Minerals
Waves
Atmosphere
Coral reefs
The Cryosphere
100
Is amber a mineral? Why or why not.
No, because it is organic
100
Fast moving waves generated by undersea seismic activity.
What are Tsunamis?
100
The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where all weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
The single-celled dinoflagellate algae that live in symbiosis with multiple marine invertebrates, including demosponges, jellyfish, and corals
What are Zooxanthella?
100
This is the lower zone of a glacier that is the primary location of movement
What is the Plastic zone?
200
calcite is an example of which type of mineral
carbonate
200
Wave Height is determined as the distance between which two points of a wave?
Crest to Trough
200
The wind belts blowing from the northeast and southeast that converge along the equator.
What are trade winds?
200
The two life stages of corals.
What are the Polyp and Medusa stages?
200
Ice transported boulder not derived from underlying bedrock
What is a erratic?
300
Silicate where three O atoms shared to form a sheet, tend to be needle or fibrous, like asbestos.
Examples: Biotite, clay
What is a sheet silicate? 
300
Waves associated with the ocean surface.
What are orbital waves?
300
The atmospheric circulation cells located between 30o and 60o
What are ferrel cells? 
300
Reef parallel the shore, separated from it by wide deep, low energy lagoons
• Famous example along Australia
What is a Barrier reef?
300
describe the primary differences between glacial ice and sea ice. how do each relate to global sea level?
Sea ice is frozen ocean that forms in the water, In contrast, ice bergs, ice shelves and glaciers originate on landThe melting of glaciers with climate change raises sea level
400
Silicate formation where all four O atoms shared by adjacent tetrahedra
examples: Quartz and Feldspar
What is a framework silicate?
400
A wave that breaks over a steep shoreline, forming a distinctive "tunnel"
What is a Plunging breaker?
400
How does el Nino impact hurricane development in the Atlantic ocean?
Reduces hurricane formation due to the stronger vertical wind shear.
400
Name four threats to coral reef health?
Warming ocean, sea level rise, change in storm patterns, changes in precipitation, altered ocean currents, ocean acidification.
400
A Steep-side, half-bowl-shaped recess carved into a mountain at the head of a valley carved by a glacier.
What is a cirque?
500
Four classifications of a mineral?
a naturally occuring solid, has a spacific chemical concentration, generally inorganic, and have a spacific atomic arrangment
500
The time when tidal range increases due to the sun being closer to the Earth.
What is perihelion?
500
Draw and describe the Coriolis effect.
Objects in motion are deflected (to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere) by the motion of Earth's rotation.
500
Draw the zones of a coral reef, what are they based on.
Include: Inner Reef, Reef crest, and forereef
500
When glacier accumulation is greater than ablation(melting.
This creates an advancing glacier, and what kind of budget?
Glacier growth & positive budget