Climate and Weather
cT air masses are best described as
Form by the cooling of hot molten rock (magma) from inside the earth
What are igneous rocks?
The mean solar day of twenty-four hours is due to
In this biome the soil is sandy and poor in nutrients
Air moves from zones with _______ pressure to zones with _______ pressure
What is high to low?
Type of plate boundary that forms mountains
What is continental-continental?
The sun gets its energy from
What is nuclear fusion?
This type of forest has trees which change in appearance based on the season
What is deciduous forest?
What is invasive species?
What is desert?
At this type of plate boundary the plates slide past one another
What is a transform boundary?
States that all planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus
What is the Law of Orbits?
Biome with high temperatures, high rainfall, and vegetation that forms a canopy
What are tropical rainforests?
An invasive plant species very common in North Carolina
What is kudzu?
What is tropical wet and dry?
Required to form metamorphic rocks
When the sun's vertical rays are located at the equator
What is equinox?
What is tundra?
Occurs when roads and other infrastructure are built in species' habitats
This greenhouse gas is responsible for the acidification of the ocean
What is carbon dioxide?
Body waves that can travel through any material
P waves
Characterizes how squished/ flattened a circle is
What is eccentricity?
Grasslands with high temperatures and low rainfall
What are savannas?
Anything within a species' ecosystem in which the amount present determines the growth rate and distribution of that species
What is a limiting factor?