Week of Sept. 16th
Colorado Flood!
Explain the matter and energy transfer going on here!
Our Week:
Monday: 1. Lave Flow Report is due! 2. Continue working on Explaining the Earth Activity 3. WB p. 17; 1-14 due Friday
Tuesday: 1. WB p. 4-16 due 2. Continue Explaining the Earth Activity
Wednesday: 1. Finish Explaining the Earth
Thursday: 1. Explaining the Earth due in dropbox
Friday: Share Explaining Earth Projects
Retreating thunderstorm
Asperatus Cloud over New Zealand
The interactions that are happening in the picture of the Colorado Flood are happening between the Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Geosphere, and possibly the atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteThe Hydrosphere is interacting with the Biosphere because the water is affecting the people's lives, it might have killed animals in the area, and it has knocked over some trees.
The Hydrosphere is interacting with the Geosphere because all of the water has rushed on to the land and is making it very soggy and wet.
The interactions between the Atmosphere and Hydrosphere is that because of all of the water mixing with everything and being polluted it might've sent bad smells into the air
The interactions between the spheres and the Colorado Flood start with energy from the Sun.
ReplyDeleteWhen energy from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth (through water, land, and the atmosphere,) it causes the temperature to rise greatly. This causes excessive evaporation (atmosphere). Once the water evaporates it rains (hydrosphere). Since a great amount of water evaporated, a large amount of rain falls, causing flooding. Flooding can cause mudslides (geosphere).They also cause the loss of human and animals lives, as well as their habitats (biosphere). Plants are washed away as well (biosphere).
Water is transferred from bodies of water to the sky, and then back down to Earth as rain. Soil, vegetation, and are transferred by the the flood waters. Solar energy is transferred from the Sun to Earth, and from the Earth to the bodies of water (as heat.)