ENV100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gneiss, San Andreas Fault, The Crust

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Determine soil chemistry and replenish soil nutrients, which influences the distribution of vegetation and ecosystems. Control the formation of mineral resources and fossil fuels influence the development of landscapes and mountain ranges, distribution of climatic zones, oceanic and atmospheric circulation. Heating, melting, cooling, breaking, reassembling of rocks and minerals. Processes related to the movement of large fragments of lithosphere. Water is essential for life and biochemical reactions. Water is involved in nearly every environmental system. Water is both a participant in and the main transport medium for environmental processes. We will return to the hydrologic cycle and human impacts later in the term. Nutrient (biogeochemical) cycle = the movement of nutrients through environmental systems. Elements that are crucial for life support. Carbon is in carbohydrate, fat, protein, bone all organic matter as well as in inorganic forms. Photosynthesis moves carbon from the atmosphere to biosphere. Respiration returns carbon to atmosphere and hydrosphere.

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