1. Bellringer Date: September 8 & 9, 2015 Focus: Hydrologic Cycle & Earth’s Spheres Bellringer: In your journals, answer the following questions. 1) Why is it important for a geographer to study the solar system? 2) How does the Earth-Sun relationship affect the climate different regions of the world? 3) DEFINE: Erosion, Hydrologic Cycle in your journals. *You may use your electronic device

2. Earth’s Spheres & Hydrologic Cycle ©2012, TESCCC

3. What happened here? ©2012, TESCCC

8. Real World Application How are WE affected by natural disasters? ©2012, TESCCC

9. Watch Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n73qtEoj P_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n73qtEoj P_Y ©2012, TESCCC

10. Earth’s Spheres - VOCAB Atmosphere: located right above the Earth’s surface and includes layers of gases (clouds, air pollution, sand storms, hurricanes, etc.) It protects us by absorbing solar radiation. Biosphere: life on land, rivers and oceans (Biomes) deserts, forests, grasslands Hydrosphere: water in liquid and solid state (oceans, glaciers, snow, lakes, rivers, etc.) Lithosphere: solids of the Earth (rocks, soils, landforms, etc.) ©2012, TESCCC

12. Plate Tectonics: View direction of the arrows showing movement of the plates. What can you deduce from this image? ©2012, TESCCC

13. Converging Consists of two types of plate boundaries… *Continental-continental (mountains) *Oceanic-oceanic (volcanic mountains and ocean trenches) Oceanic-oceanic plates are heavy, and move under the lighter continental plate. This in turns causes subduction. All convergent plates experience landslides and volcanic mudslides ©2012, TESCCC

14. Subduction Plates moving underneath each other The subducted crust is always oceanic while the overriding crust may or may not be oceanic. Subduction zones are often noted for their high rates of volcanism, earthquakes and mountain building, also known as orogenesis. ©2012, TESCCC

15. Divergent Plates moving apart from each other On land, this is called a rift valley, and in the ocean it is called mid-oceanic ridge Block-vaulted and volcanoes form here (When the continental crust fractures, large blocks of crust can drop into the space that opens up) Earthquakes are experienced here ©2012, TESCCC

16. Transform faulting Plates moving side by side Produces earthquakes Relative motion is predominantly horizontal Transform faults end abruptly and are connected on both ends to other faults, ridges, or subduction zones While most transform faults are hidden in the deep oceans where they form a series of short zigzags accommodating seafloor spreading, the best-known (and most destructive) are those on land at the margins of tectonic plates ©2012, TESCCC

17. Lithosphere Erosion: Erosion occurs when weathered material is moved by the action of wind, water, ice, or even gravity. ©2012, TESCCC

18. Lithosphere Solids of Planet Earth ©2012, TESCCC

19. ATMOSPHERE Hurricanes Tornadoes Thunderstorms Typhoons Monsoons ©2012, TESCCC

20. BIOSPHERE Human life Animal life Plant life ©2012, TESCCC

21. Hydrologic Cycle The complete cycle through which water passes, from the oceans, through the atmosphere, to the land, and back to the ocean. Also known as water cycle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaDkph9 yQBs ©2012, TESCCC