Vocabulary
One half of the earth.
What is a hemisphere?
Crabs and sea cucumbers are located in this ocean environment.
What is the benthic environment?
Another name for longitude lines.
What are meridians?
The three main rock types are.
What is igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Each time zone is about ______________ degrees of longitude, given that there are 24 hours in one earth rotation and the Earth is 360 degrees around.
What is 15 degrees?
The starting point of latitude. Divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This current helps to deposit sand particles creating sand bars and over many millions of years, barrier islands such as Galveston Island.
What are longshore currents
The latitude and longitude for the point where the Equator and the Prime Meridian meet.
What is 0°, 0°?
The abyssal plain is made up of what kind of crust
What is oceanic crust?
Number of time zones in the continental United States.
What is four?
These lines are also called parallels.
What are latitude lines?
This benthic environment is the same as the tidal range.
That is the intertidal zone?
Australia is located in these two hemispheres.
What are Southern and Eastern hemispheres?
These 2 rock properties make the best aquifers.
What is porosity and permeability?
Whenever you cross a time zone going east, the time increases or decreases by one hour?
What is increase?
Through international agreement, this city and country were chosen as the starting point for measuring longitude.
What is Greenwich, England?
Wavelength is 32 meters and its period is 4 seconds. What is the wave speed?
What is 8m/s?
The United States is located in these two hemispheres.
What is north and west?
The continental shelf is made up of this type of crust.
What is continental crust?
The four time zones in the continental United States.
What are Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific?
This rock property measures the ability of a rock layer to flow water.
What is permeability?
Tsunamis are large waves generated by earthquakes that are caused by this earth process.
What are tectonic plate movements?
Africa has the ________________ Ocean to its east and the _________________ Ocean to its west.
What are Indian and Atlantic?
The continental crust is made up of these main rock forming minerals.
What is quartz, potassium feldspar and biotite
Greenwich Meridian Time is centered on what imaginary line?
What is the Prime Meridian?