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Tsunamis are enormous and destructive ocean waves triggered by earthquakes under the seafloor.

Hydrosphere: During tsunamis, saltwater from the oceans rushes the land. This pollutes groundwater beneath the soil. Groundwater is supposed to be freshwater as it supplies drinking water to 51% of the U.S. population and 99% of the rural population.

Geosphere: Tsunamis wash away and displace a lot of the soil and rock they come in contact with once they reach land.

Biosphere: Just like all natural disasters, Tsunamis kill many humans and animals when they hit land. They beach many land animals and leave the land flooded, ultimately drowning plants.

The Atmosphere is not impacted by Tsunamis.

An understanding of environmental science can aid in the handling of natural disasters because it can better prepare people by making them knowledgeable on what exactly they’re dealing with and more importantly how to prepare for it if they cannot avoid it.

To create a sustainable future, most importantly, we must do things to reduce climate change. Not only is climate change negatively impacting the biosphere, but it is a factor in the increase of natural disasters. We need to do many things such as:

-Recycling

-Reducing plastic and water waste

-Ride a bicycle to reduce air pollution from vehicles, etc.

1. How do earth systems affect each other? In a natural example, for example, Water in the lake (hydrosphere) seeps into the cliff walls behind the dam, becoming groundwater (geosphere), or evaporating into the air (atmosphere).

2. How can an understanding of environmental science aid in handling natural disasters? Everyday life can be disturbed by natural disasters it is very important to study them in order to improve their prediction, prevention, to allay their consequences.

3. What efforts can we make to create a sustainable future? The efforts we can make is to keep putting out safety awareness about natural disasters and to educate everyone about what causes natural disasters.

1) How do earth systems affect each other?

The atmosphere gives water to the hydrosphere. Geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere help creatures live by providing land, water, air, heat, and gas.

2) How can an understanding of environmental science aid in handling natural disasters?

If we understand how the environment works than it’ll be easier to find ways of preventing natural disasters.

3) What efforts can we make to create a sustainable future?

We can try to reduce the damage we’ve caused to the earth by reducing the pollution and cleaning up our trash.

All of the earth systems help one another function. Such as the Atmosphere and Biosphere work together to make photosynthesis using the oxygen from the atmosphere and the plants from the biosphere. The atmosphere is also the main source of transferring radiation and providing the geosphere with heat. The Geosphere has water running through it on several of its layers. Such as rivers and oceans are formed in the ground. The geosphere can also be broken down by organisms in the biosphere. If one knows how each of the systems affect each other, they can find out the weaknesses of each. Such as knowing what to do when a hurricane happens because we know how strong the wind can be on certain parts of the biosphere. In order to create a sustainable future, we can make an effort into living the way we want while trying to make the earth a better place to live on. We could find ways to prevent these natural disasters that are caused by the things we do like our overuse of fossil fuels. Based on what I’ve found, sinkholes are very interesting, yet underrated. I never thought that one could form just by water building up and breaking the surface layer of the Geosphere. I also didn’t know about all the other spheres in could effect. Such as the biosphere through its risk in damaging plants and other living organisms along its way.

The earth systems are parts that work together as a whole and involves a flow of matter in different parts. The atmosphere (air), the hydrosphere (water), The geosphere (land), and Biosphere (life) all have a connection since they all have their certain role. Whether it’s a positive or negative outcome some may vary depending on the climate and weather. NO, they are no the same thing. Well, environmental science can help to have a better understanding of natural disasters. Such as geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. To be able to learn more about each one and have a better understanding of why each role plays a part in natural disasters. I believe that as a whole we can maintain a healthy future. We just have to take action instead of reposting pictures of the world dying. We clearer see that but by reposting a picture won’t solve the problem. It’s our turn to make a change. Yes, we can start off little by little. My reaction to the finding is very interesting because I already knew how hard Tsunami can hit but I learned how much it can affect the people who receive them. I personally can’t prepare myself mentally and stability because I’ve never been in the situation but for those who have is very hard since it is a process and they don’t know where to go half of the time because it’s such a small community depending on where it is.

An earthquake is a sudden movement of the Earth’s lithosphere (its crust and upper mantle), which is caused by the release of built-up stresses within rocks along geological faults, or by the movement of magma in volcanic areas. Smaller earthquakes occur frequently, but annually, only as many as 18–20 reach a magnitude above Ms 7. Approximately 40 disastrous earthquakes have occurred since the end of the twentieth century, and the total death toll is nearly 1.7 million. This number is about 50% of all victims of natural disasters. Most earthquakes (80%) occur in the oceans, mainly in the subduction zones. Earthquakes occurring in such regions have a relatively large magnitude and they are also deep. These earthquakes can cause tsunamis.

Like other disasters, earthquakes and tsunamis can be sudden, seriously destructive, and create long-lasting social, environmental, and economic problems. https://www.natural-hazards-and-earth-system-sciences.net/

1. How do earth systems affect each other?

The water cycle. Rainwaters the plants so it can grow. Plants also use photosynthesis that takes light energy an turn it into chemical energy.

2. How can an understanding of environmental science aid in handling natural disasters?

Understanding the cause of a natural disaster, can us help know how to stop or slow the process of it happening.

3. What efforts can we make to create a sustainable future?

We can fix the problems by recycling and stop using toxic chemicals that can hurt the atmosphere.

Droughts can occur due to either natural or human-induced factors. Droughts aren’t a type of natural disaster that is physically destructive. This kind of disaster does more economical damage than anything. Droughts are the type of disaster that involved below-average precipitation and water supply shortage over long periods of time. Droughts often lead to the extreme scarcity of food and have led to the death of millions of people. The reason why lower levels of precipitation aid the occurrence of drought is because little to no rain means that the soil will dry out and that will eventually lead to crop failure.

Each earth systems affects each other by each system giving off energy in order for each one to operate correctly. For example, the atmosphere consists of air including with elements such as carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. By the elements being present in the biosphere, they can be absorbed for all the living forms to use such as animals breathing in oxygen and releasing the carbon dioxide back into the air. Then, the biosphere benefits from the hydrosphere of the system consisting of water and water being an essential natural resource that helps make plants grow. By the plants growing the geosphere is healthy by the soil being fertilized. Also, by understanding the earth systems and why they are important benefits our understanding when we face an issue in our environment that could be simply solved by our own knowledge from the environmental science class. For example, in the US we face some seasons in which we get a lot of rain that causes flooding and we could solve this by creating devices that can capture the water for another source to help the environment than flooding homes. Furthermore, to help the future be sustainable we could focus more on climate change in how it’s affecting all living features and we need to create more action plans towards making beneficial changes in our daily routines that cause conflicts. For instance, when our factories are creating objects they are polluting the air and this causes our air quality to be unhealthy and it affects us humans health plus doesn’t benefit the plants that cause them to decay. Then, with humans, we develop health issues. In conclusion, in our findings, we realized that our natural disaster of tornadoes affects most of the earth systems in areas that receive windy and thunderstom conditions.