Three types of plate boundaries

1. Three types of plate boundaries divergent convergent transverse

2. Curves the global wind patterns Coriolus Effect

3. Soil layer where organic material is found OHorizon

4. They eat dead material and their waste enriches the soil Detrivores

5. Layer of air where jets fly Stratosphere

6. Layer of air where weather occurs Troposphere

7. Top 3 gases in atmosphere nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor

8. What happens to air at the equator? Warm moist air rises up and out cools and descendes 30o north and south of equator

9. Movement of heat in liquids or gases convection

10. Lines running pole to pole Longitude

11. How do volcanoes affect weather? Ash and microparticles causes global cooling due to blocking sunlight from reaching Earth

12. Convection circuit 0-30o north and south Hadley cell

13. Convection circuit 30-60o north or south of equator Ferrell cell

14. Describe La Nada in the Pacific Warm air rises up on Asian side heads towards Americas, descends and returns towards Asia causing upwelling of nutrients in Pacific side of Americas

15. Describe El Nino There is a reversal and warm air and ocean water moves towards the Americas from Asia

16. Effects of El Nino Harsh winter in north and drought in southern areas

17. Water absorbed by soil in the water cycle infiltration

18. General water cycle pattern Evaporation off water, condensation, and precipitation

19. The nitrogen cycle letters and what each stands for NNAAD nitrogen fixation nitrification ammonification assimilation denitrification

20. What is assimilation? Roots take up nitrates

21. What is denitrification? Nitrogen returning to atmosphere

22. Major two sources of sulfur in the atmosphere? Coal burning power plants and volcanoes

23. Acid rain gas Sulfur dioxide

24. Odd thing about the phosphorus cycle Little or no atmospheric component

25. The biotic and abiotic factors of an area interacting together ecosystem

26. Two names for organisms that make their own food energy producers autotrophs

27. A species whose health shows the health of its environment indicator species

28. All the species in one area interacting with each other? community

29. A group of one type of species population

30. Non-living components of the environment or system abiotic factors

31. Niche How an organism lives

32. Increase in organic material per unit of time Productivity

33. The number of species in an ecosystem is species richness

34. The maximum amount or population that a habitat can hold is carrying capacity

35. A species that eats an animal that eats a plant is a secondary consumer

36. This law explains why energy is lost at each trophic level 2nd law of thermodynamics

37. Form of energy lost at each trophic level Heat

38. Determines biomes Climate

39. First species to return to a destroyed habitat… Pioneer species

40. Biome whose primary vegetation is evergreens Arboreal forest or Taiga

41. The plants that move in following a degradation of an ecosystem secondary succession

42. The final step of succession… climax community

43. A species critical to the success of an ecosystem keystone species

44. A species that creates or improves and ecosystem foundation species

45. Trees that lose their leaves in winter Deciduous trees

46. Weight of organic matter produced by plants biomass

47. Biome with nutrient rich soil grasslands or wetlands

48. Biome soil low in nutrients Rainforest

49. Photosynthesis sunlight and carbon dioxide makes sugar and oxygen

50. Importance of predators - limit populations - keep genetic strength of prey by killing old or ill