Wreck Ur Self Study 1

Question 1

What happens at a convergent boundary

Answer 1

2 types subductions (earthquakes trenches and volcanic arcs) and collisions (mountain ranges)

Question 2

What happens at a divergent boundary

Answer 2

Slide away. Cause volcanic activity, earthquakes and ridges

Question 3

What happens at a transform boundary

Answer 3

Slide past (faults and earthquakes)

Question 4

What is parent material

Answer 4

Rock that is worn down and becomes the base of soil

Question 5

Horizons in order bottom to top

Answer 5

C B A O

Question 6

What is c horizon

Answer 6

Not weathered, lots of groundwater, similar to parent material

Question 7

What is B horizon

Answer 7

Rich in minerals (iron clay aluminum), zone of illuvation, subsoil

Question 8

What is A horizon

Answer 8

Topsoil, organic material, humus, nutrient poor due to leaching

Question 9

What is O horizon

Answer 9

Humus and organic materials

Question 10

Factors of clay

Answer 10

Smooth texture, high water holding capacity, small particles, slow permeability, porous and fertile

Question 11

Factors of loam

Answer 11

Combination of silt, Sand and clay. Good for agriculture

Question 12

Factors of sand

Answer 12

Low water holding capacity, large particles, moderate permeability, infertile

Question 13

Factors of silt

Answer 13

Smooth texture, holds moderate amount of water, low permeability

Question 14

Reservoirs of water

Answer 14

Ice cap
Ground water

Question 15

Explain water cycle

Answer 15

Water then evaporate then condense repeat

Question 16

What’s infiltration?

Answer 16

When the water enters the soil

Question 17

What’s percolation?

Answer 17

The movement of water through the layers of soil

Question 18

What is a watershed?

Answer 18

An area of land where all of the flowing water converges into a single point

Question 19

What’s impervious cover?

Answer 19

Areas that don’t allow water through

Question 20

What’s a trubutary?

Answer 20

Stems of water (rivers) that connect together

Question 21

What’s a divide in a watershed?

Answer 21

A part of land that’s slanted so the water flows down towards the tributary

Question 22

What are the three air cells?

Answer 22

Ferrell, Hadley and Polar

Question 23

What’s the coirolis effect?

Answer 23

Causes storms to spin clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere.

Question 24

What’s trade winds?

Answer 24

Winds that blow east to west slightly above and below the equator

Question 25

What’s insolation

Answer 25

The solar energy that is reviewed by the earth

Question 26

What is rain shadow

Answer 26

Rain is only on one side of a mountain