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Coriolis effect
________- because the earth is spinning, although winds are traveling in a straight line, they seem to deflect or change direction.
Deforestation
________- lack or roots holding down soil.
El nino
________- east to west trade winds in the tropics weaken or sometimes reverse direction, warm water is pushed to western coasts of the Americas and causes the surface water to heat up, cool water is unable to rise along Americas western coasts resulting in less food for predators and fisherman.
La nina
________- extreme version of normal conditions, trade winds from east to west speed up, pushing warm water even further away from the Pacific & the Americas and more towards Australia and Atlantic, unusually cool surface water temperatures along Americas coasts, hurricane activity in the Pacific declines but it increases in the Atlantic since it is unusually warmer.
Soil Texture Triangle
________- diagram that allows for the comparison and identification of soil types based on the percentage of silt, clay, and sand it contains
O Horizon
________- organic matter is various stages of decomposition
Solutions for Erosion
________- maintain plant cover, no till farming, strip /contour cropping or plowing.
Earthquakes
________- occur at fault lines.
A Horizon
________- (topsoil), overlying organic material
Convergent boundaries
________- when two plates collided, results in mountains, volcanoes, island arcs, earthquakes.
Water Holding Capacity
________ - total amount of water soil can hold.
Transform boundaries
________- when two plates slide past each other, results in earthquakes.
Polar cells
________- 60- 90 degrees N & S.
Ferrel cells
________- 30- 60 degrees N & S.
Divergent boundaries
________- when two plates move away from each other, results in seafloor spreading, rift valleys, volcanoes, earthquakes.
Hadley cells
________- 0- 30 degrees N & S.
Soil Formation
________ - when parent material is weathered and eroded.
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