Tectonic Plates
The boundary where tectonic plates slide against one another.
What is a transform boundary?
What is weathering?
An area of land where all the water that falls drains into a common body of water, such as a river, lake, or ocean.
What is a watershed?
This gas protects us from UV rays from the sun.
What is ozone?
The climate pattern that involves the warming of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical pacific ocean.
What is El Nino?
This kind of boundary is known to create mountains.
What is a convergent boundary?
The constant formation, alteration, and destruction of rock material that results from tectonics, weathering, and erosion.
What is the rock cycle?
This factor affects how permeable a watershed is.
What is soil type?
What is the troposphere?
The upward movement of ocean water toward the surface as a result of diverging currents.
What is upwelling?
Tectonic plates float on this layer of the Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
The soil horizon that is the zone of overlying organic material mixed with underlying mineral material.
What is the A horizon (topsoil)?
As the slope of a watershed increases, this happens to the erosion.
What is increases?
Global patterns of air movement that are initiaited by the unequal heating of the Earth.
What is atmospheric convection currents?
Following an El Nino event, trade winds in the South Pacific reverse strongly, causing regions that were hot and dry to become cooler and wetter.
What is La Nina?
Sea floor spreading is caused by this kind of boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
The most fully decomposed organic matter in the lowest layer of the O horizon.
What is Humus?
What is increased erosion?
This is what causes earth's seasons.
What is the Earth's 23.5-degree tilt?
A region with dry conditions found on the leeward side of a mountain range as a result of humid winds from the ocean causing precipitation on the windward side.
The process which the edge of an oceanic plate moves downward beneath the continental plate and is pushed toward the center of Earth.
What is subduction?
This type of soil has the highest level of porosity.
What is clay?
This river drains water from nearly one-third of the United States and carries all of this water to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
The percentage of incoming sunlight reflected from a surface.
What is albedo?
An oceanic circulation pattern that drives the mixing of surface water and deep water.
What is thermohaline circulation?