Plate Tectonics
What are the three main layers of the Earth?
What is the Crust, Mantle, and Core?
The top layer of soil called...
What is the O horizon?
This is the lowest layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs
What is the Troposphere?
This cycle involves the evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is The water cycle?
This type of natural disaster is caused by the sudden movement of tectonic plates.
What is an Earthquake?
This type of plate boundary creates mid-ocean ridges
What is the Divergent boundary?
This soil texture allows for the best water drainage.
What is Sand?
This is the phenomenon where ocean surface temperatures in the Pacific warm up, disrupting global weather.
What is El Niño?
This rock type is formed from cooling lava or magma.
What is Igneous rock?
This natural disaster forms over warm ocean waters and can cause severe coastal flooding.
What is a hurricane?
The San Andreas Fault is an example of what kind of plate boundary?
What is the Transform boundary?
This process breaks down rock into soil through physical and chemical means.
What is Weathering?
This effect causes moving air and water to be deflected due to Earth’s rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This is the porous rock layer that holds groundwater.
What is An Aquifer?
This human activity increases the frequency, soil erosion, loss of biodiversity.
What is deforestation?
This type of crust is densest of them all.
What is the Oceanic crust?
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This soil component is important for nutrient retention and is made of decaying organic matter.
What is Humus?
These are major environmental impact of La Niña events. (name one)
What is increased Atlantic hurricane activity (or droughts in the southern U.S., or floods in Southeast Asia)?
This is the process of removing minerals from the Earth, often disrupting ecosystems
What is Mining?
This type of biome reduces the impact of hurricanes or floods.
What is a wetland?
These 2 natural disasters are caused by convergent plate boundaries.
What is Earthquakes and Volcanoes?
These human activity lead to soil degradation. (name one)
What is overgrazing (or deforestation, or poor agricultural practices)? T
This global wind pattern is responsible for the movement of weather from west to east in the U.S.
What is Westerlies?
Name one renewable and one nonrenewable natural resource.
What is (which ever one)...
Renewable: solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, biomass, tidal, and wave energy
Non-renewable: fossil fuels and nuclear energy
These long-term strategies reduce soil erosion in agricultural areas.
What is contour plowing, terracing, or planting cover crops?