AP Environmental Review

What is El Nino and how does it impact global weather patterns?

• El Nino is a type of dessert made with chocolate and vanilla, causing people to gain weight and impacting their health.

• El Nino is a type of dance popular in South America, causing people to feel happier and impacting cultural events.

• El Nino is a climate pattern that occurs in the Pacific Ocean, causing warmer water temperatures and impacting global weather patterns.

• El Nino is a type of fish found in the Atlantic Ocean, causing colder water temperatures and impacting local weather patterns.

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Describe the different layers of the atmosphere and their characteristics.

• Hotosphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere

• Troposphere, Stratosphere, Megalosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere

• Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere

• Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Hypersphere

Discuss the effects of El Nino on marine life and ecosystems.

• El Nino can lead to changes in water temperature, nutrient availability, and food sources for marine organisms.

• El Nino only affects land animals and has no impact on marine life

• El Nino causes an increase in water temperature, nutrient availability, and food sources for marine organisms

• El Nino has no effect on marine life and ecosystems

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Tectonic plates consist of

• continental crust.

• mesosphere.

• both continental and oceanic crust.

• oceanic crust.

The fact that similar fossils are found on both sides of the ocean is evidence of

• magnetic reversal.

• global positioning.

• continental drift.

• oceanic drift.

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The movement of the tectonic plates is caused by

• the rotation of the Earth.

• convection currents in the Asthenosphere

• the gravity of the iron-nickel core.

• the Moho discontinuity.

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Most geologists think that the movement of Earth’s plates is caused by _______

• convection.

• continental drift.

• subduction.

• conduction.

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What is common at convergent boundaries?

• Valleys

• Canyons

• Mountains

• Rivers

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The wearing away or a change in the appearance or texture of something by long exposure.

• Environmental Factors

• Weathering

• Organic Matter

• Soil Horizon

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Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of soil?

• clay

• sand

• silt

• mud