Climate Change Flashcards
water cycle
- Evaporation
2.Sublimation
3.Condensation
4.Precipitation
5.Subsurface flow
6.Surface runoff
7.ice/snowmelt
8.Streamflow
evaporation
liquid → water vapor (ex. Result of water boiling)
sublimation
ice → vapor (smoke in the fridge)
condensation
water vapor → liquid (water on a cold water bottle, water bottle sweating)
precipitation
falls from sky (rain, snow, hail)
Subsurface flow
water flowing underground
Surface runoff
rain → stream, lake → ocean
ice/snowmelt
melting snow/ice…goes underground
Streamflow
streams flowing from high elevation to low elevation
Carbon cycle
-Cellular respiration and photosynthesis(autotrophs):
1.Take in Co2
2.Sequester (store) it
3. Make sugar
- Cellular Respiration(heterotrophs):
1.eat sugar
2.exhale Co2
Cellular Respiration
releasing carbon after eating…pooping*
Greenhouse Effect
-Co2
-Water
-Methane
greenhouse effect importance
-Greenhouse effect is important because it keeps the earth at a livable heat
-Human enhanced greenhouse is bad because it creates more chemicals in the atmosphere making the earth hotter
climate
-long term, predictable
-Ex; “winter is cold”
Weather
-short term
-ex; “rain tomorrow