Plate Tectonics & Soil & Misc
Seasons, Soil, and Stratosphere
Wind & Water
Climate & General Science
ENSO
100
This boundary exists at the San Andreas fault.
What is a transform boundary?
100
The constant tilt of the Earth's rotational axis as it orbits around the sun causes this.
What are seasons?
100
This is the direction in which the trade winds deflect in both hemispheres.
What is east to west?
100
This area has mountain uplift that is not volcanic in nature. 
What is C?
100
Warm water reducing upwelling will affect anchovy fishing in this manner.
What is reduce it?
200
This type of boundary exists at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and increases the amount of Earth's crust.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which the vast majority of ozone found.
What is the stratosphere?
200
These are the percentages of N2, O2, and CO2 in the troposphere.
What are 78, 21, and (less than 1) or .04?
200
This global area would receive 24 hours of daylight on 12/21.
What is E?
200
This is a negative environmental effect in an area with a decrease in precipitation.
What is...
drought, less surface water, aquifers not recharged, organisms can die / dry out, increased wildfires, desertification
300
The Hawaiian islands are made of cooled lava from these.
What are volcanos?
300
Clayey soil has this level of water holding ability.
What is high?
300
If a developer removes large trees, this would happen to the soil at the watershed.
What is increased erosion?
300
An aspect an experiment that is not changed throughout an experiment.
What is a control? (controlled variable)
300
El Nino and La Nina occur in the ... (choose one)
Tropical East Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Arctic North Pacific
Temperate West Atlantic
Tropical Indian Ocean
What is the tropical east Pacific?
400
Rainforest soil is actually considered poor in nutrients because plants take up nutrients quickly since decomposition occurs at this rate.
What is fast?
400
This area contains the most gas molecules in the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
400
This is the reason why rainforests are near the equator but deserts are at 30 degrees above and below it.
What are descending dry air currents?
400
A region having little rainfall because it is sheltered from prevailing rain-bearing winds by a range of hills.
What is a rain shadow?
400
This is the major cause of El Nino climate changes.
What is warmer surface waters in the Pacific?
500
Managing farmland goes hand-in-hand with water quality for this reason.
What is ...
poorly managed soil erodes and makes its way to bodies of water, where is increases turbidity and acts as a pollutant...
500
The layer of Earth's atmosphere with the highest pressure; weather occurs here.
What is the troposhere?
500
Most of the Earth's deserts are at approximately 30° latitude, north and south, because these latitudes are characterized by this/these.
What are dry/warm descending air currents?
500
During an El Nino, the central and eastern tropical Pacific most likely experiences these changes:
The Californian current reverses direction and flows northward.
The Californian current reverses direction and flows northward.The Californian current flows southward with increased speed.
The Californian current flows southward with increased speed.The Peruvian current strengthens, leading to cooler-than-average sea-surface temperatures.
The Peruvian current strengthens, leading to cooler-than-average sea-surface temperatures.The Peruvian current weakens, leading to warmer-than-average sea-surface temperatures.
What is
The Peruvian current strengthens, leading to warmer-than-average sea-surface temperatures.
500
During an El Nino, Peru experiences these ocean temperatures and this amount of precipitation.
What are warmer and higher?