Earth & Space Spring Final

A ___________ thunderstorm can occur when an air mass is forced to rise over a land feature.

These are all examples of greenhouse gases EXCEPT

Warmer global climates caused by minimal glacial coverage are referred to as

A ________ ________ is the vegetative buffer zone surrounding a stream.

What instrument was critical in the discovery of seafloor spreading?

A lightning bolt is formed when positively charged ions come up from the ground called a

This marks the boundaries of a watershed.

Which evidence did Wegener NOT use in proposing his hypothesis on continental drift?

The upper boundary of the zone of saturation is called

______________ is the study of Earth's climates in order to predict climate change.

This weather phenomena occurs when warm ocean waters combine with weak trade winds.

The lowest part of a wave is called 

Which scale is used to measure the intensity or damage caused by an earthquake?

This thermal energy transfer is the movement of heated material from one place to another.

Changes in temperature and ________ create deep ocean currents.

Which of these is NOT a part of the water cycle

The ________ ________ occur between 30 degrees north and south of the equator.

Which layer of the atmosphere does the ozone layer occur?

When water has a high concentration of minerals it is called

Rift valleys are characteristic of what kind of plate boundary?

This occurs when the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth are aligned during new and full moons.

A ________ is the natural discharge of water caused by an aquifer and and a aquiclude meeting.

Weather averages of a given located collected over a 30 year period are referred to as

A sinkhole is a depression formed by the collapse of a cave typically through dissolution.

What do we call a land area that is covered by water for most or part of the year?

S-waves occur before P-waves during an earthquake.

All of these terms are associated with the anatomy of a volcano EXCEPT

All the water on Earth is referred to as 

At least 3 seismometer stations are needed to locate the epicenter of an earthquake.

Wind patterns affect the ocean typically in the top hundred meters creating

Which instrument is used to measure humidity?