Plate Boundaries
What direction do convergent plates go?
What is the name for the individual pieces of the Earth's crust?
Plates
The gradual process of breaking down rocks is called ___________ and ___________.
Weathering and Erosion
What gas is the atmosphere primarily made up of?
Nitrogen
What is it called when a place is becoming more and more populated and settled?
Urbanization
What direction do divergent plates go?
What is the name of the Earth's outer layer?
The lithosphere
The breakdown of organic matter is influenced by what?
Climate, time, and biological activity
How many layers does the earths atmosphere have?
5
What does a watershed regulate?
Water quality
What direction do transform plates go?
Side to side
What does the earths tilt do?
Creates seasons
How is soil formed?
Through the weathering down of rocks
Which layer houses weather that takes place on earth?
Troposphere
Watershed is an area of land in which water flows into a ________, _________, or _________.
River, Ocean, or Lake
The reason for the movement of continents over time.
The energy emitted from the sun is called what?
Solar Radiation
What can erosion cause?
A loss of fertile land
What does the atmosphere protect us humans from?
Harmful UV rays
What does pollution do to watersheds?
Degrades the water quality
What is the name of the super continent that was once all the continents in one?
Pangaea
Describe the rain shadow effect
When a mountain prevents rain clouds from moving to the opposite side of it causing a wet side and a dry side to be created
What is desertification?
The process in which a dry land is degraded into a desert
What does the atmosphere do to the temperature on earth?
Regulates it
What supplies a watershed with water?
Any type of precipitation