Sun Driven Hydrologic Cycle

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The troposphere is

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Where air and water vapor is. It is where we breath from the surface to 10 kilometers up

Question 1

What is the hydrologic cycle?

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Is the system by which water molecules travel at ,above, and below earth’s surface.

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Stratosphere is

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Extends above the troposphere from 10 k to 50 k ozone is here and it is here that radiation energy is absorbed

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Mesosphere is

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Above the stratosphere to 80 kilometers up this is where meteoroids burn up to create what we call meteors

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Thermosphere

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This is the top layer of atmosphere and goes out into space

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Ozone layer

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Blocks out a significant amount of uv radiation by absorption before reaching the surface

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Condensation of water vapor into clouds and precipitation

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Is basis for our weather

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Warm air

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Supports greater amounts of water vapor than cold air

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The circulation of air is

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Caused around the planet by the corriolis effect

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Erosion

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Weathering of and removal of rock into sediment by chemical and mechanical means

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Water

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Controls both the processes of weathering and land removal with the aid of temperature

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Mechanical weathering

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The breakdown of rock to sediment through physical means.

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Primary means of mechanical weathering

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The freezing and thawing of ice

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Frost wedging

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The physical means of mechanical weathering of rock expansion by ice.

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Salt weathering

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Can chemically weather rock into sediment.

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Chemical weathering

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Is destruction of rocks through chemical reactions that dissolve the minerals or convert them into other minerals

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Three form of chemical weathering

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Dissolution oxidation hydrolysis

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Hydrolysis is

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Chemical transition of of one mineral to another catalyzed by the addition of hydroxyl ions

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Dissolution

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acidic waters rest with minerals to remove positive and negative ions from minerals and make them aqueous

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Oxidation

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Occurs when free ions of oxygen join with iron or magnesium rich minerals to create new minerals like hematite and limonite

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Mass wasting is

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Landslides, avalanches, debris flows ,Lahars, slumping , and creep

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Creep

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Most damaging to US slow slow slow process occurs through wetting , drying, or freezing and thawing

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Flows

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Occurs when water , air is added to soil or sediment it then flow s down hill earthquakes can make quicksand like entity when it pushes grains apart in damp soil

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Head ward erosion

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soft layer gives way to hard layer above causing collapse

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Streams

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Shape land by causing sedimental layers to form deltas parabola shaped profile flooding is naturally occurring

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Ground water

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Delicate resource hard to get out slow to refill easily contaminated

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Millankovitch cycles

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The pattern of climate change is related to the slight changes in earths orbital patterns occurring in three ways that affect the sunlight distribution that earth gets Ellipticitysoft layer gives way to hard layer above causing collapse eccentricity