Description Of A Photo Journal Assignment

The presence and density of cloud is one of the determiners of the earth’s albedo. Albedo is the fraction of solar energy reflected from the

In the past, I have shown interest in many activities dealing with environmental studies. One way of showing this would be that I am a member of the Green Club. Further on in the school year, we are going to have a school-wide recycling plan. Another way I have dealt with environmental studies is by picking up trash on the highway. By doing this, my friends and I are making the community look better, and also helping the world. The last way that I have shown my interest, is by writing an essay on global warming, in my Earth Science class. When I was writing this, I learned that humans and natural causes affect the world. In my opinion, I think they are both equal contributors to global warming.

Clouds to form in the atmosphere have to have water vapor present. This water vapor makes up a cloud. The water vapor in the atmosphere comes from evaporation or deposition. Also the temperature of the air is below the dew point. When the water is fully saturated, it starts to rise and the expansional cooling process begins. During the process of condensation, the aerosol particles act like a nuclei in the atmosphere, which began to grow, creating ice crystals that are big enough to produce a cloud.

Condensation is the opposite of Evaporation. It is when saturated air cools down below the dew point which causes them molecules to stick together and from clouds. When we see clouds they don’t all look the same. This goes back to when the temperature causes the amount of water to evaporate. So that’s why clouds are all different shapes and sizes.

Clouds- Clouds are a mass of water or ice droplets in the air. An example of a

Growing up, we all went through the water cycle lesson and we will never forget it. The reason being, we encounter the water cycle throughout our entire life and it will always effect our systems and more importantly our water system. As illustrated in the picture, our water cycle includes the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, which then goes to many places. During evaporation, the sun is used as a main power to make this happen. The sun’s rays beat down onto the ground creating all of the moisture and water to fizzle into a gas state into the atmosphere and get stored away into the clouds. When it is stored into the clouds it is condensing. Condensation means that the gas is again forming itself back into its liquid state to get ready to return to Earth. The condensation then forms into precipitation. Precipitation comes in many different forms. You can see it as rain, snow, sleet, or hail making its way back to us. What happens to it then depends on the area. The water might end up as runoff, or become

It is best described as water evaporating into the atmosphere and continues to condense into the clouds. It will than fall back to earth as precipitation. This precipitation soaks down into the soil as a process called infiltration, where it joins the groundwater, or it will run off over the landscape to join surface water. The surface water may evaporate out of the lake and back into the atmosphere or the water will move through the soil towards the groundwater and be taken up by plants that will put it back into the atmosphere. This process will just keep continuing and continuing over and

The water cycle represents how water is exchanged and cycled through Earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere (2010 pg.1). Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation are all three main factors within the water cycle. Evaporation occurs when a liquids surface changes to gas. For example, when water from rivers, oceans or lakes evaporate, it becomes water vapor. Condensation occurs when gas changes to a liquid. For example, clouds form when water vapor condescends. Precipitation is described as any liquid or solid water that falls to earth from above. A great and simple example would be rain, snow or hail (2010 pg.1). Within the water cycle, there are three states of water: solid, liquid and gas. Most of Earth’s freshwater is

Precipitation Depending on the temperature, season, type of cloud, and other conditions, precipitation occurs when the water that has evaporated becomes so heavy the clouds cannot hold it anymore and it falls back to earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow (The Water Cycle, 2009; Wilkinson, 2007).

it can make rain, snow, hail, or even fog. The scientific term for acid rain is

HYDROLOGIC CYCLE The hydrologic cycle is a constant movement of water above, on, and below the earth's surface. It is a cycle that replenishes ground water supplies. It begins as water vaporizes into the atmosphere from vegetation, soil, lakes, rivers, snowfields and oceans-a process called evapotranspiration. As the water vapor rises it condenses to form clouds that return water to the land through precipitation: rain, snow, or hail. Precipitation falls on the earth and either percolates into the soil or flows across the ground. Usually it does both. When precipitation percolates into the soil it is called infiltration when it flows across the ground it is called surface run off. The amount of precipitation that infiltrates, versus the

Credibility Position (Why you picked this topic): After I read this particular article, it made me realize that the global warming was taking pace at a rapid speed than I had imagined. Its impact was certainly happening quickly than I expected. Then, I did some research to find out its problems and also I looked at solutions to minimize the impact of global warming.

What is a photograph? The simplicity of taking a photograph leads many to ponder its artistic value. Yet, it is undeniable that there are some photos that cause an emotional reaction deeper than simply observing a recorded point in time. Surely, there are photographs that cause more reaction than some modern art pieces. There seems to be two types of photographs. The first classification is the ‘time capture’ photo – an image with the sole purpose of recording a particular event or point in time. The second nature of a photo carries a ‘deeper meaning,’ which has the ability to change the observer’s mood and cause a reaction. But what distinguishes these two varieties? There are a

Water vapor. Out of all the gases, water vapor makes the largest contribution to the Earth’s GHE (EPA, 2015). Water vapor has an atmospheric lifetime (AL) (defined as “the approximate amount of time it would take for the anthropogenic increment to an atmospheric pollutant concentration to return to its natural level (assuming emissions cease) as a result of either being converted to another chemical compound or being taken out of the atmosphere via a sink” (EPA, 2013)) of approximately 10 days (EPA, 2015). It is unlike other GHG and unique in the fact that when it reaches high enough concentrations in the atmosphere, it has the ability to condense into H2O liquid and can rain out from the atmosphere back to the surface of the Earth (EPA, 2015). It also acts as a feedback mechanism to climate change (IPCC, 2007; EPA, 2015). This is mainly due to two reasons. The first being that the total amount of H2O vapor that is in the atmosphere at any given time is directly related to the Earth’s surface temperature (EPA, 2015). Secondly, the H2O vapor in the atmosphere can affect the formation of clouds which directly influence the GHE by cooling (reflecting heat from the Sun) or by warming (trapping heat in the atmosphere) the surface of the Earth (EPA, 2015). Essentially, any change in clouds such as type, location, water content, altitude, particle size or shape, and lifetimes can influence their effect on the cooling and warming of the Earth (IPCC, 2013). Therefore, any

One of the most all time debated and controversial topics to date in science is global warming. Over the last few decades climate change have lead scientist to develop a theories that human beings are the major contributors to the global warming crisis. Many theories suggest that different types of issues contribute to the warming of the planet but the mitigation strategies to slow this process down vary as well.