Environmental

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Subduction creates volcanos when one tectonic plate is pushed down by another. Transverse movement is when the tectonic plates apply so much pressure that they slip sideways/earthquake. Ecosystem is all living things and nonliving things in an area. Lithosphere is part of the earth beneath ou feet, solid. Hydrosphere is all of the water on the earth. Atomosphere is the gas/CO2. Climate is the weathern pattern average over a long period of time in a region. Biomes are subecosystems, ecosystems on a continental scale, for example a rainforest. Tectonic plates are the structure of the crust of the earth, bounderies between the plates are called fault lines. Igneous Rock is formed from lava such as granite or basalt. The hydrologic cycle is drops of water combined together to make rain, liquid to gas, earth to sky and back, it is a movement of water through an ecosystem. Carbon is found in the atmosphere primarly, CO2. The Carbon cycle is taken up by plants in which it changes from inorganic to organic material which is taken up by animals and then humans and then we discard it and the cycle continues. Horographic is rainfall induced by mountains. Convection is when change occurs in a narrow area of the earth. Biosphere is the sum total of all living things. Biota is living. Rifting is when tectonic plates move apart to create a trench. Alfred Venger came up with the theory that the earth is floating around on molten rock. Serpentine Barrons are areas where the soil is not good, and 80 percent of all indangered species are found, and only one foot of soil has been produced, and Asbestos is found near serpentine. Climate=temp,and precipitation. Convergence is when plates move and meet and crumble edges and deformed which forms mountain ranges. Mountain formation is the result of tectonic plates colliding. Sedimentary rock is sandstone, siltstone, and shale. Metamorphic rock are rocks that have changed into another form, for example gneiss ro...