Glaciers
What is a glacier?
Another name for a hurricane.
What is a cyclone?
The main cause of global warming.
What is the industrial revolution starting in the late 1800 and its increase in greenhouse gases?
A dynamic, natural material with inorganic material (minerals) also organic material (insects, plants, and microbes).
What is soil?
The enormous pieces of the earth's lithosphere.
What are tectonic plates?
This type of glacier forms in mountain regions.
What is an alpine glacier?
A snowstorm with winds over 35 mph.
What is a blizzard?
This climate event happens every 2-7 years when an upwelling of cold water in the Pacific sends warm water and rains toward N and S America.
What is El Nino?
The breakdown and movement of materials (usually preceded by wind and rain events).
What is erosion?
The molten rock formed in the earth's mantle.
What is magma?
This type of glacier forms on valleys and plains.
What are ice sheets?
The storm event that starts a tornado.
The trapping of solar energy in the Earth's atmosphere by additional layers of gases (such as carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide) caused by coal plant, car and other factory emissions.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The three types of weathering.
What are 1) physical weathering, 2) chemical weathering, and 3) biological weathering?
The machine that measures an earthquake and the measurement system used.
What is a seismograph and the Richter scale?
When debris under the moving glacier polished the land.
What is abrasion?
When wind pushes a descending cold air mass against an ascending warm air mass, this extreme weather feature may form.
What is a funnel?
A feature of global warming that causes places such as New York City and New Orleans to flood and/or lose their low-lying land.
What is sea-level rise?
This erosion occurs when a moving ice sheet grinds up the ground.
What is glacial erosion?
The area of the Pacific most known for earthquakes and volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
The two effects of global glacial melting on the world's oceans.
What is a decrease in the saline (salt) level and the rise of sea level?
The most destructive part of a hurricane?
What is the eye wall?
The theme of geography that studies global warming.
What is human-environment interaction?
The weakening and disintegration of rock by plants, animals, and microbes.
What is biological erosion?
When one plate of the earth slides under another, as the plate starts to melt from pressure often volcanoes arise.
What is a subduction zone or convergent:subduction plate boundary?