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ES1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who first theorized about continental drift? | Alfred Wegner (1915) |
| What was the super continent called? | Pangea |
| What evidence is there for continental drift? | Matching fossil formations, ancient glacial features, rock formations, and continents looks like they fit together. |
| What are the three types of plate boundaries? | Divergent, convergent, and transform |
| What does the divergent plate boundary do? | Two plates are moving apart, can form valleys (on land) or oceanic ridges (in water) |
| What does the convergent plate boundary do? | Two plates collide. Include subduction zones, creates trenches, mountains, and seafloor spreading. |
| What do transform plate boundaries do? | Two plates slide past each other. Earthquakes can happen. |
| What is the mechanism that explains continental drift? | Continents rest on massive slabs of rock-- tectonic plates. |
| Condensation | When water vapor in clouds cools down and becomes liquid |
| Evaporation | When heat causes water to vaporize |
| Precipitation | When some form of water falls from the sky (rain, snow) |
| Transpiration | When plants loose water and it gets absorbed into the air |
| Sublimation | When ice turns into gas without first becoming a liquid |
| Confined aquifer | It's water that is found below the earths surface that has a layer of impenetrable rock/clay above it |
| Unconfined aquifer | It's water that is found below the earths surface that lies below a permeable layer of soil |
| Humus | Soil layer with dark organic material that consists of dead plants and animals (O) |
| Topsoil | Soil layer with high concentration of organic matter and microorganisms. Where most biological soil activity occurs. (A) |
| Subsoil | Soil layer with maximum clay/salt accumulation. Zone of illuviation (B) |
| Regolith | Soil layer with weathered rock. Has not been altered by the soil forming process (C) |
| Bedrock | The hard, consolidated rock beneath the soil. (R) |
| What five physical and chemical processes affect soil development? | Parent rock, climate, time, flora/fauna, elevation. |
| Atomsphere | The layers of gases surrounding a planet. |
| Biosphere | Made up parts of the Earth where life exists. |
| Hydrosphere | The total amount of water on the planet. |
| Lithosphere | The solid, outer part of the Earth. |
| Respiration | A process where cells convert food and oxygen into energy, water, and carbon dioxide. |
| Carbonic acid | Acid formed when carbon dioxide dissolves in water. |
| Carbon pool | Reservoirs of carbon that have the ability to release and take in carbon |
| What are the four types of carbon pools? | The ocean, terrestrial ecosystems (forests), Earth's crust, the atmosphere. |
| What processes remove CO2 from the atomsphere? | Plants photosynthesizing, phytoplankton in ocean, and decaying carcasses. |
| What processes add CO2 to the atmosphere? | When organisms respire or decay, fires happen, or oil/coal/natural gas is burned. |
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