Atmosphere
The most prominent element in the atmosphere.
Nitrogen.
An increase in profits for fisheries and drastically more storms in the Wester Hemisphere coastlines categorizes:
La Niña.
The largest desert.
Antartica
Boundary that creates mountains.
Convergent Boundary.
What percentage of the atmosphere is Oxygen?
21%
”Trade Winds” typically blow from ___ to ___ direction.
East to West.
Which form of water is most likely to be the direct cause of the formation of a pothole in a city street.
Ice.
In a convergent boundary with a oceanic and terrestrial plate, the _____ plate sinks.
Oceanic.
The smallest layer of the atmosphere.
Troposhpere.
Colder water moves up towards the surface.
Upwelling zones.
Warms water and makes it turbid.
Soil.
Boundary type responsible for the creation of the San Andres Fault.
Transform Boundary.
Causes a warmer winter in many parts of North America.
El Nino
All of the land that drains into a specific body of water.
Watershed.
Arid weather conditions on the leeward side of a mountain are caused by this.
Rain Shadows.
The islands that Hawaii belongs to was caused by a ____ boundary.
Divergent
Runoff adds new elements to bodies of water which can lead to:
Eutrophication.
Definition: “The amount of light reflected off of the (Ocean) back into the atmosphere.”
Albedo
The northern hemisphere is in the season _____ whenever the bottom of the axis is parallel with the Sun.
Spring or Fall.
Solid, flexible outer layer of mantle, beneath the lithosphere.
Asthenosphere.