| Question |
Answer |
| El Nino |
Upwelling stops. East gets higher |
| La Nina |
Upwelling stronger, west gets higher |
| Percent of water in ocean |
97.5 |
| Coriolis effect |
to the right in the north, left in the south |
| Gyre |
Large, circular ocean current |
| Thermohaline Circulation |
Water Transports to poles, cools and sinks; Water flows deep at the bottom of the ocean; Prevailing winds off the coast blow surface waters away, and deep water rises up-upwelling. |
| Winds away from equator |
Northeasterly Trade winds, Prevailing westerlies, Polar easterlies, directions shift in southern hemisphere |
| Circulation cells away from equator |
Hadley, Ferrel, Polar |
| ITCZ |
InterTropical Convergence Zone |
| Layers of the Atmosphere |
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere |
| Layers of the Earth |
Crust, Mantel, Core |
| Mechanical Layers of the Earth |
Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, Outer Core, Inner Core |
| P-Wave |
Compression Motion like slinky |
| S-Wave |
Up/Down Motion |
| Rayleigh Wave |
Back and forth and up and down |
| Love Wave |
Back and forth and left and right |
| Lake Levels |
Epilimnion, Thermocline, Hypolimnion |
| Oligotrophic |
Not much nutrients, not productive |
| Mesotrophic |
medium nutrients/productivity |
| Eutrophic |
High Nutrients/Productivity |
| Relative Humidity |
Ratio of the air's actual water content to its potential water vapor content at a given temperature, expressed as percent |
| R-Selected |
High population growth rate, poor competitors |
| K-Selected |
low growth rate, good competitors |
| Tribal Ara |
Nomadic hunter gatherer, little impact on environment |
| Frontier area |
Conquer the land |
| Early Conservation Era |
Save stuff for later use |
| Environmental Era |
intrinsic values of nature, our place in the environment |
| Simpsons index |
probability that two random samples will be of the same species |
| simpsons index of diversity |
probability that 2 organisms will be different |
| Simpson's reciprocal index |
the number of catagories with the same index |
| NEPA |
National Environmental Policy Act-Governmental agencies must take environment into consideration |
| CERCLA |
Superfund-clean up toxic waste |
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