Biology\Ch.4 Ecosystems
... covered by tropical savannahs. 4) Deserts - very dry areas whether they are in cold areas (like Antarctica) or warmer regions. They receive less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation yearly. The deserts of the U.S. can get below freezing at night but over 100 degrees during the day. The s ...
... covered by tropical savannahs. 4) Deserts - very dry areas whether they are in cold areas (like Antarctica) or warmer regions. They receive less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation yearly. The deserts of the U.S. can get below freezing at night but over 100 degrees during the day. The s ...
Slab Ocean El Niño atmospheric feedbacks in Coupled Climate
... Dommenget (2010) found that El Niño-like variability, termed Slab Ocean El Niño, can exist in the absence of ocean dynamics and is driven by the interaction of the atmospheric surface heat fluxes and the heat content of the upper ocean. Further, Dommenget et al. (2014) report the Slab Ocean El Niño ...
... Dommenget (2010) found that El Niño-like variability, termed Slab Ocean El Niño, can exist in the absence of ocean dynamics and is driven by the interaction of the atmospheric surface heat fluxes and the heat content of the upper ocean. Further, Dommenget et al. (2014) report the Slab Ocean El Niño ...
GUIDE OF THE EXAM (2 nd BIMONTHLY)
... a) They carried warm or cool water through the world’s oceans b) They are the ones that affect the climate of land areas c) They are the ones that move along the Equator of from the Equator to poles d) They are the ones that bring warm air to Western Europe 12. They are the patterns of wind caused b ...
... a) They carried warm or cool water through the world’s oceans b) They are the ones that affect the climate of land areas c) They are the ones that move along the Equator of from the Equator to poles d) They are the ones that bring warm air to Western Europe 12. They are the patterns of wind caused b ...
Plate Tectonics – study of crustal movement, and the
... g/cm3. Averages 20 miles thick Oceanic Crust consists mainly of FeMags, with a density of 3.2 g/cm3. Averages 3 miles thick. Lower density of continental crust causes it to float higher on the asthenosphere than oceanic crust. ...
... g/cm3. Averages 20 miles thick Oceanic Crust consists mainly of FeMags, with a density of 3.2 g/cm3. Averages 3 miles thick. Lower density of continental crust causes it to float higher on the asthenosphere than oceanic crust. ...
Chapter 5 Atoms to Minerals
... eruptions that can burry whole cities like Pompeii (79 AD) with little warning. ...
... eruptions that can burry whole cities like Pompeii (79 AD) with little warning. ...
Evidence of continental drift
... sent the continents adrift. Wegner called the supercontinent Pangaea which means “all the earth” in Greek. Pangaea broke up 200 mya. The northern half of Pangaea was referred to as Laurasia and the southern portion is known as Gondwanaland. ...
... sent the continents adrift. Wegner called the supercontinent Pangaea which means “all the earth” in Greek. Pangaea broke up 200 mya. The northern half of Pangaea was referred to as Laurasia and the southern portion is known as Gondwanaland. ...
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... result, the Atlantic Ocean is getting wider. As it spreads, it pushes the continents further away. • The Pacific Ocean covers almost 1/3 of the planet, yet it’s shrinking! The Pacific is surrounded by many trenches. The deep-ocean trenches swallow more oceanic crust than the mid-ocean ridge can crea ...
... result, the Atlantic Ocean is getting wider. As it spreads, it pushes the continents further away. • The Pacific Ocean covers almost 1/3 of the planet, yet it’s shrinking! The Pacific is surrounded by many trenches. The deep-ocean trenches swallow more oceanic crust than the mid-ocean ridge can crea ...
Chapter 7-1 and 7-2 Review
... 4. _______________________ Crust that is found under the oceans. 5. _______________________ A layer that holds the crust and upper mantle. 6. _______________________ The layer of the Earth that is over land. 7. _______________________ This layer of the Earth is solid because of the intense pressure ...
... 4. _______________________ Crust that is found under the oceans. 5. _______________________ A layer that holds the crust and upper mantle. 6. _______________________ The layer of the Earth that is over land. 7. _______________________ This layer of the Earth is solid because of the intense pressure ...
Paleooceanography and Sea
... • The southern continents started moving away as early as 170 Ma ago – Oceanic crust did not form between South America and the Antarctic prior to 20 Ma • Jenkins (1978) argues about 28 Ma ...
... • The southern continents started moving away as early as 170 Ma ago – Oceanic crust did not form between South America and the Antarctic prior to 20 Ma • Jenkins (1978) argues about 28 Ma ...
DOC - Europa.eu
... Damanaki and Geoghegan-Quinn; other representatives of the EU Atlantic Coastal States; and representatives from research and industry. Since 2002, the European Union has invested over two billion euro in more than one thousand marine research projects. These include: ...
... Damanaki and Geoghegan-Quinn; other representatives of the EU Atlantic Coastal States; and representatives from research and industry. Since 2002, the European Union has invested over two billion euro in more than one thousand marine research projects. These include: ...
Chapter 9: Plate Tectonics Review
... • Is the result of new ocean floor, such as the mid-ocean ridge and valley’s on land. ...
... • Is the result of new ocean floor, such as the mid-ocean ridge and valley’s on land. ...
Subducting basaltic crust as a water transporter into the Earth`s
... 1600°C which corresponds to conditions of the deep upper mantle and the mantle transition zone. In this system, two stable phases were identified whose composition is expressed by (FeH)1-xTixO2, and one of them with α-PbO2 type structure (orthorhombic, Pbcn) is stable in the system basalt + H2O at p ...
... 1600°C which corresponds to conditions of the deep upper mantle and the mantle transition zone. In this system, two stable phases were identified whose composition is expressed by (FeH)1-xTixO2, and one of them with α-PbO2 type structure (orthorhombic, Pbcn) is stable in the system basalt + H2O at p ...
Introduction to Plate Tectonics - EHS
... – a great mountain range on the ocean floor, the global mid-ocean ridge, encircled the Earth. • more than 50,000 kilometers (km) long and up to 1000 km across • zig-zags between the continents • Rising about 4,500 meters(m) above the sea floor, – Taller than all mountains in the US except for Mount ...
... – a great mountain range on the ocean floor, the global mid-ocean ridge, encircled the Earth. • more than 50,000 kilometers (km) long and up to 1000 km across • zig-zags between the continents • Rising about 4,500 meters(m) above the sea floor, – Taller than all mountains in the US except for Mount ...
Boundary Types (1) PowerPoint
... The continents are moving because of sea floor spreading. • Running down the middle of the oceans are long mountain chains with valleys in the middle called mid ocean ridges. Lava erupts from the center of the valley and pushes the ocean floor away on the other side. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is separ ...
... The continents are moving because of sea floor spreading. • Running down the middle of the oceans are long mountain chains with valleys in the middle called mid ocean ridges. Lava erupts from the center of the valley and pushes the ocean floor away on the other side. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is separ ...
MISSION TO EUROPA – LANDER AND ORBITER CAPABILITIES
... help detect whether the youngest lineations on the surface correlate with shallower liquid layers. At Mars the MARSIS and SHARAD instruments “imaged” the entire thickness of the polar caps. However, that confirms the Martian ice caps contain relatively pure ice, low in salts. If the crust of Europa ...
... help detect whether the youngest lineations on the surface correlate with shallower liquid layers. At Mars the MARSIS and SHARAD instruments “imaged” the entire thickness of the polar caps. However, that confirms the Martian ice caps contain relatively pure ice, low in salts. If the crust of Europa ...
Tsunami Geology - What Causes a Tsunami?
... Subduction Zones are Potential Tsunami Locations Most tsunamis are caused by earthquakes generated in a subduction zone, an area where an oceanic plate is being forced down into the mantle by plate tectonic forces. The friction between the subducting plate and the overriding plate is enormous. This ...
... Subduction Zones are Potential Tsunami Locations Most tsunamis are caused by earthquakes generated in a subduction zone, an area where an oceanic plate is being forced down into the mantle by plate tectonic forces. The friction between the subducting plate and the overriding plate is enormous. This ...
Unit 07 Test Review
... 6. What would be the best possible explanation for fossils of land-dwelling organisms found on the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa? There was a time in Earth’s history, when the Atlantic Ocean did not exist, and the continents of Africa and South America were joined togethe ...
... 6. What would be the best possible explanation for fossils of land-dwelling organisms found on the east coast of South America and the west coast of Africa? There was a time in Earth’s history, when the Atlantic Ocean did not exist, and the continents of Africa and South America were joined togethe ...
File - Flipped Out Science with Mrs. Thomas!
... A long, narrow, and steep depression that forms on the ocean floor as a result of subduction of a tectonic plate, that runs parallel to the trend of a chain of volcanic islands or the coastline of a continent, and that may be as deep as 11 km below sea level; also called an ocean trench or a deepoce ...
... A long, narrow, and steep depression that forms on the ocean floor as a result of subduction of a tectonic plate, that runs parallel to the trend of a chain of volcanic islands or the coastline of a continent, and that may be as deep as 11 km below sea level; also called an ocean trench or a deepoce ...
Plate Tectonics and the Ocean Floor opens with a brief history of
... 1. List the evidence used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift theory including: A. similarities in rock sequences on different continents B. comparison of continental glacial deposits C. distribution of common fossils 2. Distinguish between Wegener’s explanation for continental drift ...
... 1. List the evidence used by Alfred Wegener to support his continental drift theory including: A. similarities in rock sequences on different continents B. comparison of continental glacial deposits C. distribution of common fossils 2. Distinguish between Wegener’s explanation for continental drift ...
ocean and climate change institute Woods Hole oceanograpHic institution
... past can reveal clues to possible future climate. But modern climate records, using accurate thermometers, wind gauges, and other essential measuring devices, did not exist more than 150 years ago. While we can see strong trends, including global warming, in the modern record, it is too short to dec ...
... past can reveal clues to possible future climate. But modern climate records, using accurate thermometers, wind gauges, and other essential measuring devices, did not exist more than 150 years ago. While we can see strong trends, including global warming, in the modern record, it is too short to dec ...
An Overview of the Ocean
... between ocean and atmospheric patterns; how ocean depth relates to ocean content; the diversity of marine organisms and what determines their specific ocean habitat; the results of nature’s and human influences on marine life; and what can to done to improve/maintain a healthy ocean environment. The ...
... between ocean and atmospheric patterns; how ocean depth relates to ocean content; the diversity of marine organisms and what determines their specific ocean habitat; the results of nature’s and human influences on marine life; and what can to done to improve/maintain a healthy ocean environment. The ...
Name
... Gaseous Planets Jupiter – largest planet, Great Red Spot, 60+ moons, Europa has ice, Io volcanoes ...
... Gaseous Planets Jupiter – largest planet, Great Red Spot, 60+ moons, Europa has ice, Io volcanoes ...
Seafloor Spreading (LT 1, 3-5)
... cools, contracts and begins to sink helping to form the obtains rock samples from the seafloor ...
... cools, contracts and begins to sink helping to form the obtains rock samples from the seafloor ...
The Salinity of Seawater
... la Salure de l’Ocean Atlantique” (Note on the Saltness of the Atlantic Ocean). A number of seawater samples were gathered from the middle of the English Channel by Gay-Lussac himself. It not only shows his willingness to go to sea but his understanding that the chemist should take his own samples wh ...
... la Salure de l’Ocean Atlantique” (Note on the Saltness of the Atlantic Ocean). A number of seawater samples were gathered from the middle of the English Channel by Gay-Lussac himself. It not only shows his willingness to go to sea but his understanding that the chemist should take his own samples wh ...
1. There is a link between WHY they occur and - DP
... magnets can't exist, because thermal energy makes atoms vibrate and tumble so fast that their tiny magnetic dipoles can't lock into alignment. •Instead, the Earth is a "self-exciting dynamo," meaning that the magnetism is produced by electric currents in the outer core. •This is the magnetism that l ...
... magnets can't exist, because thermal energy makes atoms vibrate and tumble so fast that their tiny magnetic dipoles can't lock into alignment. •Instead, the Earth is a "self-exciting dynamo," meaning that the magnetism is produced by electric currents in the outer core. •This is the magnetism that l ...
Ocean
An ocean (from Ancient Greek Ὠκεανός, transc. Okeanós, the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere. On Earth, an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the World Ocean, which covers almost 71% of its surface. These are, in descending order by area, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic Oceans. The word sea is often used interchangeably with ""ocean"" in American English but, strictly speaking, a sea is a body of saline water (generally a division of the world ocean) partly or fully enclosed by land.Saline water covers approximately 72% of the planet's surface (~3.6×108 km2) and is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas, with the ocean covering approximately 71% of Earth's surface. The ocean contains 97% of Earth's water, and oceanographers have stated that only 5% of the World Ocean has been explored. The total volume is approximately 1.35 billion cubic kilometers (320 million cu mi) with an average depth of nearly 3,700 meters (12,100 ft).As it is the principal component of Earth's hydrosphere, the world ocean is integral to all known life, forms part of the carbon cycle, and influences climate and weather patterns. It is the habitat of 230,000 known species, although much of the oceans depths remain unexplored, and over two million marine species are estimated to exist. The origin of Earth's oceans remains unknown; oceans are thought to have formed in the Hadean period and may have been the impetus for the emergence of life.Extraterrestrial oceans may be composed of water or other elements and compounds. The only confirmed large stable bodies of extraterrestrial surface liquids are the lakes of Titan, although there is evidence for the existence of oceans elsewhere in the Solar System. Early in their geologic histories, Mars and Venus are theorized to have had large water oceans. The Mars ocean hypothesis suggests that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was once covered by water, and a runaway greenhouse effect may have boiled away the global ocean of Venus. Compounds such as salts and ammonia dissolved in water lower its freezing point, so that water might exist in large quantities in extraterrestrial environments as brine or convecting ice. Unconfirmed oceans are speculated beneath the surface of many dwarf planets and natural satellites; notably, the ocean of Europa is estimated to have over twice the water volume of Earth. The Solar System's giant planets are also thought to have liquid atmospheric layers of yet to be confirmed compositions. Oceans may also exist on exoplanets and exomoons, including surface oceans of liquid water within a circumstellar habitable zone. Ocean planets are a hypothetical type of planet with a surface completely covered with liquid.