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 ...

Climate Clues from Sand and Mud part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
Introduction Someone who lives on the edge of the Appalachian Mountains can look out the window today see rolling green hills that average 3,000 feet in height. But, if they had lived in the same place 300 million ...

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 ...

Oceans and the Carbon Cycle part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Carbon Cycle
Part A: Down to the Deep - The Ocean's Biological Pump Oceans have a large capacity to absorb CO2, thus reducing the amount of CO2in the atmosphere and bringing carbon atoms into the ocean system. Many CO2 ...

Mountains of Ice part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
Part A: Glaciers and Ice Sheets Our warming atmosphere and changing weather patterns are causing ice all over our planet to melt at an alarming rate. The Arctic sea ice is melting at twice the rate of any region ...

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 ...

Climate Detective Glossary part of EarthLabs:Climate Detectives
biochemical sediments form from the gradual accumulation of biologic material such as shells or dead plant material. calving the process by which an iceberg breaks off from an ice shelf or glacier. chemical ...

Nitrates and Phosphates and Algae, Oh My! part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Part C: Dead Zones and Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) Algal blooms can have devastating effects on surrounding marine environments. Intense algal blooms can cause hypoxia, or oxygen depletion. Some species of algae ...

Climate and the Biosphere: Links and Resources by Lab part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Biosphere
General Resources Climate and Forests National Climate Assessment: Forests U.S. Forest Service: Climate Change Resource Center Climate NASA Climate Portal NOAA Climate Portal NOAA: State of the Climate Report 2014 ...

Extreme Weather part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Biosphere
Part A: Wild Weather and Climate Variability 2016 Officially Hottest Year on Record "NOAA and NASA analyses both indicate that 2016 was the hottest year on record globally. Combining the data sets from the ...