What is the hydrosphere and why is it important?

Earth is a system of systems.

Explore the energy and matter cycles found within the Earth System. 

Background information on soil moisture.

This investigation is part of the NASA: Mission Geography Module "What are the causes and consequences of climate change?" that guides students through explorations in climatic variability and evidence for global climate change. 

Using a “fun-size” bag of rainbow bite-sized candies learners will place different colored candies on a diagram of the Sun-Earth system to show different space weather conditions during solar minimum and solar maximum.