BIOLOGY 287 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Radioactive Decay, Hydrosphere, Geosphere
22 Sep 2014
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Rain, snow sustain life and come from the ocean, water breaks down rocks to form soil, allows rivers to carry sediment into ocean, evaporation and condensation into rainfall transfer heat from ocean to atmosphere, thus regulating temperature at earth"s surface: cryosphere, all are linked by the flow of water and the recycling of carbon: Volcanic activity and geological processes: earth systems driven by two power plants (external and internal), solar radiation, radioactive decay from the sun (external) (internal energy, many elements, like hydrogen, have 2+ naturally occurring isotopes, isotopes of same element differ slightly in atomic mass because of differing number of neutrons, conduction atom to another, convection.
