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Winds, El Nino/La Nina
Weathering/ Erosion/Deposition
Plate Tectonics
Soil
Atmosphere and Solar Radiation
100

What are trade winds?

Prevailing winds that blow northeast from 30 degrees north latitude to the equator and that blow southeast from 30 degrees south latitude to the equator

100
The changing of materials by chemical processes.
What is chemical weathering?
100
What type of boundary causes earthquakes when plates grind past one another?

Transform

100
Which Soil horizon contains organic material?

o horizon 

100
In what layer do we live?

the troposphere

200

List 2 impacts of El Nino 

answers vary


200
The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces by forces.
What is mechanical weathering?
200

What type of boundary is in the Atlantic Ocean and is causing new seafloor to form?

divergent boundary

200

Which of the three soil types is the smallest?

clay

200
What gas makes up the majority of the atmospheric composition, what percent?

Nitrogen 78%

300

List 2 impacts of La Nina

Central North America: increased storminess and precipitation, increased frequency of cold air outbreaks, colder than normal winters; Southeastern US: less stormy and less precipitation, warmer than normal conditions and winters

300

Moving sediment to another location

erosion

300

The type of boundary responsible for forming the Himalayan Mountains and the Cascade Mountain Range. 

Convergent Plate Boundaries

300

What are the three soil types

sand, silt, clay

300

What is responsible for the seasons? (Two things)

tilt and revolution 

400

Rising of cold, nutrient rich water to the surface. 

upwelling 

400

Give an 2 examples of chemical weathering.

What is chemicals in rain dissolving rocks over time?

400
The name for when one plate is forced under another, more dense plate. 

subduction

400

Define porosity, which type of soil is MOST porous 

spaces between pieces of sediment, sand


400

What happens to the temperature as you go up in the stratosphere and thermosphere? 

it rises

500

Weather in Peru during El Nino. 

warm/wet/rainy

500

Give 3 examples of mechanical weathering. 

answers vary


500

The layer of the Earth that the plates sit on. 

Aesthenosphere.
500

Define permeability 

answers vary

500

List the layers of the atmosphere in order from bottom to top. 

troposphere

stratosphere

mesosphere

thermosphere