Water resources, meteorology and geology

A structure where water is stored underground.

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

When a river carves out a groove in the surface of the Earth

winds that blow easterly from both 30-degree latitudes toward the equator

When cold, deep water rises to the surface with nutrients it is known as what?

Weather over a long period of time is known as what?

The type of plate boundary where two plates move towards each other.....

Transform boundaries are are associated with...

Heat energy released from ocean currents can affect an area's what?

Two tectonic plates move towards each other at a _______ plate boundary.

Theory stating that continents once made up a supercontinent, have been drifting apart.

The curved paths of global winds and surface currents are caused by

Cool surface water temperatures in the Eastern Pacific cause what?

Name the boundary

Chemosynthesis is what?

Winds that blow from west to east pushing storms across the USA

When sediments are moved across the Earth is called:

Materials that water moves through are what?

What happens often at this boundary?

A divergent boundary is when plates ....

Name this type of plate boundary.

Deep-ocean current that moves water around the globe.

More than 97% of Earth’s total water is located where?

Pollution that can't be traced back to a single source.

Pollution that can be traced back to a single source is called

A a warm current in Eastern Pacific Ocean produces what .

Name this type of plate boundary

Desalination is

Earth's atmosphere at a certain time and place?

Winds that blow from the east to the west in the Polar region

The process for new oceanic lithosphere forming at mid ocean ridges

The area of land that drains into a water body

Movement of ocean water caused by wind that occurs at or near the ocean's surface.

Earthquakes and volcanoes are mostly found where?

two things effected by surface currents.

Measure of dissolved salts in water is known as what?