TEKS: Chapter 112. Science See All Teacher Resources

112.36.c.15

(15)  Fluid Earth. The student knows that interactions among Earth's five subsystems influence climate and resource availability, which affect Earth's habitability. The student is expected to:

• (A)  describe how changing surface-ocean conditions, including El Niño-Southern Oscillation, affect global weather and climate patterns;

• (B)  investigate evidence such as ice cores, glacial striations, and fossils for climate variability and its use in developing computer models to explain present and predict future climates;

• (C)  quantify the dynamics of surface and groundwater movement such as recharge, discharge, evapotranspiration, storage, residence time, and sustainability;

• (D)  explain the global carbon cycle, including how carbon exists in different forms within the five subsystems and how these forms affect life; and

• (E)  analyze recent global ocean temperature data to predict the consequences of changing ocean temperature on evaporation, sea level, algal growth, coral bleaching, hurricane intensity, and biodiversity.