Climate
Specific name of the location where greatest rainfall occurs on earth 15 N and S latitude.
What is the Intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)?
Biome known for strong seasonality and deciduous plants.
What is a temperate environment?
Rock is made of rounded pebbles.
What is a conglomerate?
Rock unit containing turbidites you examined in lab.
What is the Trimmers Rock Formation?
Ocean water and air turn to the right in the Northern Hemisphere due to this...
What is Coriollis Effect?
Movement of high pressure cold air towards low pressure zones.
What is wind?
Means from land.
What is terrestrial?
A light colored, coarse grained igneous rock composed of quartz, K-feldspar, and biotite.
What is granite?
Rock unit composed of three members that represents major environmental changes (marine to land).
What is the Catskill Formation?
Light reflects off of clouds and ice.
What is the Albedo?
Sinking cold air is responsible for these major ecosystems at 30 N and S latitude.
What are deserts?
The kind of potential sedimentary deposits/rock from tundras.
What is peat/coal?
The oldest evidence of life on earth- a layered rock that is a trace fossil.
What is a stromatolite?
The erosional features no the bottom of a sandstone bed that signify that erosion and a current disrupted bedding.
What is a sole mark?
Ocean current that transports heat along Atlantic seaboard in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Gulf Stream?
Excessively wet and dry seasons separated by 6 months.
What are Monsoons?
An extremely dry environment where abundant salts may precipitate and evaporation is greater than precipitation.
What is a sabkha?
Dark colored igneous rock that forms ocean basins.
What is basalt?
Process of the coastline migrating toward the ocean as sea level lowers or sedimentation increases.
What is progradation?
The sinking of a basin that allows sediments to accumulate.
What is subsidence?
Property by which water holds/stores heat.
What is specific heat?
Name of the supercontinent that formed at the end of the Permian with extensive interior deserts.
What is Pangaea?
Type of rock in mantle.
What is Peridotite?
Couplets of rock- sandstone grading into shale are described as having this arrangement
What is graded bedding?
Normal faults form from this movement.
What is pulling apart or extension?