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$200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $ 300 $400 $500 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $100 Hot or Cold Air all Around Us Shear Intuition Drifting Away … Again Hodge Podge
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These factors affect weather.
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What are winds, temperature, humidity, precipitation, and air pressure?
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The following statement describes ________: It rains about 20 cm/yr in this area.
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What is climate?
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Wind is the movement of air. Air moves from areas of _________ pressure to areas of _______ pressure.
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What are high and low?
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This is the boundary where two different air masses meet.
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What is a front?
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This is an air mass that is warm and wet.
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What is Maritime Tropical?
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This is a calm area with little to no wind
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What are Doldrums?
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This causes global winds.
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What is the unequal heating of the atmosphere?
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True or False: Increase in populations is evidence of climate change.
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What is False?
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__________ is the atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time.
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What is weather?
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Name the layers of the atmosphere and something that occurs in each layer.
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Troposphere: surface- weather Stratosphere: ozone layer, airplane fly Mesosphere: meteors Thermosphere: satellites Ionosphere: Auroras Exosphere: space-no definite end
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This is known as a weak spot where magma erupts onto the surface.
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What are volcanoes?
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Most earthquakes will occur along these.
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What are plate boundaries?
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Volcanoes will not form at these, but Earthquakes will.
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What are transform boundaries?
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Convection currents cause these to move.
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What are tectonic plates?
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This forms where two oceanic plates collide.
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What is a subduction zone?
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These are preserved remains or traces of once living things.
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What are fossils?
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The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is known as this.
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What is continental drift?
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Matching ______ structures located on different continents supports the hypothesis of continental drift.
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What is rock?
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Scientists find a fossilized footprint of a dinosaur, this is an example of this type of fossil.
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What is a trace fossil?
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True or False: An old stone tool found in a cave is an example of a fossil.
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What is False?
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______ _____is the global wind belt responsible for the weather in the U.S..
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What is Prevailing Westerlies?
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The Coriolis Effect causes winds to do this.
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What is curve?
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The _____________ is made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth.
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What is fossil record?
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This is the correct order of divisions of time of the Geological Time Scale from largest to smallest.
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What are eons, eras, and periods?
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Organic matter breaks down to become this type of soil.
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What is fertile and nutrient rich?
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