Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes
Ocean Currents
Soil Triangle Problem
RaNdOm DeFiNiTiOnS?!
100
2 plates moving apart
What is a Divergent boundary
100
Earthquakes are clustered around
What are divergent boundaries
100
El Nino is
What is the warming of the ocean surface
100
30% Clay
60% Sand
10% Silt
What is Sandy Clay Loam
100
a record of the major events and diversity of life forms present in Earth's history (humans have only been on Earth for about 0.002% of the time)
What is Geological Time Scales
200
2 plates sliding by one another
What is a Transform fault
200
Majority of earthquakes occur where on Earth
What is the eastern part of the world
200
Under currents are driven by what change in the water
What is density
200
50% Clay
10% Sand
40% Silt
What is Silty Clay
200
a liquid/gas is warmed, loses density, and forced into a greater region of density--makes a cycle
What are Convection Cells
300
2 land plates
What are Convergent Plate boundaries
300
There are how many types of earthquakes
What is 3
Tectonic, Volcanic, and Explosion
300
La Nina is
What is the opposite of El Nino in the fact that it is the cooling of the waters on the South American coast
300
20% Clay
40% Sand
40% Silt
What is Loam
300
lowering of body temperature due to flow of cold air
What is Wind Chill
400
one land plate and one ocean plate
What is a subduction zone
400
Earthquakes cause what when in the ocean
What are Tsunamis
400
How do prevailing winds blow
What is all the same direction
400
20% Clay
40% Sand
40% Silt
What is Loam
400
relatively narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere
What is Jet Stream
500
The plates on the Baja California Peninsula are known as
What are Pacific Plates
500
The zone where most earthquakes occur is known as
What is the "Ring of Fire"
500
When the winds change direction during certain months they create
What are Monsoon winds
500
35% Clay
40% Sand
35% Silt
What is Clay Loam
500
a large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the Earth
What are Hotspots