafed trees such as oak, maple, elm, walnut, chestnut, and hickory trees. These trees have big leaves that change color in the fall. Mixed coniferous and broad-leafed - These forests have a mix of conifers and broad-leafed trees.
What are three pollution causes how do they happen?
Sewage, Toxic Waste, and Oil Spills.
What is weathering?
The breaking of rocks by physical or chemical processes.
What are five ways climate change affects the earth?
Food, Water, Natural environment, extreme weather, health.
What is a boreal forest?
Forests with mostly deciduous trees such as oak, maple, and birch.
What are the effects of climate change on water systems?
Warmer air can hold more water vapour, one consequence of which is an increased frequency of heavy rainfall events.
What are the three types of boundaries? Describe them and draw a diagram of one.
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform.
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What are the differences between Boreal and Tropical Boreal Forests?
Trees don't lose there leaves.
What is El Nino?
A mass of warm water that travels from the western to eastern pasific.
What is a human factor that changes landforms?
Creating living spaces, meeting basic needs, and mining.
What do meteorologists measure to find out weather conditions?
Temperature, Precipitation ,and Wind Conditions
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What is La Nina
Cooling of surface water near South America.
What are the three types of erosion? Describe them?
Water, Ice, and Wind
What are six human-made sources of greenhouse gasses?
Waste, Agriculture, Transportation, Homes and Business, Electricity Production, Industry.
What would happen if a fast-growing invasive plant species, that had no known predator grew in a forest?
Bad things. Your probably right we will see.
Name ten parts of a river.
watershed, drainage basin, delta, mouth, river bed river bank, source, channel, flood plain, tributary.