...Landforms Cody Carns GEO 101—Earth Science Colorado State University—Global Campus Dr. Sue Finstick December 23, 2013 Landforms Without the process of the hydrologic cycle, there would be no such thing as life. We can’t survive without water, and this is the specific way we are able to understand how water moves in the world. The hydrologic cycle is the process that transports water between the sky, land and oceans all driven by the sun’s energy. The purpose of this paper is to explain the cycle, and relate it to the particular region of my residence in Colorado, but also provide an insight to how it differs from something such as a desert landscape. Having the benefit of being exposed to many different climates through out my short adventures, it’s fascinating to see the effect of the water cycle in multiple regions. Hydrologic Cycle To better understand the water cycle, we need to look at the reservoirs where the water is stored. These can come in many different forms such as oceans, glaciers, icecaps as well as the atmosphere. When talking about the water, it is crucial to remember we are talking about the chemical substance H2O, which include liquid, solid, and gaseous form (NESTA, 2008). The climate changes produce many different variations in the hydrologic cycle, and the different routes the water takes between these reservoirs as mentioned are called the pathways or flows. The main ways of travel between the various types of reservoirs are evaporation...
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...ISP 203A Concept Redesign Extra Credit Step 1: Hydrologic Cycle Step 2: 1. Third Grade Student = Bill Nye Episode 47 (The Water Cycle) 2. Grand/parent or other non expert = NASA’s video explaining the water cycle 3. A professional = "Water Vapor, the Hydrological Cycle, and Climate Change" by Isaac M. Held, Senior Research Scientist, head of Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics Group, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA (Princeton, NJ); Lecturer with rank of Professor in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University. (Lecture presented by Harvard University) Step 3: Teaching the hydrologic cycle, also known as the “water cycle” can be very simple to very complicated. I know when I was in grade school I learned the water cycle mainly from my science teacher, and from these posters that were always posted up around the room. As I got older, and my mom became an elementary teacher, I got ahold of a few of these posters. Me being interested in science and teaching took these home and tried to teach the material to anyone who was willing to listen. My mom has many stories of myself trying to teach her and my grandma the water cycle, solar system, etc. One thing I noticed is that my mom understood everything perfectly, while my grandmother didn’t nor did she care. This experience lead me to come up with what mediums to use to teach a third grade student, a grandparent...
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...Recent Work on Business Cycles in Historical Perspective: Review of Theories and Evidence ABSTRACT This survey outlines the evolution of thought leading to the recent developments in the study of business cycles. The subject is almost coextensive with short-term inacrodynamics and has a large interface with economics of growth, money, inflation, and expectations. The coverage is +-)y.Pry' kg4h v4r 4 ii4 c,1 ,i4 4 tT The paper first summarizes the "stylized facts" that ought to be explained by the theory. This part discusses the varying dimensions of business cycles; their timing, amplitude, and diffusion features; some international aspects; and recent changes. The next part is a review of the literature on "self-sustaining" cycles. It notes some of the older theories and proceeds to more recent models driven by changes in investment, credit, and price-cost-profit relations. These models are mainly endogenous and deterministic. Exogenous factors and stochastic elements gain importance in the part on the modern theories of cyclical response to monetary and real disturbances. The early monetarist interpretations of the cycle are followed by the newer equilibrium models with price misperceptions and intertemporal substitution of labor. Monetary shocks continue to be used but the emphasis shifts from nominal demand changes and lagged price adjustments to informational lags and supply reactions. Various problems arise, revealed by intensive testing and criticisms...
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...Landforms Hydrologic Cycle The field of Hydrology is primarily concerned with how water falls from the atmosphere, to the Earth; rolls downhill via gravity eventually out to the ocean and then back up into the atmosphere starting all over again. Biological processes of animals and plants have evolved over millions of years to adapt to, and depend on, when the right amount of water is available (Lutgens & Tarbuck, 2014, p. 83). The hydrologic cycle goes through many processes; This continuous cycle of water releases up into the air, forms into a cloud, rains down to the Earth and then evaporates again, repeating this continuous process. Some amount of groundwater also releases back into the atmosphere through a process called transpiration which is evaporation of water from plants. The remaining water on the earth's surface is runoff, which finds its place in the lakes, streams and rivers, which eventually enters the oceans, starting the repetition of the hydrologic cycle. (Tallman, 2011). In Colorado, all of these concepts of the water cycle apply to the Colorado River Basin. Most of the storms that bring moisture into Colorado come from the Pacific Ocean and travel east through the atmosphere. Because of the altitude in the Rocky Mountains this moist air results in huge amounts of snow on the western slope. The Colorado River Basin is often called a snowmelt dominated system because this snow often sits in a deep snowpack until the spring when the temperature raises...
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...... I dream of a city ... a city full of people ... a crowded city ... a city with lots of bad people, and a little number of good people ... a city full of mosque ... people call it "The City of Mosque" ... in the dawn of winter if you wake up, You will hear the sound of Azan, from all the mosques from the city. ... Sorry, what did you say? you know a city like this one, the one exactly like I just said ... he he :) no my dear, you may not know this city, because in this city there are "cycles" ... lots and lots of cycles ... I want to call it "The City of Cycles", because in here everyone uses cycle for transport. You want to go in long distance or short distance, the city people use cycle. You wondering why cycle, because this city people prefer it, ... why, I don’t know :( ... when I ask one of them, "why do you ride cycle?" he first look at me, examine me if I am a stupid reporter from TV want tomake a news on him, then he said, "are you new in this city? Cycle is the Trademark of this city. Didn't you notice it?" I say, "Yeah! I noticed ... That's why I was asking ... is there any reason?" The man sighed and paddled on his way. Then I found a girl, she stopped and asked if I wanted a ride? I nodded. She was on the way to her office, she told me an amazing story, a story of sorrow, cough, dust and worst of'em all, a GHOST. YES, believe it or not, there was a ghost in the city. People called it "The Deadly One". Because it is a crowded city, when people came out from...
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...Water impacts The hydrologic cycle describes the movement of water from one reservoir to another in the hydrosphere. According to figure 11.1 in chapter 11 of our book the hydrologic cycle works like this: First solar energy causes water to evaporate from the ocean, moving water into the atmosphere. Second the evaporated water from the ocean condenses into the clouds. Third the water collected in the clouds will fall back to land or to the ocean aw precipitation, either, rain, hail, or snow. Fourth some of the water returns back to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration. Fifth some of the water infiltrates the ground, where it joins the ground water reservoir and may eventually be locked up in the lithosphere in the form of hydrous minerals. Lastly some if the moisture flows back to the sea as surface run-off, while a small amount is captured by the biosphere. The ground reservoir is just one of many places that water can be kept. The largest reservoir for water is the oceans, which holds 97.5 percent of Earth’s water. Some of the other reservoirs include the atmosphere, lakes, rivers, soils, glaciers, and snowfields. What causes the hydrologic cycle to continue from day to day? The answer would be the sun, because the sun provides the energy needed for evaporation. The reason for the water cycle is so that the Earth does not go dry and that there is continuous water flow every day, one way or...
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...the classes' contribution to the carbon cycle during the term? Consider the differences between the two in terms of methods of travel, and use of facilities, energy, and other resources. Remember to focus on the impact to the carbon cycle. Part 2) Complete the ecological footprint quiz at the following link: http://myfootprint.org/en/visitor_information and report your results. What did you learn about you and your family's impact on the environment? • Part 1) We decrease the distribution to the carbon cycle by being in online classes, because the burning of fossil fuels increase the amount of CO2 being distributed into the air. Being in online classes keeps one indoors to do their classwork and participate. • Part 2) My carbon footprint is 59.47, My food footprint is 76.46, My housing footprint is 34.17, My goods and services footprint is 21.15. If everyone in the planet lived my lifestyle, we would need 4.95 earths. After doing this quiz, it showed me that I need to start recycling a little more and buying products that would be better for me and the environment specially when it comes to the foods I eat, I need to eat more healthier and spend less on fast food items which is something me and my family frequent every weekend. I did not know just the little things I do could effect the environment so much. Exercise 2. Using ONE ecosystem from the list below, explain the role of the carbon, hydrologic, phosphorus, and nitrogen cycles in this ecosystem. Choose from a "normal":...
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...Long Day’s Journey into Night: The Perpetual Cycles within O’Neill’s Play O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956, 2002) is a depiction of the Tyrone family and the ongoing cycle of events that occur within the span of one single day in their life. At first glance, patriarch James, his wife Mary, and adult sons Jamie and Edmund, appear to be the average family in the year 1912, until one looks further and finds that each appears to be in their own version of purgatory, stuck in a repetition of events and behaviors that are both non-productive, as well as destructive. Ultimately, these result in their being condemned to continually relive the worst events in their life with their most unflattering characteristics, time and time again. Yet, in doing so, they not only self-sabotage, but sabotage each other and prevent any member of the family from realizing any genuine relief or finding any true resolution amidst this perpetual cycle, which is essentially foreshadowed by the title, itself. Therefore, from the ongoing cycle of denial and blame, to anger and guilt, to drug use and abuse, Long Day’s Journey into Night is a cynical story that illustrates the seemingly infinite cycles that depict the perpetual struggles that occur within one family over the course of an average day as the light gives way to darkness. As such, the paragraphs that follow elaborate on some of the most prominent cycles within the story, beginning with a discussion of the Tyrone family’s...
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...Q3 Impacts of climate change on Australian water resources The earth has a very perfect hydrologic cycle. It maintains water balance one the earth, promotes the prosperity of earth. However, the human activities in recent decades has largely disturb the hydrological cycle. Between 1990 and 2000, Australia lost an average of 325,900 hectares of forest per year. Australia has about 0.19% deforestation rate (mongabay, 2012). Due to the colonization and urbanization, in 200 years, Australia has lost 25% rainforest, 45% of open forest, 32% woodland forest and 30% of malle forest in 200 years (Forestnetwork, 2003). The situation has improved a lot in recent years as the government release many new policies to protect the forest resources. Forest can transport large amount of water into the atmosphere by plant transpiration. It replenishes the clouds and makes the rainfall. The rainfall brings water to the earth surface to refill ground water and irrigate the soils. It maintains earth water balance. However cutting forests can break this balance causes less rainfall, dry land and turns the forest into desert (WWF, 2015). Another big concern is the CO2 emission. Plants can mitigate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions and release oxygen. The main purpose to cutting forest is burn the fuel. This process produces large amount of greenhouse gases. Deforestation makes the greenhouse effect worse. Australia are the highest greenhouse gas polluters, per-person, among the organization...
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...The Water Cycle BY Anissa Chambers Student ID: L23254780 Presented to Dr. Travis Bradshaw In partial fulfillment of the requirements of Elements of Earth Science PHSC 210 Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Lynchburg, VA July 15, 2013 The Water Cycle or the hydrologic cycle is an amazing system that God has put in place to maintain the of the earth’s most important resource, water. There is nothing on earth that does not require water to survive in some way or fashion and without it there would be no life on earth. You will find water “in the oceans, glaciers, rivers, lakes, air, soil, and living tissue,” and all of these “reservoirs” makes up the Earth’s hydrosphere. As you study this natural system you cannot help but see the hand of a powerful and creative God. The hydrologic cycle is a process that is constantly recycling the Earth’s water supply. This cycle consist of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and then infiltration. The water cycle is powered by solar energy, or controlled by the sun. The sun produces heat which causes the water from the oceans, lakes, rivers etc. to warm and evaporate. This evaporation is when water is heated to the point that it turns into a water vapor. The water vapor rises and cools which is called condensation, and as more and more water vapors cool it forms clouds. As the water droplets that are forming the clouds become larger and larger until the atmosphere cannot hold them up any longer and the fall to the ground as...
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...Biotic Component Paper Biotic Components Paper In this paper I will conduct research on the Bolsa Chica Wetlands that are located in an area of lowlands in Orange County California, adjacent to the city of Huntington Beach. The area is managed by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), whose mission is to” protect and enhance; migratory shorebird, seabird, waterfowl overwintering habitat; protect natural habitat for shorebirds and seabirds; protect nesting and foraging conditions for threatened or endangered species” The Bolsa Chica Conservancy (BCC) is a local volunteer organization that assists in maintaining the area. Its goals are to ensure the preservation, restoration, and enhancement of the area (2010). This dynamic, yet fragile, ecosystem has been preserved since 1965, flourishing under diligent and careful management. Coastal ecosystems include marshes, coastal waters, estuaries, and lands located at the lower end of drainage basins, where rivers and streams meet the sea or ocean (United States FWS, 2010). These complex ecosystems are composed of biotic communities; plants, animals, birds, and microbes, and the abiotic community; nonliving, chemical, and physical. According to Wright (2008) the type of biotic community found in a given area, is largely determined by the abiotic factors, such as the amount of water, climate, the salinity, or type of soil. Bolsa Chica has a wealth of plant and animal species including Sea Lettuce, Pickleweed...
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...Coreena Martinez ENV/310 Hydrological Cycle Elizabeth Stevens February 9, 2015 Hydrological Cycle What is the water cycle? “The water cycle describes the existence and movement of water on, in, and above the Earth. Earth’s water is always in movement and is always changing states, from liquid to vapor to ice and back again. The water cycle has been working for billions of years and all life on Earth depends on it continuing to work; the Earth would be a pretty stale place without it” (USGS). The water cycle does not have a starting point, but since most of Earth’s water comes from the oceans where it will begin. “The sun, which drives the water cycle, heats water in the oceans. Some of it evaporates as vapor into the air; a relatively smaller amount of moisture is added as ice and snow sublimate directly from the solid state into vapor. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmosphere, along with water from evapotranspiration, which is water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil. The vapor rises into the air where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into clouds. Air currents move clouds around the globe, and cloud particles collide, grow, and fall out of the sky as precipitation. Some precipitation falls as snow and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, which can store frozen water for thousands of years. Snowpacks in warmer climates often thaw and melt when spring arrives, and the melted water flows overland as snowmelt. Most precipitation...
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...chemical compositions that make up organisms and connect them together. Matter takes up space and has a mass all of its own. It will cycle between the living and non-living components of any ecosystem and will continue to be recycled over and over again. It is because of these biogeochemical cycles that the ecosystems stay balanced and organisms stay alive. These cycles contain food, water, air as well as their surroundings (Miller and Hackett, 2012). There are four main cycles: water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous. With all of these systems working together, matter is able to be recycled with the help of solar energy. The first cycle is the water or hydrologic cycle. This is the cycle that is most familiar because it is often taught in subjects such as biology and chemistry. The water cycle recycles the Earth’s fixed supply of water (Miller and Hackett, 2012). A good portion of the earth’s water is in the oceans. The sun causes the water to evaporate and as the vapor cools, it turns into droplets. When these droplets become big enough, they return to the earth and run along its surface until they reach a water source such as a river or stream. These sources will carry the runoff back to an ocean or lake. Water enters plants through their roots and the water cycle begins all over again. The next cycle is the carbon cycle. Carbon is the main ingredient of organic compounds as it is found in the...
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...|Housing development decreased by 10-15% | | • Purpose The purpose of this lab is to answer the question”If current human development does not change, will groundwater sustainability be affected? “ • Introduction In this lab groundwater was measured from the 100s to 2000s. Humans actions, like irrigation, alter the regular flow of water. All water that that we use has to come from somewhere human activities affect the quantity and how fast the water moves • Hypothesis/Predicted Outcome • A large amount of our food is produced as a result of irrigation. So if groundwater use continues at the current rate food production could be reduced. • Methods Computer simulation which included observing the hydrologic cycle over hundreds of years. This procedure measured changes in saltwater intrusion, large forest, farming , industrial development and population. • Results/Outcome o It has been found that If current human development does not change, groundwater sustainability will be affected. •...
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...warming or climate change. A recent review paper, put together by both solar and climate scientists, details these studies: Solar Influences on Climate. Their bottom line: though the Sun may play some small role, "it is nevertheless much smaller than the estimated radiative forcing due to anthropogenic changes." That is, human activities are the primary factor in global climate change. Solar irradiance changes have been measured reliably by satellites for only 30 years. These precise observations show changes of a few tenths of a percent that depend on the level of activity in the 11-year solar cycle. Changes over longer periods must be inferred from other sources. Estimates of earlier variations are important for calibrating the climate models. While a component of recent global climate change may have been caused by the increased solar activity of the last solar cycle, that...
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