Sun Driven Hydrologic Cycle

Where air and water vapor is. It is where we breath from the surface to 10 kilometers up

Is the system by which water molecules travel at ,above, and below earth’s surface.

Extends above the troposphere from 10 k to 50 k ozone is here and it is here that radiation energy is absorbed

Above the stratosphere to 80 kilometers up this is where meteoroids burn up to create what we call meteors

This is the top layer of atmosphere and goes out into space

Blocks out a significant amount of uv radiation by absorption before reaching the surface

Is basis for our weather

Supports greater amounts of water vapor than cold air

Caused around the planet by the corriolis effect

Weathering of and removal of rock into sediment by chemical and mechanical means

Controls both the processes of weathering and land removal with the aid of temperature

The breakdown of rock to sediment through physical means.

The freezing and thawing of ice

The physical means of mechanical weathering of rock expansion by ice.

Can chemically weather rock into sediment.

Is destruction of rocks through chemical reactions that dissolve the minerals or convert them into other minerals

Dissolution oxidation hydrolysis

Chemical transition of of one mineral to another catalyzed by the addition of hydroxyl ions

acidic waters rest with minerals to remove positive and negative ions from minerals and make them aqueous

Occurs when free ions of oxygen join with iron or magnesium rich minerals to create new minerals like hematite and limonite

Landslides, avalanches, debris flows ,Lahars, slumping , and creep

Most damaging to US slow slow slow process occurs through wetting , drying, or freezing and thawing

Occurs when water , air is added to soil or sediment it then flow s down hill earthquakes can make quicksand like entity when it pushes grains apart in damp soil

soft layer gives way to hard layer above causing collapse