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Layers of earth
1. hard metals and stuff
Inner core
2. molten metals and stuff
Outer core
3. convection currents and magma
Mantle
4. tectonic plates
Lithosphere (crust)
Geological history:
1. volcanic, 4.6 billion years ago
Precambrian
2.lush, start of life, 570 million years ago
Paleozoic
3. dinosaurs, 250 million years ago
mesozoic
4. ice ages, modern life and regions, 66 million years ago
cenozoic
Theorized that continents plates were once connected
Alfred Wegener
Theorized the existence of tectonic plates and that they moved
J Tuzo Wilson
Plate boundaries: 1. pushing together, creates earthquakes, mountains. Subduction is when a plate goes under another plate
Convection
2. two plates move apart, creates volcanos, usually happens in ocreans
Divergent
3. move against each other, parallel, creates earthquakes
transform
Landform regions, 1. mountainous
Western cordillera
2. prairies
Interior plains
3. Wet and swampy
Hudson bay lowlands
4. Swampy mountains
Appalachians
5. Rocky and rocks and lotsa rocks
Canadian shield
6. cold and snowy
arctic
Types of forces 1.Breaking down rocks from ice and snow and stuff
Weathering
2. movement of rocks to new places
erosion
3. Rocks and stuff being built up
deposition
4. ice sheets covering up large areas and changing the land
glaciation
lake made by a glacier melting
kettle lake
Magma flows under plates and moves them
convection currents
A large flat region made of rocks and stuff from a glacier
Till plains
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region made from a glacier moving rocks and stuff with a ridge or mound shape
Moraine
Rock cycle: 1. Lava cooling
Igneous
2.Soil and stuff collecting and getting pressured into rocks
Sedimentary
3.Other rocks get heat and pressure on it and get turned into new rocks
Metamorphic
LOWERN. L.
latitude
O.
ocean currents
W
wind and air masses
E
elevation
R
relief
N
Nearness to water
Rocks below the soil break down and turn into soil
parent materal
too much water, the nutrients go under the soil
leeching
too little water, good nutrients, but water cant reach it
Calcification
Boreal, pines, needles
coniferus
Warmer locations, leafy
Deciduous
Prairies, tall and short grass
grasslands
arctic, mossy and lichen
moss and lichen
Greenhouse effect: 1. sunlight enters the ___
atmosphere
2. energy is absorbed by surfaces and ___
gasses
3. heat is captured by _______
greenhouse gasses
Ability for an object to reflect sunlight
Albedo
Something happens which causes something else to happen which causes the initial thing to happen
Feedback loop
Things you can do at home to reduce climate change
individual
things government and companies do to reduce amount of climate change
system
things government and companies do to protect nature from climate change
nature
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