Earth
Description of the physical conditions in the atmosphere over short time scales
What is weather?
This is the draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure.
What is runoff?
This term is used to describe the amount of space between soil particles.
What is porosity?
This system is created when trade winds weaken.
What is El Nino?
What part of the earth's atmosphere protects us from radiation, and what kind of radiation is it?
What is the ozone layer and UV radiation.
This is the collection of all of the creeks, streams, and tributaries that feed into a river system.
What is a watershed?
This system pushes water towards Australia, creating more storms in the Atlantic basin.
What is La Nina?
These natural disasters are the result of plate tectonics.
Points for either. Bonus 100 points for both.
What are earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
The apparent curvature of the winds which produces steady, reliable wind patterns, such as the trade winds due to Earth's rotation
What is the Coriolis effect?
This principle of chemistry states that hotter, less dense water will rise, cool, and then sink in a cyclical fashion.
What is convection?
This triangle chart uses the amount of sand, silt, and clay in the soil to help determine its type.
What is a soil texture chart?
This system creates more hurricanes.
What is El Nino?
Mountain ranges have this effect on the environment, with lush greenery on one side of the range, and arid desert on the other.
What is a rain shadow?
The layers of the atmosphere are as follows:
Mesosphere Thermosphere
Troposphere Stratosphere
Put them in correct order from ground to space.
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and Thermosphere?
What two factors determine the ocean currents?
What are wind currents and convection?
This term describes how quickly water is able to infiltrate the soil.
What is permeability?
This system creates stronger upwelling.
What is La Nina?
Boundary where tectonic plates come together.
100 point bonus: give one of the types
What is convergent plate boundaries?
Bonus: Uplift or subduction
Explain why we have seasons and different temperature regions using a quick sketch.
Your picture should include the earth at a tilted angle, with sun beams hitting at various angles on the surface, creating varying heat intensity throughout the globe.
This is the motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water from deep water towards the ocean surface
What is upwelling?
This is a cutaway view of soil structure and composition.
What is a soil profile?
Give me the full name of ENSO.
El Nino Southern Oscillation