GEOG 2050 Chapter : Chapter 4 Guide
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Helpful guide and questions for material for exam 2 (chapter 4) Earth"s biosphere pulses daily, weekly, and yearly with flows of energy. Think for a moment of the annual pace of your own life, your wardrobe, gardens, and lifestyle activities all reflect shifting seasonal energy patterns. Thus begins the culmination of the passage of energy from the sun, across space, to the top of the atmosphere, down through the layers of the atmosphere to earth"s surface. This entire process should be thought of as a vast flow-system with energy cascading through fluid earth systems. New remote-sensing capabilities are helping scientists understand more about earth"s energy budgets. Figure 4. 7 looks at aerosols including black carbon that both reflect and absorb incoming insolation as identified in four images by the ceres sensors aboard satellite terra between january and march 2001, for southern asia and the indian.
