Atmosphere
What is the atmosphere?
What is the geosphere?
all of the rocks and minerals present on the Earth are apart of the geosphere.
What is the Biosphere ?
Biosphere contains all of the Earth's living things.
What is sublimation? Provide a place on Earth where sublimation occurs.
Sublimation is the process by which solid water (ice) phase changes into gas (water vapor) without transitioning first as liquid. Also, as with evaporation, the sun's heat causes sublimation to work, and on top of Mt. Everest on a clear day, the sun is very strong and provides energy for sublimation, even though it is below freezing.
What is percolation
the movement of water through soil itself
What is the most abundant element in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
What are the layers of the geosphere?
What two factors drive the Water cycle ?
What is precipitation?
precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
Describe what solid, liquid, & gas are in terms of their atomic structure.
Solids have a definite shape and volume.Liquids have a definite volume but no shape. Gas do not have definite shape nor volume.
The atmosphere is in fact mildly moist depending on the season. Water vapor is present in the atmosphere between .25% to .4%.
What percentage of the Earth's mass is the crust ?
1%
What are the 6 most common elements all living things share?
Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, Sulfur
What is snowmelt?
When it rains, the rivers rise, right? But what about when it snows–what happens then? Yes, the rivers still rise, but it may not happen until 6 months after it has snowed. If it is cold, precipitation will often fall as snow rather than as rain. If it stays cold, the snow could build up all winter and not begin to melt until spring. That snow is temporarily locked up "in storage" as ice and snow in the land alongside the river.
What is plant uptake?
The way in which a plant moves water upward defying the laws of gravity through a process of capillary action.
C02- Carbon Dioxide
The hydrosphere has water molecules that are present in the atmosphere as water vapor. The water in the hydrosphere is present in the geosphere by a process of infiltration/seepage. The hydrosphere is present in the biosphere due to plant uptake of water from groundwater storage.
How are Ice clouds made?
The clouds overhead are made of water, of course. Most of the clouds you see in the atmosphere are composed of tiny droplets of liquid water, but not all. Very high in the sky the air gets really cold, way below freezing. Clouds in this region are made of ice particles.
Why are rivers vital in the water cycle ?
Rivers are responsible for moving a lot of water off of the land and eventually back into the oceans. Rivers also lose water through their streambeds into the ground, and water from the ground seeps into rivers, so rivers interact with the ground. Plants, animals, and people interact with rivers, as all kinds of life seems to thrive around rivers and the land alongside them (riparian zones). In fact, if you look at a map of anywhere in the world, you'll see how people naturally build their cities next to rivers.
What is evotranspiration?
The process by which loss of water from the soil both by evaporation from the soil surface and by transpiration from the leaves of the plants growing on it.
Which layer of the atmosphere does most of the elements reside and most weather occurs?
Troposhere
How much of the total water on the planet is available for human consumption?
<1%
How has volcanic eruption played a massive role in Earth's history with Water as a molecule?
Volcanoes were one of the two primary ways H20 was introduced in Earth's atmosphere as steam.
What causes fog and dew?
Fog forms when air containing invisible water vapor encounters cooler temperatures (next to the ground) and some of the water vapor condenses out into liquid water droplets.
In the case of dew, water vapor in the air encounters a substance that has become cooler, such as the grass at night or even your glass of iced tea. The cooler temperatures causes the water vapor in the air to condense into liquid water—dew.
What is the 4th state of matter and how does it occur?