{"id":945,"date":"2021-01-28T21:07:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T21:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkinsights.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2021-01-29T19:08:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T19:08:26","slug":"fire-and-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inkinsights.com\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"Fire and Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I want to share a small story before to write on actual\ntopic, around 5-6 years ago after my work in the evening I was sitting in my\nlocality and watching children playing but then one young boy 12-13 years old\ncame up to me and we spoke a bit. But then he asked a question \u2013 \u201cLook dark\nclouds in the sky so will it be a heavy rainfall?\u201d I thought a bit and answered\nto him \u2013 \u201cLooks like yes it may rain heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This small conversation made me think that if I could have a concrete answer then I could have answered him in a better way so he might have right education for his curiosity. Because whenever such kind of questions being asked then we usually use phrases like \u201cClimate Change or Global Warming\u201d for all answers related to CLIMATE.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe that many times children ask many intelligent questions and we can make them educate by giving intelligent answers, though they study all topics in school but as a responsible guardian\/guide\/parent we can try to impart some education from our side too. I remember when I used to teach street children mostly were from family where abuse and single parenthood, they didn\u2019t have resources to study or could manage to go to school. When I taught them at first it was hard because their language had many bad words but later they showed the real interest in studies and I taught them Geography and English. Some of them even learnt to write their name and knew the surrounding countries around the border of India. That gave me immense pleasure and joy that my effort of imparting some values in them will make the YOUTH of country strong, they might spread this education further to other children in their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t want to digress from the original topic but this story and my thoughts make me always motivated to write in an educational way so children and even adults could enhance their knowledge and could give to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us start our\ntopic \u2013 FIRE and SNOW.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have we ever noticed that we always speak about the AIR<\/strong> we breathe in Atmosphere? But do we really understand the ATMOSPHERE<\/strong> so to find the answer first we will understand the SPHERES of EARTH.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earth is classified in to four categories \u2013 Land, Water,\nLiving Things & Air. These four categories are called \u201cSPHERES\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 4 spheres for EARTH<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Lithosphere – Land<\/li>
  2. Hydrosphere \u2013 Water<\/li>
  3. Biosphere \u2013 Living Things<\/li>
  4. Atmosphere \u2013 Air<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Lithosphere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It contains the cold, solid part of land of planet\u2019s crust\nor surface, the semi-solid land beneath the crust and the liquid land near the\ncentre of the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Hydrosphere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It contains all solid, liquid and gaseous elements of\nplanet, it ranges from many kilometres inside the Lithosphere and upward about\n12 kilometres into the atmosphere. A small portion of water in the hydrosphere\nis pure and rest almost 97% of Earth\u2019s water is salty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Biosphere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It contains the living beings of planet includes\nmicroorganisms, plants and animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Atmosphere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is the term which we talked about when I mentioned about AIR. It contains all the air on the Earth. It ranges from 1 m below the Earth\u2019s surface and more than 10000 kms above the planet\u2019s surface. The upper portion of the atmosphere protects the living beings of Biosphere from the SUN\u2019s ultraviolet radiations. When the air temperature of lower portion of atmosphere gets heated or cooled then the WEATHER<\/strong> also changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To understand our topic we need to go deeper in the sub layers of ATMOSPHERE.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Atmosphere is sub divided based on the temperature and this\nvaries with the height from the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Troposphere \u2013<\/strong> It is the lowest part of the atmosphere where all commercial jet aircrafts and birds fly; it contains 75% of all the air in the atmosphere including clouds, rain, and snow.<\/li>
    2. Stratosphere \u2013<\/strong> It is the layer which has direct exposure to ultraviolet radiation of the SUN thus it has the OZONE which protects us from UV radiation.<\/li>
    3.  Mesosphere \u2013<\/strong> In this layer the temperature is the lowest up to -90 degrees Celsius.<\/li>
    4. Thermosphere and Ionosphere \u2013<\/strong> In this layer again the temperature increases because of direct absorption of UV rays.<\/li>
    5. Exosphere \u2013<\/strong> This layer contains mainly oxygen and hydrogen atoms.<\/li>
    6. Magnetosphere \u2013<\/strong> Due to the gravitational pull this layer attracts electrons and protons which create like a belt around the globe. It is a magnetic spiral.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Measurements above Earth\u2019s surface \u2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n