Chapter 24, Problem 7CTQ

a.

Summary Introduction

To outline:

The modes of cycling water through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

Introduction:

The Earth is a system consisting of “four major components” that interact with one another. The four layers are the hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere.

Hydrosphere is the system consisting “water that surrounds the Earth”.

The atmosphere consists of “layer of gases surrounded the Earth”. The atmosphere provides breathing to all living organisms to breathe and protection to the Earth.

Lithosphere defined as the “surface of the Earth” that causes the formation of continents and ocean floor.

b.

Summary Introduction

To explain:

Whether changing weather patterns will alter the normal habitat range of environmental microbes today.

Introduction:

Bacteria are ubiquitous they are present in incredible environmental conditions. For example; the bacterium is “Pseudomonas syringae”, which lives in clouds and causes the induction of precipitation. These bacteria are found in the first stages of a “hailstone”, and work as nucleating particles that collect water droplets. These aggregations or collections of water droplets then fall on the Earth in the form of rain.