WHY DOES OUR

EARTH LOOK
BLUE FROM
THE SPACE?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/03/04/why-does-earth-appear-blue-from-space/
 THE
HYDROSPHER
E
What is hydrosphere?
◦ All of Earth’s water including gas, solid and liquid.
◦ Salt and fresh water.
◦ Mots of fresh water are stored in the form of
glacier and in the ice cap around North and South
Poles .
Did you know that Pacific Ocean is
the largest ocean, comprising 46%
of the total area of all oceans.
The Water Cycle
• Sun evaporates the water to evaporate or
ice to sublimate.
• Water vapor rises and eventually condensed
due to the decrease of the pressure and the
temperatures.
• Water vapor falls to the ground and the
cycle repeats.
MAJOR OCEAN CURRENTS
 What are:
Evaporation, Condensation
and Evaporation?
Major Ocean Current
◦ Oceans are very important in weather dynamics because the occupy the largest
water proportion on Earth.
◦ Gulf stream is an Atlantic current that transport warm water from Gulf pf
Mexico to the North Atlantic region.
◦ It act like “conveyer belt’ that transport energy from warmer part of the world
to the colder parts.
◦ The cold ocean current from the North Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, and the
Antartics flow toward the equator and become warmer.
Cause of Ocean Currents
• Ocean water that is near the equator
absorbs the direct, intense solar energy.
• Since warm water is les dense than cold,
the water move northward or southward
at the surface.
• Replaced by cold water below starting a
convection current.
Effect of Ocean Currents
◦ The Gulf Stream warming the coast of Norway and Iceland.
◦ The ocean current that reaches Peru in western South America is cold therefore the air is dry.
◦ Desert Atacama is the desert beside Pacific ocean.
◦ Along the western side of the huge Pacific Ocean, the warm waters evaporates forming huge cloud that
produce large quantities of precipitation.
◦ Brazil rain forest.
What is a rain forest??
Clouds: How do Clouds Form?

◦ Convective clouds: are

produced when air near the
ground absorbs energy
from heated surfaces
(ocean, lakes, asphalt,
concrete and dirt) becomes
and less dense, and rises in
the atmosphere.
◦ Frontal clouds: are produced where
the leading edge, or front, of a
large moving mass of air meets
another mass of air at a different
temperature.
◦ Orographic clouds: are formed
when air moves up a mountain,
expand at the lower pressure and
cools.
 Classifying Clouds
Cumulus clouds:
◦ have a billowing, rounded shape.
◦ Formed as a result of convection currents, orographic lifting.
◦ Usually indicate unstable weather.

Stratus cloud
• Flattened layered shape.
• Indicates stable weather.