Energy Inputs

Cards (6)

  • External
    Suns unevenly warms the Earth’s Surface
    Uneven heating drives atmospheric circulation influencing weather
    Links to weathering/erosion part
  • Internal
    Hear from radioactive decay and energy from Earth’s formation
  • The rock cycle is driven by interactions between plate tectonics and the hydrological cycle
  • Gravity
    Rain falls down to the Earth’s Surface
    Moons gravity results in tides
    Dense lithosphere is subducted against less dense lithosphere
  • Catatrophism
    Biblical view that all landforms created by sudden catastrophic events
  • Gradualism
    Huttons idea that geological processes operated very slowly and given enough time could create all the landforms he observed. Did not fit with the view of the bible