Earth's Atmosphere
Earth's Hydrosphere
Atmosphere and Hydrosphere Interaction
Fill-In-The-Blank
True or False
100

This is the distance above sea level.

What is altitude?

100

examples of this are runoff from factories, pesticides, oil spills, fertilizers

What is water pollution?

100
This is the transfer of energy through space. Examples are visible light and ultraviolet rays.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
100

Earth's __________ is composed mostly of nitrogen and oxygen.

What is the atmosphere?

100

A river delta typically forms at the ________ of a river where it enters a standing body of water like an ocean or sea.

What is mouth?

200
This is a gas that absorbs ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
What is ozone?
200
This is the amount of water in the atmosphere that is freshwater.
What is 3%?
200
This is the transfer of energy by the flow of gases or liquids.
What is convection?
200

This term describes the original point from which a river flows, often found high up in mountains or hills.

What is source?

200
The Sun's energy reaches Earth by convection currents.
What is false? By electromagnetic radiation.
300

This layer of the atmosphere absorbs most of the sun's UV (ultraviolet rays)

Stratosphere

300
This is the term to describe the measure of the amount of salt that is in seawater.
What is salinity?
300
This is the physical change from the gas state to the liquid state.
What is condensation?
300

_________________ is the trapping of heat by Earth's atmosphere allowing life to exist.

What is greenhouse effect?

300
Conduction is the transfer of energy by the flow of gases or liquids.
What is false? Convection.
400

What is the order of the layers of the atmosphere starting closest to Earth?

Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere

400
This is water that is beneath the Earth's surface. It is where much of our drinking water comes from.
What is groundwater?
400
This is the physical change from the liquid state to the gas state.
What is evaporation?
400

Famous for plunging waterfalls, cascading rapids, and a distinct lack of broad floodplains in uplifted topography, I am a __________. 

 

What is Mature river?

400

This stage of a river is characterized by steep V-shaped valleys and rapid waterfalls: Young river.

What is true?

500
These circular movements of air in the atmosphere are driven by the rising of warm, less-dense air and the sinking of cool, dense air.




 


What are Convection currents?




500

wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water towards the ocean surface

What is an upwelling

500
This is the movement of water between the Earth's hydrosphere and atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
500

A __________ is a frozen river of ice.

What is a glacier?

500
The exosphere is the layer of the atmosphere where most weather occurs.
What is false. Troposphere.
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