Volcanoes
ATMOSPHERE/HEAT TRANSFER
WIND/WEATHER
Weather/Weathering
Erosion
ECOSYSTEMS
100
Where do volcanoes form?
Ring of fire/the boundaries of Earth’s plates
100
What is the atmosphere?
Layer of gases that surrounds Earth
100
What causes wind?
Differences in air pressure/convection currents
100
What are the two main factors that determine weathering?
Rock type and climate
100
What should a habitat provide for an organism?
Food, water, shelter
200
What’s the worst hazard or danger of quiet volcanic eruptions?
Lava flows
200
Why is the Earth’s atmosphere important?
Provides necessary gases for living things
200
What is precipitation?
Any form of water that falls from clouds
200
What is weather?
conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds & clouds at a particular time
200
From the smallest to largest, what are the levels of ecological organization?
Organism, population, community, ecosystem
300
What makes magma thick or thin?
Silica
300
What happens to air pressure as you rise in elevation?
Decreases
300
What layer of the atmosphere does weather occur?
Troposphere
300
What is climate?
long term average conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds & clouds
300
What is an energy pyramid?
A diagram that shows that amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
400
If magma is thick, what type of eruption will it cause?
Explosive
400
How does heat from the sun reach the earth?
Radiation
400
What does the ozone layer do?
Blocks incoming ultraviolet radiation
400
What is a cold front?
when a cold air mass over takes a warm air mass
400
Which level on the energy pyramid has the most available energy?
Producer level
500
What causes the small earthquakes that occur around a volcano before an eruption?
Upward movement of magma
500
What are the three types of energy transfer and describe each?
Conduction_______________(through touch) Convection_______________(through liquid/currents) Radiation________________(through space)
500
Which two factors are used to classify different climates?
Temperature and Precipitation
500
What is an occluded front?
when two cold air masses collide and cut off warm air mass
500
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither hurt or helped.
Commenalism
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