Carbon on the Move! part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Carbon Cycle
Introduction Carbon is constantly on the move through the different components of Earth's Geosphere and Biosphere, but at very different timescales and spatial scales. For example, the processes that move ...

Carbon on the Move! part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Carbon Cycle
Part B: The Global Carbon Cycle In Part A, you investigated how carbon moves through a forest carbon cycle. In this section, you will use a global Carbon Cycle interactive to investigate carbon's many ...

Carbon Module References part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Carbon Cycle
Climate and the Carbon Cycle: Unit Overview Qiu, J., 2010. Measuring the Meltdown. Nature, 468 (7321), 141-142. Lab 1: Living in a Carbon World Lab 2: Carbon on the Move! Data sources for the Carbon Cycle ...

Living in a Carbon World part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Carbon Cycle
Part C: Building Carbon Compounds In the carbon cycle, carbon atoms are constantly on the move, cycling into and out of different components of the biosphere and geosphere. Carbon atoms do not cycle as single ...

Living in a Carbon World part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Carbon Cycle
Part D: Fossil Fuels, Hydrocarbons and CO2 On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig operating in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sank. Oil and gas moved up the drilling well-bore onto the deck causing a ...

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 ...

Drought: Lab Overviews part of EarthLabs:Drought
1. Where's the Water? In this opening lab, you will explore graphics and analyze data about the distribution and availability of the world's fresh water. You will develop a sense of where the ...

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 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
Part B: Modeling Deposition by Icebergs in Coastal Ocean Margins Introduction Sediments are deposited into the ocean primarily by several mechanisms: carried by running water in streams and rivers, blown by the ...