Water resources, meteorology and geology

When sediments are moved across the Earth is called:

A structure where water is stored underground.

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

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

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

Earthquakes and volcanoes are mostly found where?

Cool surface water temperatures in the Eastern Pacific cause what?

Deep-ocean current that moves water around the globe.

What happens often at this boundary?

A a warm current in Eastern Pacific Ocean produces what .

Desalination is

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

Measure of dissolved salts in water is known as what?

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

The process for new oceanic lithosphere forming at mid ocean ridges

Name this type of plate boundary

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

The area of land that drains into a water body

The area where two tectonic plates meet.

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

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

Materials that water moves through are what?

A divergent boundary is when plates ....

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

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

Name this type of plate boundary.

Name the boundary

Chemosynthesis is what?

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

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

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

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

two things effected by surface currents.

Transform boundaries are are associated with...

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

Earth's atmosphere at a certain time and place?