GEOS1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Benzene, Central Queensland, Zebu
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Hydrosphere (water) sub part is the cryosphere (ice) Biosphere: changes/fluxes in all 4. Due to changes in solar inputs: everything else happens at boundaries of the spheres. Atmosphere- ice interactions for example. Note diagram: hydrological cycle life span in 3 different phases. Isobars lines of equal pressure far apart on this image, so not much wind. 3000 cloud at about 3000m: from uq weather station. High pressure = low wind speed. Cyclones, anticyclones, jet streams, long waves. Jet streams rivers and winds. Tilt etc: see slide for full picture. 6. 8o per 1000m - = lapse rate: tropopause the point at which temperature changes delineates where the phase changes. Wouldn"t feel sun as heat: atmospheric composition, non- variant gases. Nitrogen, water vapour and carbon dioxide. Co2 dissolved in earth, water condensed, leaving only nitrogen: changes after plant life evolved. Co2 decreased via photosynthesis. O2 increased via photosynthesis. Argon increase via the radioactive decay of potassium. Bacteria produced o2 from co2.
