An earthquake is when the earth shakes strongly causing huge cracks, a volcano is an opening in the earth's crust, and a landslide occurs when rocks and soil slide from higher to lower ground.
A convergent boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move toward each other, with one plate subducting under the other. This can create a subduction zone and result in volcanic activity and earthquakes along the boundary. When one plate subducts downward into the mantle, it melts from the heat and pressure, causing volcanoes to form on the other plate above.
Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun on Earth's oceans, with the moon having the strongest influence due to its closer proximity. Other factors like strong winds, underwater seismic events, and explosions can also influence tidal patterns and heights to a lesser extent. The regular waxing and waning of the tides is due to Earth's revolution around the sun and the moon's revolution around Earth.
Seismology is the study of earthquakes, which occur when stress causes rocks under the Earth's crust to elastically deform until they break, rebounding and snapping back into their original shape. This elastic rebound releases energy in the form of seismic waves, causing the shaking that defines an earthquake. Faults form from tectonic stresses and are breaks in the Earth's crust. The focus is the point within the earth where an earthquake originates, while the epicenter is the point on the surface directly above the focus.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only object in the Universe known to harbor life. According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4 billion years ago.[24][25][26] Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Sun and the Moon, Earth's only natural satellite. Earth revolves around the Sun in 365.26 days, a period known as an Earth year. During this time, Earth rotates about its axis about 366.26 times.[n 5]
Earth's axis of rotation is tilted, producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface.[27] The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon causes ocean tides, stabilizes the Earth's orientation on its axis, and gradually slows its rotation.[28] Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest of the four terrestrial planets.
Earth's lithosphere is divided into several rigid tectonic plates that migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of Earth's surface is covered with water, mostly by oceans.[29] The remaining 29% is land consisting of continents and islands that together have many lakes, rivers and other sources of water that contribute to the hydrosphere. The majority of Earth's polar regions are covered in ice, including the Antarctic ice sheet and the sea ice of the Arctic ice pack. Earth's interior remains active with a solid iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates the Earth's magnetic field, and a convecting mantle that drives plate tectonics.
Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the oceans and began to affect the Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to the proliferation of aerobic and anaerobic organisms. Some geological evidence indicates that life may have arisen as much as 4.1 billion years ago. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties, and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive.[30][31] In the history of the Earth, biodiversity has gone through long periods of expansion, occasionally punctuated by mass extinction events. Over 99% of all species[32] that ever lived on Earth are extinct.[33][34] Estimates of the number of species on Earth today vary widely;[35][36][37] most species have not been described.[38] Over 7.4 billion humans live on Earth and depend on its biosphere and natural resources for their survival. Humans have developed diverse societies and cultures; politically, the world has about 200 sovereign states.
The document discusses plate tectonics and how it relates to volcanoes and earthquakes. It explains that volcanoes occur when plates move apart and spew hot lava, while earthquakes happen when plates rub together in opposite directions. Plate tectonics was proposed in the 1960s and suggests that Earth's outer layer is made of plates that float on the asthenosphere, causing volcanic eruptions and earthquakes that can damage homes and infrastructure.
This document discusses how various natural forces shape the Earth's surface through erosion and deposition over long periods of time. It provides examples of how wind erodes rock formations into unique shapes over hundreds of thousands of years. Waves similarly erode cliffs by carrying away tiny pieces. The Grand Canyon was formed by different erosion processes over millions of years. Glaciers can also reshape landscapes by pushing material as they advance and withdraw, leaving gouges that become features like the Great Lakes. The Appalachian Mountains have eroded from their original height due to weathering over extremely long timescales.
Mantle convection is the driving force behind plate tectonics. Heat rises within the Earth's mantle, causing the lithosphere plates to move over long periods of time. Mantle plumes are abnormally hot regions within the mantle that can partially melt and cause volcanism when they reach the Earth's surface. Hot spots form as oceanic plates move over mantle plumes, creating volcanic island chains. Plate tectonics results in geological structures like folds and faults at plate boundaries and causes the formation of mountain ranges, rift valleys at spreading centers, and deep ocean trenches.
A convergent boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move toward each other, with one plate subducting under the other. This can create a subduction zone and result in volcanic activity and earthquakes along the boundary. When one plate subducts downward into the mantle, it melts from the heat and pressure, causing volcanoes to form on the other plate above.
Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun on Earth's oceans, with the moon having the strongest influence due to its closer proximity. Other factors like strong winds, underwater seismic events, and explosions can also influence tidal patterns and heights to a lesser extent. The regular waxing and waning of the tides is due to Earth's revolution around the sun and the moon's revolution around Earth.
Seismology is the study of earthquakes, which occur when stress causes rocks under the Earth's crust to elastically deform until they break, rebounding and snapping back into their original shape. This elastic rebound releases energy in the form of seismic waves, causing the shaking that defines an earthquake. Faults form from tectonic stresses and are breaks in the Earth's crust. The focus is the point within the earth where an earthquake originates, while the epicenter is the point on the surface directly above the focus.
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only object in the Universe known to harbor life. According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4 billion years ago.[24][25][26] Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Sun and the Moon, Earth's only natural satellite. Earth revolves around the Sun in 365.26 days, a period known as an Earth year. During this time, Earth rotates about its axis about 366.26 times.[n 5]
Earth's axis of rotation is tilted, producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface.[27] The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon causes ocean tides, stabilizes the Earth's orientation on its axis, and gradually slows its rotation.[28] Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest of the four terrestrial planets.
Earth's lithosphere is divided into several rigid tectonic plates that migrate across the surface over periods of many millions of years. About 71% of Earth's surface is covered with water, mostly by oceans.[29] The remaining 29% is land consisting of continents and islands that together have many lakes, rivers and other sources of water that contribute to the hydrosphere. The majority of Earth's polar regions are covered in ice, including the Antarctic ice sheet and the sea ice of the Arctic ice pack. Earth's interior remains active with a solid iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates the Earth's magnetic field, and a convecting mantle that drives plate tectonics.
Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the oceans and began to affect the Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to the proliferation of aerobic and anaerobic organisms. Some geological evidence indicates that life may have arisen as much as 4.1 billion years ago. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties, and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive.[30][31] In the history of the Earth, biodiversity has gone through long periods of expansion, occasionally punctuated by mass extinction events. Over 99% of all species[32] that ever lived on Earth are extinct.[33][34] Estimates of the number of species on Earth today vary widely;[35][36][37] most species have not been described.[38] Over 7.4 billion humans live on Earth and depend on its biosphere and natural resources for their survival. Humans have developed diverse societies and cultures; politically, the world has about 200 sovereign states.
The document discusses plate tectonics and how it relates to volcanoes and earthquakes. It explains that volcanoes occur when plates move apart and spew hot lava, while earthquakes happen when plates rub together in opposite directions. Plate tectonics was proposed in the 1960s and suggests that Earth's outer layer is made of plates that float on the asthenosphere, causing volcanic eruptions and earthquakes that can damage homes and infrastructure.
This document discusses how various natural forces shape the Earth's surface through erosion and deposition over long periods of time. It provides examples of how wind erodes rock formations into unique shapes over hundreds of thousands of years. Waves similarly erode cliffs by carrying away tiny pieces. The Grand Canyon was formed by different erosion processes over millions of years. Glaciers can also reshape landscapes by pushing material as they advance and withdraw, leaving gouges that become features like the Great Lakes. The Appalachian Mountains have eroded from their original height due to weathering over extremely long timescales.
Mantle convection is the driving force behind plate tectonics. Heat rises within the Earth's mantle, causing the lithosphere plates to move over long periods of time. Mantle plumes are abnormally hot regions within the mantle that can partially melt and cause volcanism when they reach the Earth's surface. Hot spots form as oceanic plates move over mantle plumes, creating volcanic island chains. Plate tectonics results in geological structures like folds and faults at plate boundaries and causes the formation of mountain ranges, rift valleys at spreading centers, and deep ocean trenches.
Volcanoes form at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as at divergent boundaries like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge or at convergent boundaries. The type of eruption depends on the composition of the magma and amount of gases; basaltic magma produces quiet eruptions while magma rich in silica or water causes explosive eruptions. The resulting volcano shape is also influenced by the eruption - shield volcanoes form from fluid basalt lava, cinder cones from tephra ejected in explosions, and composite volcanoes feature layers from both eruption types.
1. The document discusses the two main types of forces that cause changes on Earth's surface: endogenic (endogenous) forces and exogenic (exogenous) forces.
2. Endogenic forces occur beneath the surface and cause natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes, and changes in landforms. They result from plate tectonic activity.
3. Exogenic forces occur above the surface and include the erosional and depositional forces of air, water, ice, and wind. They shape landforms at the Earth's surface like sea caves, sand dunes, and deltas.
This document provides information about different types of earth movements and landforms. It discusses endogenic and exogenic forces that cause volcanoes and earthquakes from within and outside the earth. Volcanoes form from magma rising through cracks and releasing pressure at plate boundaries. Earthquakes result from vibrations caused by plate movement, with an epicenter and focus point. Weathering and erosion shape the landscape over time, forming features like waterfalls, meanders, and oxbow lakes in rivers and sea caves, arches, and stacks along coastal regions. Wind can also shape the earth, producing mushroom rocks in deserts and sand dunes that accumulate when winds slow.
Earthquakes occur along fault lines as a result of tectonic plate movement and built up stress being released. They can cause significant damage depending on their magnitude, proximity to populated areas, and local soil and construction practices. Major earthquake zones exist along plate boundaries where tectonic plates converge, diverge, or move past each other. The largest, most destructive quakes occur in subduction zones. To minimize earthquake risk, communities can educate citizens, construct earthquake-resistant buildings, and implement emergency planning and insurance.
Erosion is the wearing away and movement of surface materials by forces like water, wind, or glaciers. There are several types of erosion including plucking by glaciers, which picks up debris, and abrasion, where wind acts like a sandblaster wearing down rocks. Wind erosion can scatter dust over large areas through deflation and form sand dunes or dust storms in dry, unvegetated regions. Glaciers are powerful erosion agents that can carve U-shaped valleys and leave behind deposits like moraines, eskers, and till when they melt. Erosion shapes the Earth's surface over time.
An earthquake is caused by the sudden displacement of rock in the Earth's crust due to crustal strain, volcanoes, landslides, or collapsing caverns. Earthquakes can cause ground shaking, landslides, fires, soil liquefaction, tsunamis, floods, and damage human infrastructure. Soil liquefaction occurs when saturated granular soils like silty sands or sandy gravels lose strength during an earthquake or sudden stress change and behave like liquid, which can damage buildings and cause them to sink or tilt.
The rock cycle describes how rocks are continuously transformed between three main types - igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks - through geological processes such as erosion, deposition, burial, melting, and crystallization. Igneous rock is weathered into sediment and deposited to form sedimentary rock, which is then buried and altered by heat and pressure into metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rock can be melted into magma and erupt as new igneous rock, restarting the cycle.
The document discusses how the Earth's surface is constantly changing through various weathering and erosion processes. It describes three main types of weathering - physical weathering caused by water, wind, and ice, which breaks down rock and sediment. Erosion is then defined as the movement and transport of this weathered material by water, wind, ice, or gravity. Specific examples of erosion by each of these forces are given, such as glacial erosion, water erosion, and landslides caused by gravity. The document concludes by discussing related geologic processes like deposition, which forms new landforms over time like deltas, canyons, meanders, and floodplains through the deposition of eroded sediments.
The document summarizes plate tectonics and its relationship to various geological phenomena. There are three main types of plate boundaries - divergent where plates move apart, convergent where they collide in subduction or collision zones, and transform where they slide past each other. Plate movement is responsible for volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain building. Earthquakes occur when stress builds up at faults until the plates suddenly slip, releasing energy. Tsunamis are large sea waves generated by earthquakes or landslides that flood coastal areas.
The document discusses the different types of landforms found on Earth's surface, which make up 1/4 of the planet not covered by water. It describes mountains, plains, and plateaus as the main landforms. It then focuses on how volcanoes and earthquakes continually change and shape the surface by creating new land features, destroying existing ones, and causing the ground to shake, respectively. Volcanoes form from magma breaking through the crust, while earthquakes are caused by movements along faults in the Earth's tectonic plates.
Remember, you don't have to be able give definitions for all the vocabulary. Key Ideas are Weathering, Erosion, Deposition and fast vs slow Earth changing processes.
The lithospheric plates slowly move due to movement of magma inside the Earth, causing changes on the surface. During an earthquake, safe spots are under sturdy furniture away from fireplaces, windows and falling objects. People should spread awareness about earthquake preparedness among friends and family. A 1999 earthquake in Bhuj, India measured 6.9 on the Richter scale.
Internal Forces Shaping the Earth discusses plate tectonics and how the movement of tectonic plates causes earthquakes and volcanic activity. Tectonic plates move in four main ways - spreading, subduction, collision, and shearing - which reshapes the Earth's surface over time. Earthquakes occur when plates suddenly slip or grind past each other at fault lines. Most earthquakes and volcanoes are located at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean.
The document discusses various geological features formed by different earth processes. It describes lithospheric plates, which are composed of continental and oceanic plates, and how earthquakes and volcanoes commonly occur at their boundaries. It then explains different landforms created by internal forces like volcanoes and earthquakes, and external forces like weathering, erosion, wind and water flow including glaciers, sand dunes, waterfalls and deltas.
Earthquakes occur when tectonic plates shift beneath the Earth's surface, causing the ground to shake and sometimes displace. Large offshore earthquakes can displace the seabed enough to create tsunamis. Earthquakes may also trigger landslides or volcanic eruptions in rare cases. Volcanic eruptions happen when gas and magma build up underground, releasing lava, rocks, and ash during more explosive eruptions. Eruptions with less gas and thicker magma tend to be less dramatic and result in lava flows from the vent.
The document discusses earthquakes and their causes and effects. It notes that earthquakes can kill people and damage buildings when they occur. The movement of tectonic plates beneath the earth's surface can cause earthquakes when the plates shift or collide. A specific earthquake that occurred in Beijing in June 2011 is described, where over 1,000 structures were destroyed, at least 25 people were killed, and 250 were injured. Rescue workers helped survivors and orphaned children were taken in by other families.
This document summarizes the key forces that shape the Earth's surface - lithospheric plates, endogenic forces from inside the Earth, and exogenic forces from outside. It provides examples of specific landforms created by these forces, including earthquakes, volcanoes, rivers, sea waves, glaciers, and wind. Rivers form landforms like waterfalls, meanders, ox-bow lakes, deltas, and floodplains. Sea waves create sea caves, arches, stacks, and sea cliffs. Glaciers form lakes and moraines, while wind shapes mushroom rocks, sand dunes, and loess deposits.
The document discusses the motion of the Earth and how it causes day and night as well as apparent motion of the sun. It explains that the Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours, which causes one side of the Earth to face the sun while the other side faces away, creating day and night. It also discusses how the Earth revolves around the sun over the course of 365 days.
All living things go through life cycles that involve different stages of development. The butterfly's life cycle has four main stages: egg, caterpillar, pupa, and adult butterfly. As a caterpillar, it eats leaves and grows quickly before forming a pupa and undergoing transformation inside until emerging as a young butterfly and finally a mature adult butterfly that can lay new eggs.
Simple machines make work easier by changing the amount or direction of force needed. There are six basic types of simple machines: the lever, pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, screw, and wedge. Compound machines combine two or more simple machines; examples include scissors, bicycles, and wheelbarrows.
Volcanoes form at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as at divergent boundaries like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge or at convergent boundaries. The type of eruption depends on the composition of the magma and amount of gases; basaltic magma produces quiet eruptions while magma rich in silica or water causes explosive eruptions. The resulting volcano shape is also influenced by the eruption - shield volcanoes form from fluid basalt lava, cinder cones from tephra ejected in explosions, and composite volcanoes feature layers from both eruption types.
1. The document discusses the two main types of forces that cause changes on Earth's surface: endogenic (endogenous) forces and exogenic (exogenous) forces.
2. Endogenic forces occur beneath the surface and cause natural disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes, and changes in landforms. They result from plate tectonic activity.
3. Exogenic forces occur above the surface and include the erosional and depositional forces of air, water, ice, and wind. They shape landforms at the Earth's surface like sea caves, sand dunes, and deltas.
This document provides information about different types of earth movements and landforms. It discusses endogenic and exogenic forces that cause volcanoes and earthquakes from within and outside the earth. Volcanoes form from magma rising through cracks and releasing pressure at plate boundaries. Earthquakes result from vibrations caused by plate movement, with an epicenter and focus point. Weathering and erosion shape the landscape over time, forming features like waterfalls, meanders, and oxbow lakes in rivers and sea caves, arches, and stacks along coastal regions. Wind can also shape the earth, producing mushroom rocks in deserts and sand dunes that accumulate when winds slow.
Earthquakes occur along fault lines as a result of tectonic plate movement and built up stress being released. They can cause significant damage depending on their magnitude, proximity to populated areas, and local soil and construction practices. Major earthquake zones exist along plate boundaries where tectonic plates converge, diverge, or move past each other. The largest, most destructive quakes occur in subduction zones. To minimize earthquake risk, communities can educate citizens, construct earthquake-resistant buildings, and implement emergency planning and insurance.
Erosion is the wearing away and movement of surface materials by forces like water, wind, or glaciers. There are several types of erosion including plucking by glaciers, which picks up debris, and abrasion, where wind acts like a sandblaster wearing down rocks. Wind erosion can scatter dust over large areas through deflation and form sand dunes or dust storms in dry, unvegetated regions. Glaciers are powerful erosion agents that can carve U-shaped valleys and leave behind deposits like moraines, eskers, and till when they melt. Erosion shapes the Earth's surface over time.
An earthquake is caused by the sudden displacement of rock in the Earth's crust due to crustal strain, volcanoes, landslides, or collapsing caverns. Earthquakes can cause ground shaking, landslides, fires, soil liquefaction, tsunamis, floods, and damage human infrastructure. Soil liquefaction occurs when saturated granular soils like silty sands or sandy gravels lose strength during an earthquake or sudden stress change and behave like liquid, which can damage buildings and cause them to sink or tilt.
The rock cycle describes how rocks are continuously transformed between three main types - igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks - through geological processes such as erosion, deposition, burial, melting, and crystallization. Igneous rock is weathered into sediment and deposited to form sedimentary rock, which is then buried and altered by heat and pressure into metamorphic rock. Metamorphic rock can be melted into magma and erupt as new igneous rock, restarting the cycle.
The document discusses how the Earth's surface is constantly changing through various weathering and erosion processes. It describes three main types of weathering - physical weathering caused by water, wind, and ice, which breaks down rock and sediment. Erosion is then defined as the movement and transport of this weathered material by water, wind, ice, or gravity. Specific examples of erosion by each of these forces are given, such as glacial erosion, water erosion, and landslides caused by gravity. The document concludes by discussing related geologic processes like deposition, which forms new landforms over time like deltas, canyons, meanders, and floodplains through the deposition of eroded sediments.
The document summarizes plate tectonics and its relationship to various geological phenomena. There are three main types of plate boundaries - divergent where plates move apart, convergent where they collide in subduction or collision zones, and transform where they slide past each other. Plate movement is responsible for volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain building. Earthquakes occur when stress builds up at faults until the plates suddenly slip, releasing energy. Tsunamis are large sea waves generated by earthquakes or landslides that flood coastal areas.
The document discusses the different types of landforms found on Earth's surface, which make up 1/4 of the planet not covered by water. It describes mountains, plains, and plateaus as the main landforms. It then focuses on how volcanoes and earthquakes continually change and shape the surface by creating new land features, destroying existing ones, and causing the ground to shake, respectively. Volcanoes form from magma breaking through the crust, while earthquakes are caused by movements along faults in the Earth's tectonic plates.
Remember, you don't have to be able give definitions for all the vocabulary. Key Ideas are Weathering, Erosion, Deposition and fast vs slow Earth changing processes.
The lithospheric plates slowly move due to movement of magma inside the Earth, causing changes on the surface. During an earthquake, safe spots are under sturdy furniture away from fireplaces, windows and falling objects. People should spread awareness about earthquake preparedness among friends and family. A 1999 earthquake in Bhuj, India measured 6.9 on the Richter scale.
Internal Forces Shaping the Earth discusses plate tectonics and how the movement of tectonic plates causes earthquakes and volcanic activity. Tectonic plates move in four main ways - spreading, subduction, collision, and shearing - which reshapes the Earth's surface over time. Earthquakes occur when plates suddenly slip or grind past each other at fault lines. Most earthquakes and volcanoes are located at boundaries where tectonic plates meet, such as the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean.
The document discusses various geological features formed by different earth processes. It describes lithospheric plates, which are composed of continental and oceanic plates, and how earthquakes and volcanoes commonly occur at their boundaries. It then explains different landforms created by internal forces like volcanoes and earthquakes, and external forces like weathering, erosion, wind and water flow including glaciers, sand dunes, waterfalls and deltas.
Earthquakes occur when tectonic plates shift beneath the Earth's surface, causing the ground to shake and sometimes displace. Large offshore earthquakes can displace the seabed enough to create tsunamis. Earthquakes may also trigger landslides or volcanic eruptions in rare cases. Volcanic eruptions happen when gas and magma build up underground, releasing lava, rocks, and ash during more explosive eruptions. Eruptions with less gas and thicker magma tend to be less dramatic and result in lava flows from the vent.
The document discusses earthquakes and their causes and effects. It notes that earthquakes can kill people and damage buildings when they occur. The movement of tectonic plates beneath the earth's surface can cause earthquakes when the plates shift or collide. A specific earthquake that occurred in Beijing in June 2011 is described, where over 1,000 structures were destroyed, at least 25 people were killed, and 250 were injured. Rescue workers helped survivors and orphaned children were taken in by other families.
This document summarizes the key forces that shape the Earth's surface - lithospheric plates, endogenic forces from inside the Earth, and exogenic forces from outside. It provides examples of specific landforms created by these forces, including earthquakes, volcanoes, rivers, sea waves, glaciers, and wind. Rivers form landforms like waterfalls, meanders, ox-bow lakes, deltas, and floodplains. Sea waves create sea caves, arches, stacks, and sea cliffs. Glaciers form lakes and moraines, while wind shapes mushroom rocks, sand dunes, and loess deposits.
The document discusses the motion of the Earth and how it causes day and night as well as apparent motion of the sun. It explains that the Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours, which causes one side of the Earth to face the sun while the other side faces away, creating day and night. It also discusses how the Earth revolves around the sun over the course of 365 days.
All living things go through life cycles that involve different stages of development. The butterfly's life cycle has four main stages: egg, caterpillar, pupa, and adult butterfly. As a caterpillar, it eats leaves and grows quickly before forming a pupa and undergoing transformation inside until emerging as a young butterfly and finally a mature adult butterfly that can lay new eggs.
Simple machines make work easier by changing the amount or direction of force needed. There are six basic types of simple machines: the lever, pulley, wheel and axle, inclined plane, screw, and wedge. Compound machines combine two or more simple machines; examples include scissors, bicycles, and wheelbarrows.
This document discusses how forces like pushes and pulls cause motion by either moving things away (push) or bringing them closer (pull). It defines any push or pull that moves an object as a force. The document encourages the reader to have a wonderful day.
The document discusses the formation and composition of soil. It explains that soil is formed over long periods of time through the weathering and breakdown of rocks and the decomposition of dead plants and animals. The soil is made up of weathered rocks, humus from decomposed materials, and minerals. It has distinct layers with varying properties including the topsoil, subsoil, and bedrock below. Different types of soil like sand, silt, and clay are determined by the size of particles. Loam is an ideal soil made of a mixture of these. The document emphasizes the importance of protecting soil as a vital natural resource.
This document discusses different types of water resources and how water is treated and distributed for human use. It explains that there are two main types of water - fresh water found in rivers, lakes, glaciers etc. and salt water found in oceans. It then outlines several key steps in treating water from rivers and lakes, such as allowing solids to settle, filtering through layers of sand and gravel, adding chemicals to kill harmful organisms, and pumping the clean water for distribution.
Natural disasters and diseases can change environments and affect living organisms. Floods occur when heavy rain falls in a short period, covering land with water, while droughts are long periods without rain that can dry up rivers and lakes, increasing wildfire risks that damage plant and animal habitats. Diseases from mold, bacteria, and mildew also easily spread in environments and harm living things, with one infected tree having the potential to destroy an entire forest.
Plants need five things to survive and grow: oxygen from the air, water, nutrients found in soil, space to grow freely, and sunlight. Fruits were once living parts of plants but become non-living when picked after ripening.
Organisms adapt traits that help them survive in their environments. Some examples of adaptations include camouflage, mimicry, nocturnal behavior, hibernation, and migration. Camouflage allows animals to blend into their surroundings and hide from predators or to ambush prey. Mimicry enables some animals to resemble other organisms for protection. Nocturnal habits, hibernation, and migration are ways animals adapt to changes or shortages in their environments like weather changes or lack of food sources. Plants also exhibit adaptations like deep roots that help them survive in difficult conditions.
Liquids and gases take the shape of their container, unlike solids which do not. Volume is defined as the space occupied by matter, and can be measured using tools like measuring cups. Common units for measuring volume include liters and milliliters.
The document compares different ecosystems by describing their climates and key characteristics. Tropical rainforests have hot, wet climates all year and contain the greatest diversity of plants and animals. Temperate forests' climates change with warm summers and cold winters, and they receive less rain than rainforests. Wetlands are covered in water most of the year, found along rivers and coasts, and help absorb flood waters and cleanse dirty water. Oceans are the largest ecosystem and most living things inhabit the sunlit, shallow areas near the surface.
Food chains and food webs show how energy passes from one organism to another as they eat each other. A food chain tracks the flow of energy starting with a plant that gets its energy from the sun, then to an animal that eats the plant, then another animal that eats the first animal. A food web is more complex, showing that organisms can be part of multiple food chains as some animals eat different plants and other animals.
This document discusses three categories of animals based on their diets: herbivores, which eat only plants; carnivores, which eat only meat; and omnivores, which eat both plants and meat. Herbivores include deer, rabbits, elephants, turtles, monkeys and giraffes. Carnivores include lions, crocodiles, snakes and eagles. Omnivores include bears, raccoons, pigs, and humans.
An ecosystem is a place where living and non-living things interact, and can exist in various environments from wet to dry and small to large. In an ecosystem, living things depend on each other and non-living things like water, soil and sunlight. Producers like plants make their own food through photosynthesis, while consumers like animals obtain food by eating other organisms, and decomposers like worms break down dead plants and animals and return nutrients to the soil.
This document discusses habitats and the different animals that live in each one. It explains that a habitat provides all the needs for animals to survive, including food, water and shelter. It then identifies the five main habitats as ocean, forest, desert, grasslands, and Antarctica, and provides some example animals for each one. The habitats differ in their characteristics such as being wet or dry, hot or cold, containing trees, grass or snow.
The frog life cycle consists of 5 stages - eggs are laid in water, tadpoles hatch with gills and swim, tadpoles grow legs and lungs and become young frogs, young frogs resemble adult frogs and live on land, frogs undergo complete metamorphosis as each stage looks physically different.
The frog life cycle consists of 5 stages - adult frogs lay eggs in water that hatch into tadpoles with gills, the tadpoles then grow legs and lungs to become young frogs, and finally the young frogs mature into adult frogs that live on land.
Microbial interaction
Microorganisms interacts with each other and can be physically associated with another organisms in a variety of ways.
One organism can be located on the surface of another organism as an ectobiont or located within another organism as endobiont.
Microbial interaction may be positive such as mutualism, proto-cooperation, commensalism or may be negative such as parasitism, predation or competition
Types of microbial interaction
Positive interaction: mutualism, proto-cooperation, commensalism
Negative interaction: Ammensalism (antagonism), parasitism, predation, competition
I. Mutualism:
It is defined as the relationship in which each organism in interaction gets benefits from association. It is an obligatory relationship in which mutualist and host are metabolically dependent on each other.
Mutualistic relationship is very specific where one member of association cannot be replaced by another species.
Mutualism require close physical contact between interacting organisms.
Relationship of mutualism allows organisms to exist in habitat that could not occupied by either species alone.
Mutualistic relationship between organisms allows them to act as a single organism.
Examples of mutualism:
i. Lichens:
Lichens are excellent example of mutualism.
They are the association of specific fungi and certain genus of algae. In lichen, fungal partner is called mycobiont and algal partner is called
II. Syntrophism:
It is an association in which the growth of one organism either depends on or improved by the substrate provided by another organism.
In syntrophism both organism in association gets benefits.
Compound A
Utilized by population 1
Compound B
Utilized by population 2
Compound C
utilized by both Population 1+2
Products
In this theoretical example of syntrophism, population 1 is able to utilize and metabolize compound A, forming compound B but cannot metabolize beyond compound B without co-operation of population 2. Population 2is unable to utilize compound A but it can metabolize compound B forming compound C. Then both population 1 and 2 are able to carry out metabolic reaction which leads to formation of end product that neither population could produce alone.
Examples of syntrophism:
i. Methanogenic ecosystem in sludge digester
Methane produced by methanogenic bacteria depends upon interspecies hydrogen transfer by other fermentative bacteria.
Anaerobic fermentative bacteria generate CO2 and H2 utilizing carbohydrates which is then utilized by methanogenic bacteria (Methanobacter) to produce methane.
ii. Lactobacillus arobinosus and Enterococcus faecalis:
In the minimal media, Lactobacillus arobinosus and Enterococcus faecalis are able to grow together but not alone.
The synergistic relationship between E. faecalis and L. arobinosus occurs in which E. faecalis require folic acid
Embracing Deep Variability For Reproducibility and Replicability
Abstract: Reproducibility (aka determinism in some cases) constitutes a fundamental aspect in various fields of computer science, such as floating-point computations in numerical analysis and simulation, concurrency models in parallelism, reproducible builds for third parties integration and packaging, and containerization for execution environments. These concepts, while pervasive across diverse concerns, often exhibit intricate inter-dependencies, making it challenging to achieve a comprehensive understanding. In this short and vision paper we delve into the application of software engineering techniques, specifically variability management, to systematically identify and explicit points of variability that may give rise to reproducibility issues (eg language, libraries, compiler, virtual machine, OS, environment variables, etc). The primary objectives are: i) gaining insights into the variability layers and their possible interactions, ii) capturing and documenting configurations for the sake of reproducibility, and iii) exploring diverse configurations to replicate, and hence validate and ensure the robustness of results. By adopting these methodologies, we aim to address the complexities associated with reproducibility and replicability in modern software systems and environments, facilitating a more comprehensive and nuanced perspective on these critical aspects.
https://hal.science/hal-04582287
TOPIC OF DISCUSSION: CENTRIFUGATION SLIDESHARE.pptxshubhijain836
Centrifugation is a powerful technique used in laboratories to separate components of a heterogeneous mixture based on their density. This process utilizes centrifugal force to rapidly spin samples, causing denser particles to migrate outward more quickly than lighter ones. As a result, distinct layers form within the sample tube, allowing for easy isolation and purification of target substances.
Mechanics:- Simple and Compound PendulumPravinHudge1
a compound pendulum is a physical system with a more complex structure than a simple pendulum, incorporating its mass distribution and dimensions into its oscillatory motion around a fixed axis. Understanding its dynamics involves principles of rotational mechanics and the interplay between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Compound pendulums are used in various scientific and engineering applications, such as seismology for measuring earthquakes, in clocks to maintain accurate timekeeping, and in mechanical systems to study oscillatory motion dynamics.
SDSS1335+0728: The awakening of a ∼ 106M⊙ black hole⋆Sérgio Sacani
Context. The early-type galaxy SDSS J133519.91+072807.4 (hereafter SDSS1335+0728), which had exhibited no prior optical variations during the preceding two decades, began showing significant nuclear variability in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) alert stream from December 2019 (as ZTF19acnskyy). This variability behaviour, coupled with the host-galaxy properties, suggests that SDSS1335+0728 hosts a ∼ 106M⊙ black hole (BH) that is currently in the process of ‘turning on’. Aims. We present a multi-wavelength photometric analysis and spectroscopic follow-up performed with the aim of better understanding the origin of the nuclear variations detected in SDSS1335+0728. Methods. We used archival photometry (from WISE, 2MASS, SDSS, GALEX, eROSITA) and spectroscopic data (from SDSS and LAMOST) to study the state of SDSS1335+0728 prior to December 2019, and new observations from Swift, SOAR/Goodman, VLT/X-shooter, and Keck/LRIS taken after its turn-on to characterise its current state. We analysed the variability of SDSS1335+0728 in the X-ray/UV/optical/mid-infrared range, modelled its spectral energy distribution prior to and after December 2019, and studied the evolution of its UV/optical spectra. Results. From our multi-wavelength photometric analysis, we find that: (a) since 2021, the UV flux (from Swift/UVOT observations) is four times brighter than the flux reported by GALEX in 2004; (b) since June 2022, the mid-infrared flux has risen more than two times, and the W1−W2 WISE colour has become redder; and (c) since February 2024, the source has begun showing X-ray emission. From our spectroscopic follow-up, we see that (i) the narrow emission line ratios are now consistent with a more energetic ionising continuum; (ii) broad emission lines are not detected; and (iii) the [OIII] line increased its flux ∼ 3.6 years after the first ZTF alert, which implies a relatively compact narrow-line-emitting region. Conclusions. We conclude that the variations observed in SDSS1335+0728 could be either explained by a ∼ 106M⊙ AGN that is just turning on or by an exotic tidal disruption event (TDE). If the former is true, SDSS1335+0728 is one of the strongest cases of an AGNobserved in the process of activating. If the latter were found to be the case, it would correspond to the longest and faintest TDE ever observed (or another class of still unknown nuclear transient). Future observations of SDSS1335+0728 are crucial to further understand its behaviour. Key words. galaxies: active– accretion, accretion discs– galaxies: individual: SDSS J133519.91+072807.4
BIRDS DIVERSITY OF SOOTEA BISWANATH ASSAM.ppt.pptxgoluk9330
Ahota Beel, nestled in Sootea Biswanath Assam , is celebrated for its extraordinary diversity of bird species. This wetland sanctuary supports a myriad of avian residents and migrants alike. Visitors can admire the elegant flights of migratory species such as the Northern Pintail and Eurasian Wigeon, alongside resident birds including the Asian Openbill and Pheasant-tailed Jacana. With its tranquil scenery and varied habitats, Ahota Beel offers a perfect haven for birdwatchers to appreciate and study the vibrant birdlife that thrives in this natural refuge.