End of Year Earth Science Part 1

Front

Water stored in underground layer

Back

Aquifers

Front

Which statement is true about streamside vegetation?

Back

roots help stabilize shorelines, preventing erosion

Front

What is the name of a climate event that occurs every two to seven years in the Pacific Ocean?

Back

El Nino

Front

In the northern hemisphere, the Coriolis effect causes currents to do which of the following?

Back

curve clockwise

Front

What is the horizontal distance between wave crests called?

Back

wavelength

Front

The place where new ocean floor forms is called the...

Back

mid ocean ridge

Front

____ are formed on the sea floor when one crustal plate is shoved under another crustal plate.

Back

trenches

Front

Subduction of the ocean floor occurs at which feature?

Back

deep ocean trench

Front

If a bear eats a fish that ate a smaller fish that ate algae, the bear in this chain is a

Back

3rd level consumer

Front

Folded mountains are created at which boundary? Options: convergent, divergent, transform

Back

convergent