Our planet can be seen as a ‘system’ of interacting parts or ‘spheres’: the hydr

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Our planet can be seen as a ‘system’ of interacting parts or ‘spheres’: the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and geosphere (or lithosphere). Although we will study each of these spheres independently, they are continuously interacting.

The website http://www.cotf.edu/ete/ESS/ESSmain.html shows for example how a particular event, forest fires at Yellowstone in 1988, influenced the various spheres and also examples of interactions between spheres.

Question 1:

Consider (& research) a recent event: the Fukushima, Japan, earthquake and radiation spill from nuclear reactor in 2011. Make a list of resulting event <----> sphere interactions and sphere <----> sphere interactions.

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List of resulting events:

The international reaction

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