unit 2: the earth system atmosphere, hydrosphere & geosphere
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Unit 2: The Earth SystemUnit 2: The Earth System
Atmosphere, Hydrosphere & Atmosphere, Hydrosphere & GeosphereGeosphere
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Function, Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere
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Functions• Air we breath, plants use in photosynthesis• Filters solar energy, blocking much of harmful
UV wavelengths• Protects us from “space junk”• Allows for a natural greenhouse effect keeping
earth warm enough for liquid water and life• Cycles moisture and heat throughout earth in
moving air systems providing weather patterns and the water cycle
• weathers and shapes earth’s surface, allowing the rock cycle
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Composition of Today’s Atmosphere
• Variable components:• Water (0-4%)• Dust, ozone, pollution
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Compare to neighbors
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Structure of Atmosphere
– Gas molecules thin with altitude
– What holds them near earth’s surface?
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Atmosphere blends to Exosphere
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Heating the Atmosphere
• Troposphere=heated by terrestrial radiation
• Stratosphere& Mesosphere=absorption and re-radiation of shortwave radiation in the ozone layer
• Thermosphere=absorption and re-radiation of shortwave radiation by oxygen
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Evolution of the Atmosphere
1. Loss of original atmosphere due to solar wind
2. Formation of early atmosphere by outgassing
3. Evolution of atmosphere by interactions with biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere
4. Today’s atmosphere5. Human’s effect on today’s atmosphere
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Solar wind• 1 million tons of matter out into space
every second!
• 95% protons or H+ ions, plasma state
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Solar wind is different than earth wind
• Not as dense• Plasma vs.
gas
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Solar Wind wipes early atmosphere away
• When sun first began to shine, early atmosphere in inner solar system blown out past the asteroid belt where it was cooler
• Only dense materials with very high melting points able to remain (rocky, metallic elements)
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Outgassing• Gases from volcanoes
– water vapor (H2O), – carbon monoxide (CO), – carbon dioxide (CO2), – hydrochloric acid (HCl), – methane (CH4), – ammonia (NH3), – nitrogen (N2),– sulfur gases. – no free oxygen
• Additions to atmosphere: perhaps from comets?
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Evidence for composition of early atmosphere
• Today’s volcanic eruptions• Rocks from early earth history• Early organisms are anaerobic (cannot survive in
O2)
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Banded Iron Formation
• not present in rocks younger than 1.8 - 2.5 billions of years ago, when oxygen starting becoming more abundant.
• Alternating layers of magnetite, hematite (iron oxide) and silica-rich minerals
• Struggle between
oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor
environment
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The Oxygen explosion
• The amount of oxygen increased due to early life forms, such as cyanobacteria that produce oxygen as a waste product
• Water vapor split by incoming solar radiation into hydrogen and oxygen, hydrogen escapes
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Role of the Oceans
• Environment for early life
• Absorption of carbon dioxide and other toxic gases
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Consequences of Oxygen Build-up
• Development of ozone (O3) layer which absorbs harmful UV radiation and eventaully allowed life on land
• End of banded iron formations which only formed in low O2
• Oxygen breathing organisms evolved
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Composition, function, structure of Hydrosphere
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Function & Significance of Hydrosphere
• Necessary for the evolution and the abundance of life
• Helps circulate heat
• Absorbs and facilitates the storage of carbon dioxide allowing earth to develop and maintain low CO2 levels
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Structure and Composition
• All water on earth recycles between reservoirs
• Most freshwater is in the ground, some in lakes and rivers, atmosphere
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Water Cycle
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Water: changes of state
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Evolution of the Hydrosphere1. Outgassing (& perhaps comets) adds
water vapor to atmosphere2. Saturated atmosphere causes great
rains3. Great rains cool surface and collect in
massive freshwater ocean4. Landmasses weather and running water
carries dissolved material (salts) to the ocean
5. Water cycle, driven by sun, continues to cycle water today
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Ocean getting salty
• Weathering of rocks
• Undersea volcanoes and vents
• Balance of salt, not getting saltier
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Composition, Structure, & Function of Geosphere
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Function & Significance of Geosphere
• Storage of most of earth’s matter• Volcanic activity responsible for
atmosphere, climate changes, new crust• Plate movements causing crust to be
recycled including elements that accumulate such as carbon and “salt”
• Provides varied topography on which both dry and wet land creatures dwell
• Weathers to form soil from which land plants derive many nutrients
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Evolution of Geosphere1. Solid rock, metal and ice accrete to form
protoplanet from solar nebula
2. Gravitational compression & impacts cause early earth to become molten
3. Differentiation based on density formed layers out of molten earth, gasses escaped.
4. Great collision causes large chunk of crustal rock to rip away & form moon. Gravity pulls both back into molten spheres
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Earth’s Layered Structure
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Evolution of Geosphere cont.
5. Crust cools but heat from within causes eruptions of rock and gas to continue, also causes plates to shift
6. Plate collisions and volcanic activity create landmasses above sea level
7. Heat within drives plate motions causing landmasses to shift and rocks to recycle
8. Interaction between weathering and uplift create today’s landscape
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Plate Tectonics
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Rock Cycle
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What is the geopshere made of?
• Common elements
• Elements make up minerals
• Rocks are made of minerals
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3 main types of rocks
• Based on formation• Igneous=• Sedimentary=• Metamorphic=• Common
characteristics of each
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Rodinia
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Gondwana
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Brr…
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Oceans begin to close
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Pangea is forming, Appalachians
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Greatest extinction (99%) of all time!
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Pangea breaks up
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Major Extinction
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Himalayas form
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Most recent Ice age
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Today
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• http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html Great site to get overview of events in each time period and dates
• http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm (good for geology and climate)
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ice/chill.html ice ages