EARTHSS 21- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Earth System Science
• Course: EARTHSS 21
• Professor: Julie Ferguson

Document Summary

Study guide for ess 21 final spring 2016. The science that studies the whole earth as a system of many interacting parts and focuses on the changes between those parts. What are the 4 major reservoirs and which contains the cryosphere. Hydrosphere (contains the cryosphere), biosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere. The elements of the earth system containing water in its frozen state. Snow, lake and river ice, permafrost and seasonally frozen ice, sea ice, glaciers, ice caps, ice shelves and ice sheets. How quickly do parts of the cryosphere respond to change and why. (cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:396)espo(cid:374)ds to (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges the (cid:395)ui(cid:272)kest the(cid:374) (cid:396)i(cid:448)e(cid:396) a(cid:374)d lake i(cid:272)e sea i(cid:272)e gla(cid:272)ie(cid:396)s a(cid:374)d i(cid:272)e (cid:272)aps f(cid:396)oze(cid:374) g(cid:396)ou(cid:374)d i(cid:272)e sheet (cid:373)a(cid:396)gi(cid:374)s, i(cid:272)e shel(cid:448)es, i(cid:272)e sheets. Where are different parts of the cryosphere found on earth. A very rough idea of how parts of the cryosphere have been changing and how this affects the earth system and humans.