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Earth's Resources
100
What is the Hydrosphere?
The water part of the Earth including lakes, rivers, oceans, ground water, and atmospheric water.
100
What is the Atmosphere?
The gaseous envelope around the Earth.
100
What is Surface Runoff?
Water moving along the surface of the ground in rivers and streams.
100
What is Evaporation?
The phase change in which accumulated water evaporates and enters the air.
100
Where does nearly all of Earth's external energy come from?
Our Sun.
200
What is the Lithosphere?
The very thin solid outer crust and the rigid materials just below the biosphere.
200
What is the Biosphere?
The parts of the Earth containing living organsims and the remains of living organisms
200
What is Subsurface runoff?
Water moving underground.
200
What is Accumulation?
Water collecting in lakes, ponds, oceans, etc.
200
What percentage of the energy from the Sun actually hits Earth?
70%, 30% is reflected immediately.
300
What is the Geosphere?
The solid portion of the Earth, including crustal plates and the various interior layers.
300
What is Thermodynamics?
The study of the movement of energy
300
What is Precipitation?
When condensed water falls to Earth.
300
What are greenhouse gasses?
Gasses that allow small wavelengths like visible and ultraviolet to go through them but absorb larger wavelengths like infrared.
300
What is the difference between Biotic and Abiotic?
Biotic means having to do with living or once living materials.
Abiotic means having to do with the nonliving materials of Earth.
400
What is Radiation?
Energy moving in electromagnetic waves.
400
What is Convection?
What matter containing energy moves from one place to another.
400
What is an Ecosytem?
A complex system or unit of all the interactions and relationships between and within both the biotic and abiotic environment.
400
What is Condensation?
When water vapor converts back into a liquid and forms clouds.
400
Where are the most commons sources of internal Earth energy?
The liquid metal core, radioactive elements in the geosphere, etc.
500
Come up to the board and draw all of the spheres of the Earth.
Remember, this drawing doesn't have it but the Lithosphere is between the biosphere to geosphere.
500
What is Conduction?
When heat energy is transmitted through collisions between atoms or molecules.
500
What is Ecology?
Study of the relationship between and within the biotic and abiotic world.
500
What is Transpiration?
Water taken up from plants being releases as water vapor into the air.
500
Why is it much harder to study sources of internal Earth energy than external sources of Earth energy?
Because humans live on the very outer surface of Earth's crust and cannot travel very far into the crust.