Climate and the Biosphere: Lab Overviews part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Biosphere
1. Climate, Weather, and Trees In this lab, you are introduced to the relationship between climate and trees and well as the Vermont maple syrup industry, the case study for this module. You will consider the ...

Climate Detectives: Unit Overview part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
Educator Pages » Why study Earth's climate history? Earth's climate has changed, sometimes dramatically, in the past. If you had lived on the island of Manhattan about 20,000 years ago, you would have ...

Coring Is Not Boring! part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
Introduction Sediments can reveal the secrets of Earth's past climate history—what it was like on land and in the sea thousands and even millions of years ago. Over geologic time, the sinking and settling ...

Droughts of the Past part of EarthLabs:Drought
Part B: Recent Droughts Drought is all over the map: compare these two maps showing the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) for the months of May in 2013 and 2016. Though each map depicts conditions at the end of ...

Trees and Paleoclimate part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Biosphere
Part A: Records of the Past: Predictions for the Future Paleoclimatology is the study of ancient climates. The origin of the word is from the Greek word "paleo," which means ancient. Paleoclimatologists ...

Lab 3: Land Ice part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Cryosphere
Introduction Throughout history, Earth's climate has continuously experienced slow natural swings between being virtually ice free and being almost totally covered in ice. Today, we are somewhere in between ...

Climate, Weather, and Trees part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Biosphere
Part B: Case Study: Life of a Maple Tree Imagine what your life would be like if you could live for hundreds of years; some maple trees can do just that! Use the series of pictures in the image, right, to ...

Droughts of the Past part of EarthLabs:Drought
Part C: How Common is Drought? You've seen the spatial variability of drought; now we'll take a quick look at its temporal distribution. In this part of the activity, you'll see what percentage of ...

Carbon Cycle Glossary part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Carbon Cycle
abiotic non-living physical and chemical environmental factors that affect the ability of organism to survive and reproduce; examples include rainfall, temperature, soil nutrients, sunlight. afforestation ...

Climate Detective Glossary part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
abrasion the mechanical scraping of a rock surface by friction between rocks and moving particles during their transport by wind, glacier, waves, gravity, running water or erosion. biochemical sediments form from ...