Plate Tectonics
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
What are divergent, convergent, and transform?
What are the three main soil particles?
What are sand, silt, and clay?
What are the layers of the atmosphere from lowest to highest?
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is weather is short-term and climate is long-term atmospheric patterns?
What causes Earth’s seasons?
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
What geological event is common at transform boundaries?
What is an earthquake?
What is the ideal soil texture for growing crops?
What is loam?
In which layer does weather occur?
What is the troposphere?
What causes wind?
What is uneven heating of Earth’s surface?
Which hemisphere receives more direct sunlight during June?
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
What forms at oceanic-continental convergent boundaries?
What are volcanic mountain ranges?
What causes soil erosion?
What is wind, water, or human activity?
Where is the ozone layer located?
What is the stratosphere?
What is the Coriolis effect?
What is the deflection of moving air due to Earth's rotation?
What is the term for the shortest day of the year?
What is the winter solstice?
What is sea-floor spreading?
What is the formation of new oceanic crust at divergent boundaries?
What does a soil's porosity affect?
What is how much water the soil can hold?
What happens to temperature as you go up in the troposphere?
What is it decreases?
What is an El Niño event?
What is a periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean that alters global weather?
What is albedo?
What is the reflectivity of a surface?
What causes the movement of tectonic plates?
What is convection in the Earth's mantle?
What is salinization and how does it affect soil?
What is salt buildup in soil that reduces fertility?
What is atmospheric pressure and how does it change with altitude?
What is the force of air on Earth's surface, and it decreases with altitude?
How do ocean currents affect climate?
What is they transport heat around the globe?
Why is the equator warmer than the poles?
What is it receives more direct solar radiation year-round?