Climate History & the Cryosphere part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Cryosphere
Part B: Ice Cores Ice Core Climate Records In order to fully understand the implications of how climate is changing today, it is important to look at historical records to see how climate has changed in the past. ...

Getting to Know the Cryosphere part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Cryosphere
Part C: The Changing Cryosphere Tour of the Cryosphere Earth is constantly changing all around us. Some changes, like a shift in the direction of a breeze, may be subtle. Other changes, like the landfall of a ...

(Geologic) Timing Is Everything! part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
Part A: The History of Earth Introduction How can scientists determine when geologic events occurred in the 4.6 billion year history of our planet? One way to figure out relative age is by a process called ...

Lab 5: Air, Water, Land, & Life: A Global Perspective part of EarthLabs:Earth System Science
Introduction If we were only able to observe the Earth from the ground, we would never be able to get a truly global view of the Earth system and the interactions among air, water, land, and life. The single best ...

Carbon In the Atmosphere part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Carbon Cycle
Part B: CO2—My Life's Story The carbon cycle has changed over Earth's history Imagine if fossils didn't exist. How would we know that dinosaurs, woolly mammoths and other long-extinct creatures ...

Climate and Earth's Energy Balance part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Biosphere
Part B: Following the Energy Flow Solar power drives Earth's climate. Energy from the sun heats Earth's surface, warms the atmosphere, provides energy for photosynthesis, causes evaporation, drives the ...

Carbon on the Move! part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Carbon Cycle
Part A: A Forest Carbon Cycle In Lab 1, you learned about the molecular nature of carbon compounds and the carbon cycle, and its relationship to other biogeochemical cycles such as the nitrogen cycle. In this Lab ...