Plate Techtonics
A plate boundary found in the ocean, where two tectonic plates move away from one another.
What is Divergent Plate Boundary?
The transport of weathered rock fragments by wind and rain is called...
what is Erosion?
This soil texture holds water the best.
what is Clay?
What is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
what is Nitrogen?
Our typical wind pattern in North America is from this direction to this direction.
What is West to East.
All the land that drains into a specific body of water.
what is a Watershed?
Solar intensity is highest at this part of the globe.
what is the equator?
El Niño is Spanish for this.
What is little boy?
A plate boundary that leads to subduction.
What is Convergent plate boundary?
the names of the five soil horizons
What are O-Horizon, A-Horizon, E-Horizon, B-Horizon, C-Horizon?
This soil type is the most permeable.
what is Sand?
This is Earth's hottest layer of the atmosphere.
what is Thermosphere?
Wind traveling east to west in the Pacific Ocean are known as.
what are Trade winds?
Name 2 factors that effect how much a watershed drains.
More vegetation = more infiltration & groundwater recharge
Greater slope = faster velocity of runoff & more soil erosion
Soil permeability determines runoff vs. infiltration rates
What affects the Earth's seasons?
Earth's tilt, solar radiation, albedo effect, length of sunlight in the day
unusually cold water along the west coast of South America
What is La Niña?
The pattern of volcanoes & earthquake zones all around the pacific plate are called...
What is The Ring of Fire?
How does consistently growing the same crop cause nutrient depletion?
What is Repeatedly growing crops on the same soil removes key nutrients (N, P, K, Na, Mg) over time?
This soil texture is the best for growing, and considered the most balanced.
what is Loam?
The layer of Earth's atmosphere where weather occurs.
what is Troposphere?
True or False: The Earth spins slowest at the equator.
what is false! It spins the fastest at the equator because it has the further distance to rotate
Name one of the two major nutrients, that frequently travel as runoff, cause algae blooms.
what is Nitrogen and Phosphorus ?
This is the amount of sunlight received on the Earth's surface.
What is isolation?
Pattern of shifting atmospheric pressure & ocean currents in the pacific ocean between South America and Australia/Southeast Asia
What is ENSO?
These 2 layers of Earth's core make up the lithosphere
What is the Upper Mantle and the Earth's Crust
This is why the O-Soil Horizon is called the O-Soil Horizon?
What is organic matter (plant roots, dead leaves, animal waste, etc on top of soil)?
Name 2 of the main nutrients for supporting plant growth.
N, P, K+, Mg2+, Ca2+, Na+
This is Earth's coldest layer, because there are fewer molecules to absorb the sun.
what is Mesosphere?
This process circulates warm air and rain around the equator.
what are convection cells?
how does plant roots prevent erosion?
what is Loss of stabilizing root structure causes sediment to be swept away more easily?
The term for different sides of a mountain having very different biomes or an extended dry leeward side.
What is a rain shadow?
Name an impact of La Niña
Colder Temperatures
More Hurricanes
Droughts and Wildfires
This process drives the movement of tectonic plates and the formation of new oceanic crust.
What is Convection?
This soil layer is most susceptible to the leaching of chemicals.
what is A horizon?
Using the Triangle:
You have a soil that is 30% sand, 20% silt, 50% clay.
What is clay?
The thickest Ozone Layer is found here.
what is Stratosphere?
This process deflects wind traveling through atm. due to spin of earth.
what is the Coriolis Effect?
the type of pollution that is easier to prevent
What is point source pollution?
This is the amount of reflected light off of a surface.
What is albedo?
Name an impact of El Niño.
Warmer Temperatures
Stronger Storms and Flooding
Droughts in Some Areas