BLAH
Thinning section of the Atmosphere resulting in warmer temps.
What is the Ozone Layer?
A small group of islands
What is an archipelago?
_______ is expected temperatures and __________ is the day to day temperatures.
What is climate and weather?
The breakdown of Earth's materials by wind and water.
What is erosion?
Earth spinning on it's axis.
What is rotation?
What is the atmosphere?
High flat land
What is a plateau?
Helps to disperse and balance the global temperature.
What are wind currents?
The poles, Titanic, Ice Age the movie, Frozen, etc.
What is glaciation?
Earth spinning around the Sun.
What is a revolution?
Contains the crust and mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
What is a canyon?
Seattle is farther north than Denver but has warmer winters due to this factor.
Majority of Earth's volcanoes where tectonic plates meet.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Responsible for majority of Earth's oxygen and cooling of the planet.
What is a Rainforest?
North America has more access to fresh water than any other continent which is a big deal when 97% of this sphere is salt water.
Rupture from Earth's crust, can cause new landforms.
What is a volcano?
The breakdown of rocks due to ice, wind, chemicals from pollution.
What is weathering?
The broken pieces of Earth's crust that move around and occasionally bump into each other causing good things and bad things.
What are tectonic plates?
Traps heat and warms the planet to a livable temperature.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The zone of life on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
Region that has similar life forms depending on climate.
What is a biome?
What are wind and ocean currents?
Oftentimes an explosion will result in a crater where a lake will form.
What is volcanic activity?
Air cools as it rises and causes rain or snow resulting in the opposite side of the landform to be barren.
What is the Orographic Effect?