Systems and Cycles
In open systems energy and matter can enter and leave freely. In closed systems matter cannot enter and leave but some energy can.
What is The difference between open and closed system?
Carbon exists in what environment
What is Nonliving
This fuels the water cycle
What is The Sun
This is how many laws there are
What is 3
These were the three things measured at the river
What is Transparency, stream flow, dissolved oxygen
Earth is this type of system
What is Closed system
Name one way carbon is released into the air
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What is Respiration, Combustion, Deforestation, or Decomposition
Evaporation through plants is known as...
What is Transpiration
This is what a force is
What is A push or pull
Typical standard for transparency and dissolved oxygen
What is 75cm and 7mg/L
These are the four different spheres
What are Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere
Humans and animals get carbon this way
What is Food Chain
MThese two things can happen to water after it precipitates to the Earth
What is Infiltration or Runoff
Names 3 out of 6 of the contact forces
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What is Friction, Tension, Air Resistance, Normal, Applied, or Spring
Measured in ft3/s
What is stream flow
A car getting faster and faster is what type of feedback loop
What is Negative Feedback loop
Names forms of Carbon in each sphere
Geo: soil/rocks
Bio: plants
Atmo: CO2
Hydro: water
Name a negative effect of too much runoff
What is Flooding
This is what force is measured in
Newtons
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What is rain, runoff, agriculture, construction
Clouds are part of this type of sphere (think about what clouds are made of)
What is Hydrosphere
Presence of CO2 affects the atmosphere this way
What is Carbon absorbs energy in atmosphere
Impervious surfaces cause an excess of this which negatively affects the Earth
What is Runnoff
A bird is sitting on a steady branch, these are the forces acting upon it
What is Normal and Gravity
This is how human impact typically affects river’s health
What is negatively