Tectonic Processes
Weathering & Erosion
Tides
Currents
Other
100
Causes seafloor spreading, hydrothermal vents, and ridges.
What is a divergent boundary?
100
Laying down sediment carried by wind, water, or ice.
What is deposition?
100
Most exposed and resistant to erosion type of shore.
What is a rocky shore?
100
What is the Coriolis effect?
100
How to find density.
What is density = M/V?
200
The top two layers of the Earth.
What are the oceanic and continental crusts?
200
River carrying suspended sediments reaching a large body of water (creates a fan shape).
What is a Delta?
200
the difference between the high tide and its following low tide.
What is tidal range?
200
Causes currents to form.
What are density differences (salinity and temperature)?
200
Has low levels of erosion, and has usually murky water.
What classifies an Estuary?
300
The type of boundary that results in no volcanic activity, and fault lines.
What are transform boundaries?
300
When living organisms break down rock.
What is organic weathering?
300
Formed when the sun, moon, and earth are in a straight line.
What is a spring tide?
300
System of slow moving currents that begins with the downwelling of the North Atlantic Deep Water current.
What is the Global Ocean Conveyor Belt?
300
The rate of erosion is less than the rate of deposition. Is in constant motion and change from waves and currents.
What is a sandy shore?
400
The boundary type that creates trenches, volcanoes, and tsunamis.
What is a convergent boundary?
400
Example: a natural arch crumbling and falling.
What is gravity erosion?
400
The intertidal region between the highest and lowest tides.
What is the littoral zone?
400
Weaker trade winds, water becomes warmer, less upwelling.
What is the El Nino event?
400
When the moon, sun, and Earth form a 90 degree angle, and their gravitational pulls partially cancel out.
What is a neap tide?
500
Puzzle piece shorelines, similar fossils, similar animal life, earthquakes, and fault lines.
What is the theory of Plate Tectonics?
500
When rocks are broken down but there is no chemical change.
What is physical weathering?
500
When there are 2 high tides and 2 low tides in a day.
What are semidiurnal tides?
500
Strengthens trade winds, colder waters.
What is the La Nina event?
500
Label the Oceans.