Plate Tectonics
Weather
Climate
Seasons
Tides
100
What causes formations like ridges, mountains, rift valleys, etc.
What is A. tectonic plate motion
100
Where do we experience more air pressure?
At sea level
On top of a mountain
What is 1. At sea level
100
What is climate?
What is the long-term average weather of a particular region
100
What is the reason for the seasons? There's 2, need both!
What is Earth's Tilt and Revolution
100
What causes the tides?
What is the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun
200
What happens at a convergent boundary?
What is D. the collision of tectonic plates
200
Warm air:
A- Is more dense and falls
B-Is more dense and rises
C-Is less dense and rises
What is C-Is less dense and rises
200
3 factors that affect climate
What is latitude of location, large bodies of water, and altitude
200
Day and Night are caused by ________.
What is Earth's rotation
200
What type of moon do neaps tides occur during?
What is 1st Quarter and 3rd Quarter
300
What happens at a transform boundary?
What is two plates slide past each other creating a fault and earthquakes
300
When air masses interact they form boundaries called ________________________.
What is fronts
300
Name one way we learn about past climates
What is tree rings, ice cores, sea floor sediments
300
Which tropic is receiving direct sunlight?
What is Tropic of Capricorn
300
What type of moon do spring tides occur during?
What is full and new
400
What is a mid ocean ridge?
What is a boundary between two plates that are moving away from each other
400
An area of high pressure will most likely experience what types of weather? (choose 2)
A-sunny
B-storms
C-few or no clouds
D- heavy rain
What is A-sunny and C-few or no clouds
400
What is Global Warming?
rise in Earth’s average surface temperature during the past 100 years
400
Why does the earth stay in orbit around the sun instead of drifting away from it into space?
What is the gravitational force between the Earth and the Sun
400
Which tide is this?
What is Spring Tide
500
A science museum wants to demonstrate some processes of Earth’s tectonic plates. Which of the following would best show how tectonic plates interact with the layer directly beneath the plates?
sliding the blocks along the top of warm solid metal
floating the blocks on a slowly moving pool of thick mud
What is 2. floating blocks on a slowly moving pool of thick mud
500
Identify today’s air pressure system.
What evidence supports your answer?
What is
H- happy weather- sunny-dry-little wind
L- lousy weather- cloudy-rain or drizzle-wind
500
What is a greenhouse gas?
a gas in the atmosphere that absorbs Earth’s outgoing infrared radiation
500
Label the seasons in the Northern Hemisphere:
What is A. Summer B. Fall C. Winter D. Spring
500
Which tide is this?
What is Neap Tide