Tectonics
The two types of crust
The most common gas in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
This layer has organic matter
This air rises.
What is warm air?
Having small space between particles.
What is Porosity?
Horse shoe shaped pattern of volcanic activity that encircles the pacific ocean.
What is Ring of Fire?
Has a 23.5 degree angle.
What is the Earth's tilt?
Soil Percentage always add up to ____?
What is hundred percent?
Rift Valley
What is a Divergent Boundary?
What is the Polar Cell?
Tectonic Plate Boundary with the strongest earthquakes.
What is a Transform boundary?
What are the layers of the atmosphere?
Exosphere, troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere.
Diagram used to find type of soil based on soil percentages.
What is a soil triangle?
Layer of soil that is mostly rock
What is the substratum layer?
True or False? Scientists can predict when a La Niña year will occur.
What is False?
Tectonic Plate boundary that generates the most deadly Tsunamis.
What is Convergent oceanic to continental?
Atmospheric convection cells that starts at the 30 degrees latitude and goes to 60 degrees latitude.
What is the Ferrel cell?
40% clay 50% silt and 20% sand is what type of soil?
40% sand, 40% silt, 20% clay.
What is loam?
What is Iceland, Yellowstone or Gallapagos Islands?
Himalayas, San Andreas, Red Sea, Hawaii and Chile.
What is continental to continental convergent, transform, divergent, hot spots, and oceanic to continental convergent?
Northern hemisphere storms spin to the right. Southern hemisphere storms spin to the left.
What is the coriolis effect?
Three causes of topsoil erosion.
What is tilling, over grazing, defoliation, deforestation, wind, and runoff?
Global phenomenon where United States and South America get high rainfall.
What is El Niño?
The 22nd and 24th president of the United States
Who is Grover Cleveland?