Earth's systems
A Mixture of gases and particles of matter
What is the atmosphere?
True/false: Water is lost in the water cycle into space.
What is false?
Most of the water on Earth can be found here.
What are oceans?
When the water on land is changed from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?
Living things need these spheres to survive.
What are the hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and geosphere.
This sphere is mostly solid rock
What is the geosphere?
All of the energy in the water cycle comes from here.
What is the sun?
The percentage of water that is salt water.
What is 97%
Water falling from the clouds is any form
What is precipitation?
Water found in aquifers is filtered by this sphere.
What is the geosphere?
This sphere contains all of earths water
What is the hydrosphere?
When water flows over the Earth's surface and gathers in lakes, oceans, and streams.
What is runoff?
What percentage of the Earth's water is usable fresh water?
What is less than 1%?
A natural underground source of fresh water
What is an aquifer?
Humans burning fossil fuels is an interaction between which two systems
biosphere and atmosphere
All of the living organisms make up this sphere
What is the biosphere?
A group of tiny water droplets in the atmosphere.
What is a cloud?
Majority of Earth's freshwater is stored here
What are glaciers?
Water in its gaseous form
Water vapor
Organisms contributing to weathering and erosion is an interaction between which two spheres?
Biosphere and geosphere
In what two spheres is carbon stored in the form of carbon dioxide?
What are the atmosphere and the hydrosphere?
Clouds form when water vapor does this
What is condenses?
List the locations of water from in order from least to greatest: glaciers, groundwater, oceans, surface water
What is surface water, groundwater, glaciers, oceans?
Water exiting a plant through the stomata
What is transpiration?
Volcanic eruption ejects gas and debris into the air is an interaction between which two systems?
Geosphere and atmosphere