Earth Processes: Matter Cycling and Energy Flowing

In this series of games, students learn about the relationship between lock cycle, water cycle, and the flow of sun and geothermal energy. Learning objectives based on the NGSS and state standards, as demonstrated in the study, are the participation of students in the classroom and improvement of academic performance

Energy flows around the earth in various ways from various places. The main energy source of the global ecosystem is the interior of the sun and the earth. What are closely related to these energy sources are the two main geological processes, rock circulation and water circulation.

Both processes are moved by circulation of substances such as rocks, magma, water, ice, gas, living things and their debris. In the rock cycle, rocks and substances undergo ridge, weathering, erosion, sedimentation, melting, crystallization, and metamorphism as they move between the surface and the inner layer of the Earth. In the circulation of water, the particles of water undergo evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and flow.

As matter passes through these cycles it may change physically and chemically. Physical changes usually involve changes in the state of matter such as melting, crystallization, evaporation, condensation. Deformation is also a physical change such as folding, defects, destruction, physical weathering, transportation and sedimentation. Chemical changes include chemical reactions due to rock, water, air contact, such as chemical weathering process.

Solar energy mainly promotes processes occurring on the surface of the earth, such as water circulation, wind, weathering, erosion, and growth. Energy from the interior of the earth is responsible for internal processes such as volcanism, metamorphism and plate tectonics.

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Establish a model describing the substances and energy flows of the biological and abiotic parts of the ecosystem. Build an argument that supports empirical evidence that changes in the physical or biological factors of the ecosystem affect the population. Evaluate competitive design solutions to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem services. *

In ecosystems, energy is constantly flowing; energy in the system is stored with all substances. Energy flows like light from heat, material is recycled. This is also called energy flow and recycled material. Light energy (also called photons) is converted into chemical energy within organic molecules by intracellular processes (including photosynthesis and respiration) and eventually converted to heat.

One of the most important flow where regeneration culture has to adjust its energy consumption pattern is the flow of energy from the sun. This energy first hits the Earth in the form of sunlight and solar radiation, and then begins to promote other energy cycles (such as the flow of the main wind system) which in turn will affect flow and waves. We must link the flow of energy in the human system to these natural, renewable energy flows eventually coming from the sun. Also, we must redesign the chemical industry and material culture to rely entirely on the flow of plant-based material resources.