Climate
Volcanoes/Earthquakes
Soil
Geological Time Scale
Various
100
Thursday Oct 27th
When is your test
100
San Andres/Transform Boundary
Describe a major boundary/fault line that is in California?
100
The smallest particle of soil
What is clay
100
Eon
What is the largest division on the geological time scale
100
increase in diseases
what could a rapidly growing population have on drinkable water?
200
Average temperature and precipitation taken over decades
What is climate
200
Earthquakes that take place in the ocean.
What are tsunamis?
200
Sandy Loam
What is 60% sand, 20% silt, 20% clay
200
Triassic, Jurassic, cretaceous
When did the dinosaurs first appear
200
less transport of debris, and sediment fish transport natural temperature
Name one possible environmental impact to damming a river?
300
what causes the seasons of the Earth to change
What is Earth's axis
300
mid ocean ridges and rifts
What are two features of divergent plates
300
clay
What is the least permeable
300
period, era, eon
What is the correct order from smallest to largest for the divisions of the geological time scale
300
Living organisms first evolved 1 billion years ago Triassic period start of dinosaurs Earth is 4.6 billion years old
Describe a major event in Earth's history?
400
A regions weather for the day snowy, rainy, hot, humid
What is weather
400
Subduction zone and trenches
What are two features of convergent plates?
400
Gravel, sand, silt, clay
What is the largest to smallest particles of soil
400
Cenozoic
What is smallest eon on the geological time scale
400
Weaker winds move to the left and warmer water moves upward.
Describes what happens during an El Nino year?
500
97%
What is the percentage of saltwater?
500
The earth was made of multiple layers the core is hotter then the crust mantle moves through convection
What are at least two features that were not represented in your avocado model that were true about the earth?
500
Silt
What is 10% sand, 80% silt, 10%clay
500
Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic
What is the order from largest to smallest eons on the geological time scale
500
Omaha is inland so temperatures will vary from low to high were as Eureka is off the coast and will have consistent temperatures.
What is the difference in temperature variation between Omaha and Eureka?