Permafrost

Permafrost Remember Mood Rings? They were rings that change colors depending on your emotions. At least that’s what they wanted us to think. Mood Rings are really thermochroic liquid crystals that color changes based on the temperature of the finger. Something that seems so permanent like the color of a crystal is subject to change just by the mere change of the temperature of its environment. Some environments are also rigid and structured just like the crystals in Mood Rings, but yet, are also subject to change depending on the temperature just like the colors of the rings. Instead of the color changing, in this case, the ground and structure changes. The roads begin to slope forming hills and the homes that once seemed immobile suddenly moved and no longer have the same location. Now the infrastructure of a town starts to collapse all because of the changing of temperature in an environment, but how?…

Essay Subject: Ecosystems and Environmental Studies How Will Human Innovation be affected by Melting Permafrost? Name: Sade Eubanks Session: May 2016 Candidate Number: 003370-0023 Word Count: 3277 School: Walter Hines Page High School Table of Contents: Abstract……………………….3 Introduction…………………..5 Background………………….6 Human Innovation…………..9 Conclusion…………………14 Work Citation……………...16 ABSTRACT Rising temperatures has been an ever growing problem overall for the past half…

Permafrost Thawing According to National Geographic, “Permafrost is a permanently frozen layer below the Earth 's surface. It consists of soil, gravel, and sand, usually bound together by ice. Permafrost usually remains at or below 0C (32F) for at least two years”. The most frequent places you will find permafrost is in the Northern Hemisphere, mostly found in Siberia, northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Because of the longevity of the lasting permafrost, a plethora of infrastructure has…

The climate change is a threat to an Inuit community who are primarily whale hunters of the Arctic region in Northern Canada. Because the climate change might greatly influence the ecosystem, their cultures (social impacts), and economy. First, the climate change will greatly interrupt the ecosystem in the Arctic region, because of the permafrost. Including warmer ocean currents that was caused by climate change. When the active layer is decomposed and reaching too much, because of the…

Pacific coast region of Russia) [8]. Climate model projections indicate decreases in the duration of snow cover of 10 to 20% over most of the Arctic by 2050 and Scandinavia will experience the most loss (around 30 to 40%) [2]. 2.4 Temperature Average Arctic temperatures have increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years according to the IPCC. In 2010, air temperatures in the Arctic were 4° C warmer than the 1968-1996 reference period, according to NOAA. Temperatures…

A Tundra is a biome with little tree growth and low temperature. The Tundra is the coldest of all of the biomes it’s temperature is between 60 to 75 Degrees latitude. This biome is best noted for its snowy landscape and extreme low temperatures. Tundras are covered in snow for most of the year until the summer. The summer in the Tundras are cool in temperature. Lots of the snow melts into soggy marshes and bogs. The daytime temperatures during the summer rise to about 12 °C (54 °F) but my drop…

Table of Contents: Page 1: Title Page 2: Biome Description Page 3: Climate and Location Page 4: Dominant plants and their adaptation Page 5: Dominant animals and their adaption Page 6: Other abiotic factors Page 7: Problems and threats Page 8: Biome Acronym Page 9: Picture of biome Page 10: Food Chain Page 11: Biome vocabulary Page 12: Bibliography  Title: The Tundra Biome Biome Description: The tundra is a biome known for its harsh temperatures and barren land. The soil is always frozen,…

If a tornado powerful enough happened and depleted the soil, a pioneer plant like lichen would begin to grow after a very long recovery period. Then, soil would begin to form and plants would start to grow again. Lastly, after hundreds or thousands of years, the soil would be back and animals would return to the tundra. A major problem is threatening the Arctic tundra currently, it’s permafrost is melting. This may seem insignificant, but the permafrost has copious amounts of carbon within it.…

are also affected by the clearing of land releasing greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere causing the temperature to increase and melt the ice”(Hohensee). Melting permafrost plays a large role in the melting of the ice caps. The melted permafrost causes the ground to become soft and causes the ice above to melt and fall into the ocean. The increase in global temperature causes chunks of ice from the caps melt and fall into the ocean causing a rise in sea levels affecting buildings and…

Climate changing is affecting the way 5.2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives are living, 1.1 million of them on reservations or native lands. As these indigenous people are already profoundly poor, the fluctuations climate change brings, hits them even harder. Food and drink which are simple for us to get, is not for them. Food like salmon, shellfish, marine mammals, and the conventional crops are becoming more difficult to produce or find, which hurts these people economically,…