Acid Rain and Ozone Layer Depletion
This protects the Earth from solar radiation .
What is the ozone layer (of the stratosphere or upper layer of the atmosphere)?
Another name for a hurricane.
What is a cyclone?
Coal, oil, and natural gas.
What are three main fossil fuels?
A dynamic, natural material with inorganic material (minerals) also organic material (insects, plants, and microbes).
What is soil?
The enormous pieces of the earth's lithosphere.
What are tectonic plates?
Sulfur nitrate (create by pollutant chemicals) mixed with percipitation.
What is acid rain?
A powerful funnel-shaped column of spiraling air.
What is a tornado?
A significant variation in average weather patterns over a large period of time
What is global warming?
The breakdown and movement of materials (usually preceded by wind and rain events).
What is erosion?
The molten rock formed in the earth's mantle.
What is magma?
What happens when chemicals commonly called CFCs (found in refrigerators, air conditioners, and other cooling devices) are released in large quantities into the atmosphere.
What causes ozone depletion in the atmosphere?
The center of a hurricane.
What is the eye of the hurricane?
The trapping of solar energy in the Earth's atmosphere by additional layers of gases (such as carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide) caused by coal plant, car and other factory emissions.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The three types of weathering.
What are 1) physical weathering, 2) chemical weathering, and 3) biological weathering?
The machine that measures an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
The goal of the Montreal Protocol.
What is the reduction of CFCs or to work on stopping ozone depletion?
The duration (length of time) of most tornadoes.
What is a few minutes?
A feature of global warming that causes places such as New York City and New Orleans to flood and/or lose their low-lying land.
What is sea-level rise?
This erosion occurs when a moving ice sheet grinds up the ground.
What is glacial erosion?
The area of the Pacific most known for earthquakes and volcanoes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Industrial pollutants from coal-powered power plants and coal-burning factories.
What are the main causes of acid rain?
The most destructive part of a hurricane?
What is the eye wall?
The time period or event when the causes of global warming began (from the burning of large amounts of coal and gas to deforestation).
What is the Industrial Revolution or the mid-late 1800s?
The weakening and disintegration of rock by plants, animals, and microbes.
What is biological erosion?
What type of condition/event created the Himalayan Mountains?
What is a the tectonic plate activity know as a convergent boundary?