Vocabulary
The process by which particles or pollutants settle onto surfaces.
What is deposition?
Which surface has a higher albedo: Snow-covered glacier or a dark asphalt road?
Show-covered glacier
True or False: Graphs can be examples of computational representations.
What is true?
The gases that surround Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
What is biology?
Tiny solid or liquid particles suspended in the air, often produced by combustion, industrial processes, or natural events.
What is particulate matter?
What is hotter?
True or False:The process of evaporation is a computational representation.
What is false?
All life on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
What does the "geo" in biogeochemistry represent?
What is geology?
The release of substances, such as gases or particles, into the atmosphere from a specific source.
What are emissions?
High or low albedo? White t-shirt
What is high albedo?
True or False: A 3-D object can be a computational representation.
What is false?
Lucky!
You just got some free points.
What is the name of the cycle that moves carbon through air, water and land?
What is the carbon cycle?
Resulting from the influence of human activities.
High or low albedo? Dark purple T-shirt
What is low albedo?
You are lucky!
And you got some free points.
All the rocks on Earth.
What is the geosphere?
The movement of elements like carbon through Earth's living and non-living systems?
What is a biogeochemical cycle?
The amount of time a molecule spends in any of Earth’s reservoirs.
What is residence time?
High or low albedo? The ocean.
What is low albedo?
True or False: A mind map or can be a computational representation.
What is true?
All the water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
How does burning fossil fuels affect the carbon cycle?
It releases stored carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.