Earth in General
The two causes of the Earth's seasons.
What is caused by the Earth's rotation around the sun and the tilt of the Earth?
Moisture that falls to the ground.
What is precipitation?
An interdependent community of plants and animals.
What is an ecosystem?
Water rising to the air (changing state) in the hydrologic cycle.
What is evaporation?
The supercontinent in continental drift theory.
What is Pangea?
These two components of the Earth lie below the crust.
What are the mantle (inner and outer) and core?
Heavy snow and wind such that the visibility is extremely low.
What is a blizzard?
The largest planetary regional ecosystem, it includes both fresh and salt water bodies.
What is the Aquatic biome?
This process forms clouds.
What is condensation?
This drives or causes Earth's plate tectonic movement.
What is the liquid mantle of the Earth?
This technology is used to see the effect of ocean currents, volcanic eruptions, etc. on the entire planet.
What are satellites?
Caused by snow falling into warmer air and then colder air before it hits the cold ground.
What is freezing rain?
Biome founded usually near the equatorial regions due to the lack of water they rarely support large animals.
What is a desert biome?
Caused by the moon's (and sun's) gravitational pull upon the oceans.
What causes a tide?
The name given to when two plate boundaries slide past each other.
And what is Ms. Nyland's full middle name?
What is a transform boundary?
What is Elaine Katherine?
The four spheres of the Earth in geographic study.
What is the lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?
These large storms begin over tropical seas when massive amounts of warm air, warm water, and winds meet.
What are hurricanes?
This biome includes the Great Plains and the E. African Savannah.
What is a grassland biome?
A major wave event, usually caused by an undersea earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
The name given when two plates crash into each other and form a mountain or mountain chain.
What is a convergent: collision boundary?
These are the six factors that make for the climate of a given region.
What are the 1) average amount of sunlight, 2) average amount of precipitation, 3) latitude, 4) elevation, 5) wind and 6) ocean currents?
The low-pressure system of cold air surrounding the N. or S. poles.
What is the polar vortex?
The original source of food for all the biomes' plants.
What is the sun or photosynthesis?
Name given to the two low and two high tides per cycle.
What is semidiurnal (tide cycle)?
What is an ocean ridge?