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http://www.sciences360.com/index.php/what-are-igneous-rocks-used-for-2-13533/
Metamorphic Rocks - How do humans use this resource?
http://www.sciences360.com/index.php/facts-metamorphic-rocks-954/
THE EARTH’S SURFACE
EXPERT GROUP 2: Member 2 - Judy Carling

Sedimentary Rocks - How do humans use this resource?
http://www.sciences360.com/index.php/sedimentary-rocks-are-important-and-have-a-wide-variety-of-uses-961/
Igneous Rocks - How do humans use this resource?
http://www.sciences360.com/index.php/what-are-igneous-rocks-used-for-2-13533/
Metamorphic Rocks - How do humans use this resource?
THE EARTH’S SURFACE
EXPERT GROUP 2: Member 2 - Judy Carling

The Rock Cycle:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0602/es0602page03.cfm?chapter_no=investigation
Sedimentary Rocks - How do humans use this resource?
http://www.sciences360.com/index.php/sedimentary-rocks-are-important-and-have-a-wide-variety-of-uses-961/
THE EARTH’S SURFACE
EXPERT GROUP 2: Member 2 - Judy Carling

Atmospheric sustainability is affected by human carbon release (fossil fuel burning and deforestation). Atmospheric composition changes contribute to global warming. This will affect weather conditions the food supplies through crop growth and environmental changes due to climate change worldwide.
Tectonic Plates and Earthquake predictions: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/plate_tectonics/rift_man.php
The Rock Cycle:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0602/es0602page03.cfm?chapter_no=investigation
THE EARTH’S SURFACE
EXPERT GROUP 2: Member 2 - Judy Carling

Composition is roughly 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.09% argon, 0.03% carbon dioxide, with traces of neon, helium, methane, krypton, hydrogen, xenon and ozone.
Atmospheric sustainability is affected by human carbon release (fossil fuel burning and deforestation). Atmospheric composition changes contribute to global warming. This will affect weather conditions the food supplies through crop growth and environmental changes due to climate change worldwide.
Tectonic Plates and Earthquake predictions: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/plate_tectonics/rift_man.php
THE EARTH’S SURFACE
EXPERT GROUP 2: Member 2 - Judy Carling

Changes to the Earth's surface::
Allison Warham (apologies for format. Wiki formatting is not my friend today)
The Earth’s Surface
Characteristics
warming. All living organisms and their life cycles are only sustainable within
the Earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. All systems interact with
each other.
Lithosphere
This is the outer solid part of Earth, Earth’s crust

Changes to the Earth's surface::
Expert Group 1: Member 2 Allison Warham
The Earth’s Surface
Characteristics
Human Impact on Sustainability
Biosphere
Includes all living organisms and dead organic matter
The biosphere interacts with other ‘spheres’ on Earth e.g. photosynthesis
Organisms live everywhere on the land mass and throughout the oceans. At higher altitudes, UV radiation and low temperatures do not support life.
Carbon
release from fossil fuel burning and deforestation contributes to global
warming. All living organisms and their life cycles are only sustainable within
the Earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. All systems interact with
and rely on the sustainability of each other.
Lithosphere
This is the outer solid part of Earth, Earth’s crust
It is composed of tectonic plates that glide over the upper mantle
The oceanic crust is thinnest. The mountains are the thickest part
Deforestation and land pollution contribute to erosion of the lithosphere. This affects future ability to sustain plant life (root structure footing) then atmosphere (oxygenation through photosynthesis).
Hydrosphere
This is the total amount of water on Earth
It includes liquid, vapour and ice
Water moves through the hydrosphere in a cycle – the water cycle
Human impact on the atmosphere (global warming) impacts on the hydrosphere by affecting the water cycle (weather patterns and rainfall). Water pollution also affects the biosphere then in turn the lithosphere and atmosphere (plant life and oxygen content in the air).
Atmosphere
This is the air around Earth
Atmospheric gasses scatter blue light more than other wavelengths
Composition is roughly 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.09% argon, 0.03% carbon dioxide, with traces of neon, helium, methane, krypton, hydrogen, xenon and ozone.
Atmospheric sustainability is affected by human carbon release (fossil fuel burning and deforestation). Atmospheric composition changes contribute to global warming. This will affect weather conditions the food supplies through crop growth and environmental changes due to climate change worldwide.
THE EARTH’S SURFACE
EXPERT GROUP 2: Member 2 - Judy Carling

*Group 1, EGM 3: Changes to the Earth's surface by Kath Kypr
* {Group task Earth & space.docx}