Albedo
Check Your Thinking: How does the capacity of snow and ice to reflect sunlight impact the Earth’s energy budget? Albedo is a measurement that indicates the amount of reflection of solar radiation by an object. Latin comes into play again here. Albus is Latin for white, which you will recognize from the English word […]
Earth’s Systems
It is helpful to think of the Earth as being composed of various large, intricate systems that interact with each other in a manner that keeps things in balance (and, as a result, makes it possible for humans and other organisms to survive on the Earth). Check Your Thinking: Do you know the names of […]
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