Mutant Pollutants
This gas is released by burning fossil fuels, is a major contributor to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
The theory that earths continent's have moved and are still continuously moving.
What's a continental drift?
The study of planets, stars, and the galaxies.
What is Astronomy?
The type of rock that has fossils
What is sedimentary?
The movement of water above and below the earths surface
What is the water cycle?
Excess nutrients from fertilizers running into lakes rivers causing this harmful plant growth.
What is an Algae Bloom?
The movement of plates pulling away from one another leading to the creation of mid ocean ridges
What are Divergent Boundaries?
The theory that explains how our solar system formed
What is the Big Bang theory?
This type of rock forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies.
What is igneous?
The description of weather conditions and patterns over a long period of time
What is climate?
Too many nutrients in the water, causing algae to form.
What is Eutrophication?
This type of plate boundary is where two plate tectonics slide past each other, often causing earthquakes.
What is a Transform Boundary?
The force responsible for keeping planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
The process in which igneous or sedimentary rocks are transformed by heat
What is Metamorphism?
The boundary between two air masses of different temperatures often brings storms and changes in weather.
What is a front?
This term refers to the type of pollution that doesn't come from a single source, like runoff from streets or a farm.
What is nonpoint source sollution?
The type of plate boundary responsible for creating deep ocean trenches and volcanoe island arcs
What is a Convergent Boundary (specifically Oceanic- Oceanic)?
This type of galaxy has no definite shape and often appears scattered and unorganized.
What is an Irregular Galaxy?
The natural process of breaking down rocks, soil, and minerals.
What is weathering?
This is heat transfer in the form of waves
What is radiation?
This international agreement, signed in 1987, aimed to reduce substances that damage the Ozone Layer.
When one tectonic plate goes beneath another tectonic plate
What is subduction?
This effect causes the apparent curving in winds and ocean currents due to Earths rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The process of breaking down and moving rocks, and soil away from their original locations.
What is erosion?
The process in which when low ___ goes up the weather is bad but when high ___ goes down the weather is good.
What is air pressure?