Weather and Hurricanes
This type of front pushes warm air into an area and generally travels from South to North
What is a warm front?
Scientists who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift
Who is Alfred Wegener
Two continental plates collide to cause these.
What is mountains?
Drives all weather and life
This type of front brings in cooler temperatures and rain into an area
What is a cold front
Plate boundaries that collide
What is a fault line?
The part of the Earth that contains all the liquid on Earth
What is the hydrosphere
Area where hurricanes form
Evidence to support continental drift
What is fossils, rocks, continents as a one, or glacial scars.
Two oceanic divergent boundaries create these
What is seafloor spreading or mid ocean ridges?
What part of the Earth is the warmest?
What is the equator?
Pressure system that brings clear skies
What is a high pressure system?
Supercontinent
What is Pangea?
A series of underwater volcanoes (the name)
Warm air rises, cool air sinks
What is a convection current?
Direction a hurricane travels in the Northern Hemisphere
The Atlantic Ocean continues to widen every year due to this
What is divergent boundaries?
The landforms that are created where one plate subducts under the other.
What are trenches and volcanoes?
Describe a sea breeze
What is hot air over land rises and cools, then sinks over water, pushing winds towards land