mr. gibson – room 213. unit 4(d) – the changing environment: impacts upon the “4 spheres”...
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U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4 Sphere Interactions” Read pages 35 – 37 Define the terms or constructs to the left. Create an MS-Word document, save it to my flash- drive in your folder and then uplink it through your assignments link in School- rack. It is worth 14 points and due next Tuesday Jan. 17th Weathering Erosion Ice Age(s) El Nino Greenhouse Effect CA0112: The Changing Environment – Lithosphere/Hydrosphere/Atmosphere Sea-floor “spreading” Tectonic PlatesTRANSCRIPT
Mr. Gibson – Room 213
Unit 4(d) – The Changing
Environment: Impacts Upon the “4 Spheres”
Objectives for this sub-unit:
1. NSCS-UCP.1: Systems and Order – that underlies plate tectonics & sea-floor spreading as it relates to the complex interactions amongst Earth’s “4-spheres”;
U4: The Environment: Energy, the Study [of], the changing Environment & the Resulting Impact Upon the “4-Spheres”
Objectives for this sub-unit:
2. NSCS-UCP.2: Evidence, models, & explanations [for] plate tectonics & sea-floor spreading as it relates to the complex interactions amongst Earth’s “4-spheres”;
Objectives for this sub-unit:
3. NSCS-B.4: Motions & Forces: [for] plate tectonics & sea-floor spreading as it relates to the complex interactions amongst Earth’s “4-spheres”;
Objectives for this sub-unit:
4. NSCS-B.6: Interactions of Energy & Matter -and- C.5: Matter, Energy, & Organization in Living Systems (biosphere): [as] it relates to the “sinusoidal wave” theory, parts of an “S” wave, and ultimately in the context of “Matter & Energy in the Ecosystem;
Objectives for this sub-unit:
5. NSCS-G.1: Science as a Human Endeavor -and- G.3: Historical Perspectives: [as] it relates to the fields of science that apply to the Changing Environment and how their collaborative models changed with increased knowledge via experimental field studies.
Objectives for this sub-unit:
6. Mastery of Objectives:a)80% success rate for
informal embedded drag n drop exercises for vocabulary;
b)80% success rate for informal embedded drag n drop exercises for graphic organizers;
c)75% success rate for formal daily CA-School-rack uplinked exercises; Class-marker quizzes; and Class-marker unit exam.
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”Read pages 35 – 37Define the terms or
constructs to the left.Create an MS-Word
document, save it to my flash-drive in your folder and then uplink it through your assignments link in School-rack. It is worth 14 points and due next Tuesday Jan. 17th
Weathering
Erosion
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
CA0112: The Changing Environment –
Lithosphere/Hydrosphere/Atmosphere
Sea-floor “spreading”
Tectonic Plates
Two of the scientific fields you learned about earlier – Geology and Seismology – study a particular set of areas [as] they relate to the Changing Environment.
Weathering
Erosion
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
U4: The Changing Environment – Lithosphere/Hydrosphere/Atmos
phereTheir interests center
around the Lithosphere’s multiple large moveable areas of the Earth’s crust which are called?
________________________
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
Erosion
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
U4: The Changing Environment – Lithosphere/Hydrosphere/Atmos
phereThe Lithosphere’s
multiple large moveable areas of the Earth’s crust called:
________________________Tectonic Plates
These plates “float” on “liquid-rock” , the same liquid-rock that pushes up between the plates.
The “pushing up” of the liquid-rock between the plates which moves them is known as?Sea-floor
“spreading”
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
Erosion
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
U4: The Changing Environment – Lithosphere/Hydrosphere/Atmos
phere
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
Erosion
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
U4: The Changing Environment – Lithosphere/Hydrosphere/Atmos
phereTectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
In the same regions of sea-floor spreading we find: volcanoes, earthquakes & mountains..
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
Erosion
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
U4: The Changing Environment – Lithosphere/Hydrosphere/Atmos
phere
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
Liquid-rock (magma) pushes upwards until it breaks the sea’s surface.
Once above the surface of the sea the liquid rock (magma) continues to rise; cooling & forming mountains and plateaus.
As mountains and plateaus extend upwards into the atmosphere – they interact with the atmosphere creating “weather” .
Ironically, these mountains & plateau land features are now exposed to the very same weather-storm patterns the y have created by their interference with the atmosphere .
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
U4: The Changing Environment – Lithosphere/Hydrosphere/Atmos
phere
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
The breaking down of the lithosphere’s rocks by this weather & related water is called?
Weathering
The broken down materials (lithosphere rocks) from weathering are then carried off by water. This is called??
Erosion
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
U4: The Changing Environment – Lithosphere/Hydrosphere/Atmos
phere
Just as ___________________ have moved about the Earth’s surface…
Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plates
… pushed about by ______-________ caused by
the upward flow of magma..
Sea-floor “spreading”
Sea-floor “spreading”
… the resulting mountains & plateaus have interacted with the Earth’s atmosphere thus breaking down the rocks – which is called__________________.
Weathering
Weathering
After the “weathering” of rocks has occurred – water then carries off the sediments and is called __________________.Erosion
Erosion
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Drag n Drop “Quick” review
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
The upwelling of liquid-rock or magma that pushes large portions of the Earth’s crust apart is called?
Weathering
Erosion
Sea-floor Spreading
Tectonic Plates
Drag n Drop “Quick” review
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
The large portions of the Earth’s crust that float & move about the Earth’s liquid rock are called?
Weathering
Erosion
Sea-floor Spreading
Tectonic Plates
Drag n Drop “Quick” review
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
The destruction or breaking down of the Earth’s lithosphere by lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere interactive storms, sun, and wind is called?
Weathering
Erosion
Sea-floor Spreading
Tectonic Plates
Drag n Drop “Quick” review
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
The carrying away of lithosphere sediments created by weathiering is called?
Weathering
Erosion
Sea-floor Spreading
Tectonic Plates
Drag n Drop “Quick” review
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Complete the graphic organizer that shows the relationship between the four terms studied so far…
Weathering
Erosion
Sea-floor Spreading
Tectonic Plates
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
Sea-floor “spreading”
Weathering
Just as the shifting/changing tectonic plates have impacted the “lithosphere”
Erosion
Erosion
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Shifting/changing tectonic plates of the “lithosphere” impact the hydrosphere too.
lithosphere
hydrosphere
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
Sea-floor “spreading”
Weathering
Erosion
Erosion
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
Shifting/changing tectonic plates of the “lithosphere” impact the hydrosphere too.
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
Sea-floor “spreading”
Weathering
Erosion
Erosion
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
A long period of global cooling during which large masses of ice advance down from the Earth’s two poles is called?
Ice Age(s)
Greenhouse Effect
Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
Sea-floor “spreading”
Weathering
Erosion
Erosion
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
A warm water, nutrient-poor, ocean current that flows southward along South America’s coast-line that becomes prolonged for months is?
Ice Age(s)
El NinoIce Age(s)
Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
Sea-floor “spreading”
Weathering
Erosion
Erosion
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
A set of atmospheric gases from volcanoes and living organisms that trap the sun’s radiation thus heating up the atmosphere is called?
Ice Age(s)
El NinoIce Age(s)
El NinoGreenhouse
Effect
Tectonic Plates
Tectonic Plates
Sea-floor “spreading”
Sea-floor “spreading”
Weathering
Erosion
Erosion
U4(d): The Changing Environment – “4
Sphere Interactions”
Weathering
A set of atmospheric gases from volcanoes and living organisms that trap the sun’s radiation thus heating up the atmosphere is called?
Ice Age(s)
El Nino
Greenhouse Effect
A warm water, nutrient-poor, ocean current that flows southward along South America’s coast-line that becomes prolonged for months is?
A long period of global cooling during which large masses of ice advance down from the Earth’s two poles is called?