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Star that supplies heat and light to Earth
What is the Sun?
This is the process where liquid water turns into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This process explains why puddles disappear after a warm, sunny day.
What is evaporation?
How long does it take sedimentary rocks to form?
What is millions of years?
This Earth system (-sphere) includes all living things.
What is the biosphere?
Body of salt water that contains 71% of Earth’s water
What is the ocean?
This force pulls precipitation toward Earth.
What is gravity?
This is the main energy source that drives the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
These rocks are made from layers of sediment.
This system (-sphere) includes all the water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
Current outdoor conditions
What is weather?
Rising
What is evaporation?
This describes the condition of the atmosphere at one place and time.
What is weather?
What do we call the tiny pieces that pile up to make certain rocks?
What is sediment?
The layer of air and gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The constant movement of water through land, air, oceans, and living things
What is the water cycle?
This part of the water cycle happens when clouds release water as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
Tiny droplets in clouds must become heavy enough for this to occur.
What is precipitation?
Sediment can stack up in many places, but it often settles at the bottom of what?
What are lakes, rivers, or oceans?
The solid part of Earth, including rocks and soil.
What is the geosphere?
Average weather conditions year after year
What is climate?
Water vapor cools down and becomes liquid droplets in clouds during this process.
What is condensation?
Clouds are filled with billions to trillions of these
What are water droplets?
What happens when wind or water moves tiny pieces from one place to another?
What is erosion?
Trees, animals, and bacteria are examples of this sphere.
What is the biosphere?
Most of the water on Earth is heated and then evaporates from which source?
What is the ocean?
What is transpiration?
This describes weather patterns over a long period of time.
What is climate?
What is it called when layers get pressed together?
What is compaction?
Rivers, oceans, glaciers, and groundwater belong to this sphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
In the morning you go outside and see dew on the grass, this is an example of
What is condensation?
This process returns water from land and plants back into the atmosphere.
The main reason water condenses from a gas back into a liquid.
What is cooling?
Sedimentary rocks always start as what?
What are tiny pieces of sediment?
Clouds form in this Earth system.
What is the atmosphere?
Name one of the action words describe what happens when the Sun and the ocean interact?
What is a heating, evaporation, or changes in state?
What is accumulation?
How much more water do we have on Earth now than when the dinosaurs were around?
What is no more/equal amount?
These two things are needed for the creation of oil over millions of years?
What is heat and pressure?
Mountains, sand dunes, and volcanic rocks are part of this sphere.
What is the geosphere?
Give an example of the difference between weather and climate.
Weather is a way of measuring what happens daily in an area and climate is what happens over decades in an area.
Falling
What is precipitation?
The one type of energy from the Sun that causes evaporation.
What is thermal/heat energy?
What is it called when minerals “glue” the layers together?
What is cementation?
When plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen, two spheres interact. Name them.
What are the biosphere and the atmosphere?
At what temperature does water begin to evaporate?
What is above 0 degrees Celsius?
Evaporation leads to this change in state of matter
What is liquid to gas?
Name a type of cloud.
What is cumulus/stratus/cirrus/cumulonimbus?
Name one fossil fuel.
What is coal/oil/natural gas?
When waves break down rocks on the shoreline, three spheres interact. Name them.
What are the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and geosphere?