Geologic Cycle
The tectonic plate boundary associated with sea floor spreading and mid-ocean ridges.
What is a divergent boundary?
A set of ordered, interrelated components connected by flows of energy and matter.
What is a system?
The Mississippi River is this type of fluvial geomorphological landform.
What is a meandering river/stream?
A community’s ability or potential to respond successfully to climate variability and change.
What is adaptive capacity?
The act by which producers convert solar energy into biomass.
What is photosynthesis?
This type of rock is formed when another type of rock is subjected to intense heat and pressure, but does not pass through a liquid phase.
What is metamorphic rock?
Our mental map of where something is.
What is cognitive location?
The phase change of water from liquid to gas.
What is evaporation?
This climate change policy approach tries to find solutions to climate change impacts, like developing drought-resistant crops.
What is adaptation?
This trophic level consists of organisms that feed on organic debris produced by living organisms inside their bodies.
What are detritivores?
These three cycles make up the Geologic Cycle.
What are the tectonic cycle, rock cycle, and hydrologic cycle?
Areas with uniform or similar physical and/or cultural characteristics.
What is a region?
Clouds are formed by this part of the hydrologic cycle.
What is condensation?
This kind of climate change policy tries to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions, such as switching to renewable energy sources.
What is mitigation?
The specific and unique function an organism has within its given community.
What is an ecological niche?
This type of rock cools slowly underground, resulting in large, coarse-grained crystals.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
The process in which a state establishes and maintains domination over a separate society in order to exploit their resources.
What is colonialism?
Clastic sedimentary rock is formed (in part) through these three processes, which also form part of the hydrologic cycle.
What are erosion, transportation, and deposition?
This climate change impact changes ocean chemistry as oceans absorb increased CO2 from the atmosphere, causing the calcium carbonate in marine organisms’ shells to dissolve.
What is ocean acidification?
The physical, chemical, and biological characteristics which limit the distribution and/or population size of a species.
What are limiting factors?
Diamonds are formed in this part of Earth’s internal structure.
What is the lower mantle?
A theoretical concept describing “Nature” not as a physical domain that exists independently of humans, but an invention of society which reflects different ideologies, philosophies and beliefs.
What is social construction / the Human-Nature Divide?
Engineering the Mississippi River via artificial levees and channelization increased New Orleans’ vulnerability to flooding in these two key ways.
What are 1) land subsidence and 2) wetland loss/erosion?
Climate change increases the likelihood of these types of events which shock or disrupt an ecological system, leading either to system recovery or into a new state.
What is (ecological) disturbance?
These two variables that determine an ecosystem’s net primary productivity (i.e. the amount of biomass).
What are solar energy and precipitation?