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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 – 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 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/Atmosphere Their 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/Atmosphere The 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/Atmosphere 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/Atmosphere Tectonic 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/Atmosphere 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/Atmosphere 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/Atmosphere Just as ___________________ have moved about the Earth’s surface… Tectonic Plates … pushed about by ______-________ caused by the upward flow of magma.. Sea-floor “spreading” … the resulting mountains & plateaus have interacted with the Earth’s atmosphere thus breaking down the rocks – which is called__________________. Weathering After the “weathering” of rocks has occurred – water then carries off the sediments and is called __________________. 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 Sea-floor “spreading” Weathering Just as the shifting/changing tectonic plates have impacted the “lithosphere” 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 Sea-floor “spreading” Weathering 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 Sea-floor “spreading” Weathering 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 Sea-floor “spreading” Weathering 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 Nino Ice Age(s)

Tectonic Plates Sea-floor “spreading” Weathering 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 Ice Age(s) El Nino Greenhouse Effect

Tectonic Plates Sea-floor “spreading” Weathering 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?