Across
- 4. A mountain _____ causes high precipitation on the windward side, low precipitation on the leeward side
- 6. breakdown of rock into smaller pieces physically, biologically, or chemically
- 10. bottom layer of atmosphere
- 11. earth's position when it is maximally tilted towards the sun and has the most sunlight hours
- 15. outer layer of the earth, Earth’s surface
- 16. Dense earth layer made of nickel, iron, and radioactive elements that release massive amounts of heat
- 19. What occurs when When stress overcomes the locked fault, plates suddenly release
- 25. Physical earth layer - magma in the mantle, moving
- 26. the proportion of light that is reflected by a surface (shininess)
- 27. ____ circulation connects all of the world’s oceans, mixing salt, nutrients, and temperature throughout
- 28. Physical earth layer - more rigid part of the lower mantle that does not move
- 30. nutrient holding capacity. increases with amount of clay.
- 31. Pressure builds as plates keep sliding, but edges stay stuck
- 32. unequal heating of earth's surface occurs with the most solar energy absorbed at the ___
- 35. can moderate the temperature near coasts
- 36. permeable layer of rock and sediment underneath the soil that have pore spaces that store groundwater
- 37. Causes very warm and rainy conditions in Australia, very dry conditions in south america, very happy fisherpeople in south america
- 38. Made of sediment, organic matter, nutrients, water, air, living organisms
- 39. The ____ cell is a the atmospheric convection current surrounding the equator
- 41. 78% of earth's atmosphere
- 42. soil ____ is the % of sand, silt, and clay in a soil
- 44. Pattern of earthquakes and volcanos all around the Pacific plate
Down
- 1. winds blow warm surface water away from a land mass, drawing up colder, deeper water to replace it
- 2. A large ocean circ patterns due to global wind which spins opposite directions in opposite hemispheres
- 3. tectonic plates slide past eachother
- 5. oceanic and continental plate collide, oceanic sinks beneath, melts, erupts as volcano
- 7. Order of first letter of atmosphere layers from bottom to top
- 8. the amount of solar (sun) radiation (energy from sun’s rays) reaching an area
- 9. tectonic plates collide
- 12. contains the ozone layer that protects us from harmful solar radiation
- 13. A phenomenon that causes the opposite of normal conditions in the pacific ocean due to reversed trade winds
- 14. Water _______ is how well water is retained by a soil
- 17. What is the order of soil horizons from top to bottom
- 18. Three parts like an oreo cookie. Top - rigid. Middle is magma (hot, soft-bendy rock), which moves through convection, moving plates with it. Bottom is rigid.
- 20. material The rock from which the sediment is weathered
- 21. seasons are caused by earth's _____
- 22. All of the land that drains into a specific body of water
- 23. Soil _____ are empty spaces between particles
- 24. the winds closest to the equator
- 29. how easily water drains through a soil
- 33. ___ cooling is when As air rises, there is less pressure on it, so the volume increases, so the temperature decreases
- 34. Physical earth layer that is rigid rock - crust and upper part of the mantle
- 40. transport of weathered rock away by wind or rain, carried to a new location
- 43. ____ effect is the deflection of an object's path due to the rotation of the earth