ap environmental study session 2 and 3 tuesday march 22, 2011
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AP Environmental Study Session 2 and 3
Tuesday March 22, 2011
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Rock Cycle
YouTube Video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-h7G0h9Ip0&NR=1
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Types of Rock
• Define– Igneous– Sedimentary– Metamorphic
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Soil
• The crucial link between biotic and abiotic– What is found in soil?
• 3 constituents in differing percentages (%):– Clay• Smallest particle, <.002mm
– Silt• .002 - .05mm
– Sand• Largest particle, .05 – 2.0mm
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pH and Soil
• pH Scale
• Acidic vs. Alkalinity
• Most soils are pH 4 – 8
• Importance of pH?– pH determines the availability of nutrients in the soil
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Where does soil come from?• Weathering– Physical / Mechanical• Don’t change chem of the rocks• Wind and water
– Chemical• Do change chem of the rocks• Interactions between atmosphere, water, and rocks
– Biological• Activities by living organisms
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Soil Layers
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Human Caused Soil Problems
• Farming– Monoculture– Crop Rotation– Green Revolution– Salinization– Erosion – Dust Bowl
• Add nutrients to the soil in the form of fertilizers– What is all in fertilizers?
• To grow food we need arable land– Land we can grow stuff in
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Soil Conservation• Recent efforts have been made to naturally
increase the productivity of farms via:– Using natural fertilizer….AKA ________– Modify tilling to not break-up the land as much to
decrease erosion– Create buffer zones using trees to decrease wind
erosion• Legislation– 1977: Soil and Water Conservation Ace– 1985: Food Security Act
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Moving from the Lithosphere to the Atmosphere
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Atmosphere
• Define• What’s in it?– Oxygen (21%)– Water Vapor– Nitrogen (78%)– Carbon Dioxide (.037%)– Argon (.9%)– Layers
• What layer do we live in?– Troposphere (surface - 20km)
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Layers of the Atmosphere
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Layers of the Atmosphere• Troposphere– Where all weather occurs– Contains all water vapor and clouds– Well mixed and temp decreases as altitude increases
• Tropopause– Buffer zone between the troposphere and the
stratosphere– Temp begins to increases as altitude increases
• Stratosphere– 20km – 50km– Gases not mixed, arranged according to density– Temp increases as altitude increases – due to Ozone layer
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Greenhouse Effect
• Occurs primarily in the Troposphere
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC0VeBPasgQ&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxUK2TizQ4g&feature=related
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CO2 Trend
• Increasing, Graph
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Ozone and why its important
• Found at the top of the stratosphere
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE3y1Gj2dec
• Ozone Depletion– http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=I1wrEvc2URE&feature=related
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CFC’s Trend
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Layers of the Atmosphere
• Mesosphere– 50km – 80km above the surface– Layer where meteors typically burn up
• Thermosphere / Ionosphere– 80km – 110km above the surface– Layer where auroras occur, space shuttles orbit,
and where radio waves reflect– Energy from the solar winds are absorbed here
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Aurora - Ionosphere
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJBrMXSn-hU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaSFAbATPvk&feature=related
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Connecting Atmosphere and Climate
• Climate is created by the atmosphere• Weather is the daily fluctuation of:– Temperature– Sunlight– Air pressure– Winds– humidity
• Then what is climate and who studies it?** The climate and weather is caused by the unequal
heating of the Earth’s atmosphere by the sun**
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3 reasons Earth is unevenly heated
• More rays strike the Equator than anywhere else• Tilt of the axis causes regions to receive more of
less sunlight• Surface is rotating faster at the equator than at
the poles– Causes the Coriolis Effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHrapzHPCSA&feature=related
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Coriolis Effect
• Winds in the Northern Hemisphere are deflected to the right
• Winds in the South Hemisphere are deflected to the left
• Caused by the Earth moving faster at the Equator than at the poles