Earth Systems
This a group of Earth component that work together.
A system
This Earth process moves water through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Water Cycle
This is the thin envelope of gases surrounding Earth?
Feedback is the return of this to a system.
Information
This is a large, slow-moving mass of ice.
Glacier
How can the hydrosphere affect the geosphere?
Creating erosion on rock
This provides the energy that drives the water cycle.
Heat from the sun
This subsystem is where weather happens.
Atmosphere
This type of feedback causes a system to change more and more.
Positive feedback
This happens when land air rises after heavy ice melts away.
Rebound
This subsystem contains all living things on Earth.
Biosphere
This process turns liquid water into water vapor.
Evaporation
This subsystem includes oceans, rivers, lakes, and groundwater.
Hydrosphere
Melting glaciers are an example of this type of feedback?
Positive feedback
Greenland's land is rising because this heavy load is being removed.
Glaciers
This subsystem includes rocks, metals, the mantle, and the core.
Geosphere
This process turns water vapor into liquid droplets.
Condensation
This subsystem includes Earth's crust, mantle, and core.
Geosphere
Melting glaciers expose land and air, which causes this.
Global warming speeds up.
Rebound is similar to this object returning to its shape after pressure is removed.
Springs back upward.
This icy part of Earth includes glaciers and ice caps.
Cryosphere
This Earth subsystem holds all of Earth's water.
Hydrosphere
This subsystem interacts with all others to support life.
Biosphere
This explains why melting glaciers are positive feedback.
Melting leads to more warming, which causes even more melting.
Explain the boat comparison in your textbook.
When the weight is removed, both the land and the boat rise back up.