Earth Systems: Spatial And Temporal Scale

As you have seen at Dynamic Earth, the earth had an explosive beginning! The Universe and all things in it, galaxies, stars, planets and everything inside you came from a tiny speck no bigger than the head of a pin. It only took a HUGE explosion and BILLIONS of years, but the universe

Process Geomorphology – This studies anything that can make Earth’s landscape change, such as weathering, flood, and erosion. We as humans yield landscape changes

The currently accepted model of the Big Bang is "that the the universe is not static but is expanding and that the expansion began in an incredibly hot, dense Big Bang approximately 13.72 billion years ago" (Krause, 2012, p. 25). This hot, dense bit of matter was only a few millimeters across and contained all of the matter and energy that makes up our universe and as it expanded, it cooled and over the billions of years of existence the universe settled into its current state.

Geo-processes are things that happen under the earth's surface however they change many things on the earth's surface. Geo-processes such as volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis change the earth's surface.

The two things that can happen when energy from the Sun interacts with the ground are the energy could be absorbed into the Earth’s crust or it could ricochet back into the atmosphere.

Therefore, there are many seismic events that have taken place on our geologic timeline and at the same time shaped our historic timeline.

Over time, Earth’s process had to have changed at some point. The Earth’s changing process hasn’t just effected the landforms and natural features, but also the populations organisms living here. These drastic processes have caused landform changes, climate changes, and natural disasters.

The debate about the age of the Earth has persisted for centuries! Some scientists try to disprove Christians and some Christians try to disprove scientific evidence. Nevertheless, there is a surprising number of Christians and scientists who have worked together to give their opinion about the age of the Earth by using both Biblical and scientific facts. The purpose of this essay is to succinctly describe both Old Earth and Young Earth viewpoints. My opinion about the matter will follow, in which I will provide Biblical evidence to support my claims.

The Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago through collisions in the giant disked shape cloud created from the Bing Bang. It is a dynamic planet, with

Both the physical and living Earth have changed over time. Pangea and sea floor spreading is an example of how the physical Earth has changed. About 1 billion years ago, The United States of America was no where close to its current location as of today. How do we know that the continents have moved over time with seafloor spreading? There are many clues of how this has happened.

The Earth’s interior received its heat energy from the impacts of planetesimals and from radioactivity. This heat and energy is gradually radiating into space. As the Earth’s interior continues to cool, we can expect that, in the distant future,

Solar power is energy from the sun’s heat and released energy that is transformed into

Chapter 8 Outline – Earth Systems I. The availability of Earth’s resources was determined when the planet formed A. Formation of Earth 1. Nearly all the elements found on Earth today are as old as the planet itself 2. Figure I.A.2. Stages of the formation of the solar system.

Ultraviolet rays gets all of its energy from the sun, because it is the main source. Some rays are in the form of visible light but Ultraviolet rays are infrared rays. Some people may wonder how Ultraviolet rays affect the environment in

In the book, The Control of Nature by John McPhee, one can see humans in a multitude of locations attempting to control the various aspects of their natural environment. Furthermore, it is clear that the three enduring understandings of Earth Science are present throughout the book as an ongoing theme. The first, the idea that energy, from the Sun and from Earth’s interior, drives all of Earth’s cycles and processes, can be interpreted in many different ways. However, in the different sections of the book, one sees that the Sun can cause weather patterns and can lead to different outcomes. Additionally, the energy, or power, resulting from the intense heat and pressure from the Earth’s interior, can cause volcanic eruptions. As for the idea that matter moves through Earth’s spheres in cyclical processes, over varying periods of time, and at different scales, one can see that water, land, plant matter, and even molten rock come and go in a definite period, whether it is thirty years, or even centuries. In regards to the third idea, that Earth’s surfaces and processes are altered by human engineering, one can see a plethora of examples in the book. The energy from the Sun and from Earth’s interior and the events that are caused from that energy can cause humans to alter the surfaces and processes of Earth by building everything from levees to basins and can even cause humans to make an attempt at cooling flowing