Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Earth Wealth Layers of the atmosphere

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 Troposphere

The troposphere is the lowest region in the Earth's (or any planet's) atmosphere.It’s the layer in which you live. On the Earth, it goes from ground (or water) level up to about 11 miles (17 kilometers) high. This layer is where we would see most of the clouds and where most of the weather conditions would take place.It is the densest atmospheric layer, containing almost 90% of the atmosphere’s total mass.All the weather and clouds occur in the troposphere.The tropopause is the boundary zone (or transition layer) between the troposphere and the stratosphere.




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Stratosphere

The layer above the troposphere is called the stratosphere.The stratosphere extends between 11 and 31 miles (17 to 50 kilometers) above the earth's surface.The main thing about the stratosphere is that it has the ozone, which is made up of ozone molecules that absorb the ultraviolet rays from the Sun and shield us from its extremely harmful effects.Ozone is a molecule that is made up of three oxygen atoms (instead of two oxygen atoms).

Mesosphere

It is the coldest atmospheric layer and this is where meteors usually burn up when they enter Earth’s atmosphere.The mesosphere extends from between 31 and 50 miles (17 to 80 kilometers) above the earth's surfaceThe mesosphere is characterized by temperatures that quickly decrease as height increases with temperatures as low as -93°C at the top of the layer. and this is where meteors usually burn up when they enter Earth’s atmosphere.


Thermosphere

The thermosphere is the upper most layer of the atmosphere.temperature increases with altitude, due to the many gases in this layer absorbing solar radiation. Temperatures can reach as high as 1,700°C.It is said that because of the extreme low pressure, a person would not feel the heat. This layer also produces auroras, which are natural bright colored display of lights in the sky. They are mainly seen at night and in the Polar Regions.

Earth Wealth Dynamics of the Earth

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Insolation, the effects of water, groundwater, springs

Geological factors external dynamics of the Earth:
-Radiation from the Sun-insolation,
-Water,
-Snow and ice,
-Effects of organisms

Insolation-illumination

Insolation to heat the rocks in the lithosphere and leads to expansion of certain mineral constituents.Stretching is not uniform because of various physical and chemical properties of minerals that build a rock, and is not uniform in depth of rock (on the surface is more intense).At night when there is no sunshine ,rocks cools and tightens.



Multiple repetition of heating and cooling of the cohesion forces between mineral-poor, resulting microcracks and cracks that are increasingly wider and deeper, until it finally came to the disintegration of rock.
Resistance of rocks to the impact of insulation depends on the mineral composition, structure and texture of rocks, vegetation, thickness of cover, relief and climate characteristics.
Effect of insolation is more pronounced in areas with large temperature differences between day and night in Coarse heterogeneous composition of the rocks.

WATER-atmospheric, surface and groundwater


Water participates in the destruction (physical and chemical)of rocks, transportation and accumulation of fragments and particles, thus affecting the characteristics of relief:
-in a humid area of its physical and chemical attack is most prominent,
- in the glacial area, works mostly mechanical (glaciers, rock disintegration by freezing water in cracks),
-in the arid area mechanically destroying the mechanism fragments and particles at small distances, and participates in the chemical dissolution of rock.