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earth's interior - Answer-solid crust, semi-solid mantle, liquid core, solid core lithosphere - Answer-the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle tectonic plates - Answer-Sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection currents. oceanic plate - Answer-Th...

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APES Review 1 Earth Systems and
Resources Exam Questions and
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earth's interior - Answer-solid crust, semi-solid mantle, liquid core, solid core

lithosphere - Answer-the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle

tectonic plates - Answer-Sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection
currents.

oceanic plate - Answer-This is a tectonic plate that is a thinner, denser and heavier type

continental plate - Answer-Thicker but lighter plate that makes up most continents

plate boundaries - Answer-the edges of tectonic plates.

convergent - Answer-a boundary where earth's tectonic plates move toward each other.
This causes a collision or subduction. This will result in the formation of volcanoes and
mountain ranges.

divergent - Answer-plates move apart

transform - Answer-Plates slide past each other

subduction - Answer-a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced
sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate

focus - Answer-The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and
causes an earthquake

epicenter - Answer-the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an
earthquake

seismograph - Answer-a measuring instrument for detecting and measuring the
intensity and direction and duration of movements of the ground (as an earthquake)

richter scale - Answer-a scale that rates an earthquake's magnitude based on the size
of its seismic waves

tsunami - Answer-a huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake)

earth's tilt - Answer-23.5°, the reason we have seasons

, albedo - Answer-percent of solar radiation reflected by a surface, dark surfaces have
low

atmospheric nitrogen - Answer-78%

atmospheric oxygen - Answer-21%

atmospheric carbon dioxide - Answer-0.04%

troposphere - Answer-first layer of atmosphere. Contains weather, greenhouse gases
(bad ozone).

stratosphere - Answer-the layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer;
temperature increases as you go up

mesosphere - Answer-the layer of the atmosphere between the stratosphere and the
thermosphere and in which temperature decreases as altitude increases

thermosphere - Answer-the outermost shell of the atmosphere, between the
mesosphere and outer space, where temperatures increase steadily with altitude.

weather - Answer-the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and
precipitation

climate - Answer-the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time

wind - Answer-air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high
pressure to an area of low pressure

convection current - Answer-the movement of a fluid, caused by differences in
temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another

dew point - Answer-the temperature at which the water vapor in the air becomes
saturated and condensation begins

hadley cells - Answer-convection current in the atmosphere that cycles between the
equator and 30° N and 30° S.

trade winds - Answer-prevailing winds that blow from east to west from 30 degrees
latitude to the equator in both hemispheres

horse latitudes - Answer-a relatively calm area located near both 30 degrees latitudes
where cool air sinks

doldrums - Answer-calm, windless part of the ocean near the equator

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