My group and I choose tsunami as our natural disaster. We choose to talk about tsunamis because we felt like we knew more information on others. Each natural disaster can effect each of the earth spheres in different ways, but in my opinion tsunami have to be one of the worst. Tsunamis are huge waves that crash on to land and destroy everything. My group and I displayed the information we learned on a weebly to be able to have a presentation. weebly link: https://envirosci2019.weebly.com

My group took the time to do research about sinkholes and how they affect the cryosphere, the biosphere, the geosphere, and the atmosphere. Through this, we learned that sinkholes can be man-made and or natural. and that they are caused by erosion mostly to the earth.

People today alter our environment by smoking and using lots of fossil fuels destroying trees which are the animals habitats, and w continue altering them by carelessly using energy. Sustainability is to see how far we can go or continue at the same rate or level. When looking at the ecological footprint for us I believe continuing on the way we are now is a huge problem because the increase of fossil fuels used, animals going extinct because we endanger them, destroying the trees when they are most resourceful, which are very bad events we should not go on with. Each system is described as the earth, the water, the life(bio), and the air (atmosphere). Various forms of energy are kinetic which is energy that moves, potential energy is when something is in place or poised until it is changed, chemical energy which is used when we eat, gravitational energy which is also known as the earths gravity. Ecological systems depend on many of these energies because of the basic but enormous roles they play like creating more land or recycling what we can't and etc., Scientist use the many tools and research they gathered in order to provide for the complex systems, and finally natural systems change over time and space when others affect most of the surround things like the environment and such

We created a power point for our visual as we researched our natural disaster. The natural disaster we researched were sinkholes. A sinkhole is a natural disaster where a giant hole forms in the ground. It’s usually caused by collapse in the surface layer, erosion, or underground water. Sinkholes can be natural or man made. Sinkholes affect the hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere. From this we learned that all of the Earth systems are connected. If something bad happens to one it probably affects another one in a bad way. Our understanding of environmental science can aid in handling natural disasters because we know how the earth and its systems work and why these things happen. From that we can figure out what to do when these things happen. To create a sustainable future, we should cut down on trash that's created, we can continue to find different modes of transportation and keep our underground updated by fixing things like water mains.