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Earth and Space Grade Seven


 * 1. || Explain the biogeochemical cycles which move materials between the lithosphere (land), hydrosphere (water) and atmosphere (air). ( [|ORC Resources] ) ||
 * 2. || Explain that Earth's capacity to absorb and recycle materials naturally (e.g., smoke, smog, sewage) can change the environmental quality depending on the length of time involved (e.g. global warming). ( [|ORC Resources] ) ||
 * 3. || Describe the water cycle and explain the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and hydrosphere. ( [|ORC Resources] ) ||
 * 4. || Analyze data on the availability of fresh water that is essential for life and for most industrial and agricultural processes. Describe how rivers, lakes and groundwater can be depleted or polluted becoming less hospitable to life and even becoming unavailable or unsuitable for life. ( [|ORC Resources] ) ||
 * 5. || Make simple weather predictions based on the changing cloud types associated with frontal systems. ( [|ORC Resources] ) ||
 * 6. || Determine how weather observations and measurements are combined to produce weather maps and that data for a specific location at one point in time can be displayed in a station model. ( [|ORC Resources] ) ||
 * 7. || Read a weather map to interpret local, regional and national weather. ( [|ORC Resources] ) ||
 * 8. || Describe how temperature and precipitation determine climatic zones (biomes) (e.g., desert, grasslands, forests, tundra, alpine). ( [|ORC Resources] ) ||
 * 9. || Describe the connection between the water cycle and weather-related phenomenon (e.g., tornadoes, floods, droughts, hurricanes). ( [|ORC Resources] ) ||