Which geochemical cycle does not have a gaseous phase?
What is the Phosphorus cycle
100
What conditions are necessary for a hurricane to form?
What is warm tropical oceans and winds that circulate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere
100
Describe the coriolis effect
What is, in the northern hemisphere winds/objects are deflected to the right, southern they are deflected to the left caused by the earths rotation
100
what determines climate?
What is temperature and precipitation including wind, humidity, fog, cloud cover, and occasionally lightning.
100
Why is it important to consider carbon loss?
What is it is necessary for our environment and it takes a very long time to recreate itself but a very short amount of time to destroy.
200
Name 2 human impacts on the nitrogen cycle
What are Fertilizer, Acid rain, Blue baby syndrome, and photochemical smog.
200
Where do most tornadoes occur?
What is tornado alley. Start in south(texas).
200
What effect does El nino have on the USA
What is it causes warmer and wetter winters in the north, it can cause ice storms, torrential rain, draughts and fires.
200
How do tornadoes form?
What is it forms when a mass of cool, dry air mixes with humid air and it produces a strong up draft of spinning air on the underside of a cloud.
200
The sun powers biogeochemical cycles and is the primary determinant of climate
What is Solar Radiation
300
What organism mediates the Nitrogen Cycle?
What is bacteria in Nodules of legumes
300
What are rhizobiums?
What is the nitrogen fixing bacteria that fixes nitrogen in soil and aquatic environments(anaerobic process-no oxygen)
300
What is la Nina? Describe
What is la nina is the earth regulating itself after the warming of El Nino.
300
What are the 4 examples of precipitation
What is rain, snow, sleet, hail
300
How is photochemical smog created?
What is hydrocarbons+NO2+Ozone+Sunlight
400
In what was is N2 gas removed from the atmosphere?
What is lightning and fixing bacteria.
400
What 5 aspects of a hurricane potentially cause damage?
What are strong winds, storm surge, rip tides, flooding and tornadoes.
400
Explain the stratosphere and why it is important?
What is It contains the ozone layer. It protects life on earth from dangerous UV rays.
400
Explain the the two forms of waves in an earthquake
What is Primary waves are below the surface and less destructive and secondary waves are the most destructive and run on the surface.
400
How did horse latitudes get their name?
What is Is is a band of no wind at 30 north and south and in the olden days when sailors approached this point, they would throw the horses overboard.
500
In what was is carbon released into the atmosphere?
What is combustion and resperation
500
How wide and long are spiral rainbands?
What is 32-80 km
500
What are 2 main components at the equator?
What is Inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ)
and Doldrums(windless bands)
500
what is a rain shadow?
What is dry conditions often on a regional scale, that occur on the leeward side of a mountain barrier; The passage of moist air across the mountains removes most of the moisture.
500
What are hadley,ferrel, and polar cells and where are they?