Reason for the Season
This is what the Earth spinning around its axis is called.
What is rotation?
The earth has this many layers.
What is four layers?
The tool used to gather lots of information that floats in the ocean.
What is a buoy?
The amount of time it takes for the Earth to revolve around the sun.
What is 365 days?
How much of the Earth is water
What is 70%?
This is what the Earth orbiting around the sun is called.
What is revolution?
What is transform boundary?
The longest day of the year.
What is the summer solstice?
The theory that explains how continents move over time.
What is the theory of continental drift?
The amount that the earth is tilted on its axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
The type of plate boundary that is formed by two plates moving away from each other.
What is divergent boundary?
A circular flow of water formed by wind and the shape of continents.
What is a gyre?
The shortest day of the year.
What is the winter solstice?
The name for when the Earth gets an equal amount of day and night.
What is an equinox?
The sun's energy that makes it into the Earth's atmosphere is called this.
What is insolation?
He introduced the theory that explains how continents move over time.
Who was Alfred Wegener?
A method of heat transfer between either gases or liquids.
What is convection?
The date that the Fall Equinox occurs.
What is September 22nd?
The name of the current that brings cold water down our coast.
What is the California current?
The effect caused by the rotation of the Earth that makes wind curve away from the equator instead of traveling in a straight line.
What is the Coriolis effect?
The zone where an oceanic plate goes below a continental plate.
What is the subduction zone?
A wind mass that moves in a constant direction.
What are prevailing winds?
The date of the Vernal Equinox.
What is March 21st?
What is winter?