Bio/Atmo
What is the definition of "Bio"?
Life
What is the definition of "Geo"?
Land
What is the definition of "Hydro"?
Water
How is the cryosphere connected to the hydrosphere?
It is the frozen water of the hydrosphere.
Earth's largest system?
Geosphere
What is the definition of "Atmo"?
Air
Name the process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves rock and soil from one place to another.
Erosion
What is another name for water, snow, or ice that falls from the sky?
Precipitation.
Give an example of the connection between the atmosphere and hydrosphere.
rain
All living things on earth are part of what sphere?
Biosphere
Where is Earth's Atmosphere located?
outermost system
Describe how Navajo Lake was formed.
Lava Flow
Which ocean is known for the "Ring of Fire"?
Pacific
Plants producing oxygen is an example of a connection between what two spheres?
Atmosphere and Biosphere
What type of water is most water on Earth?
Salt
Name a process that is an interaction between the atmosphere and the biosphere that helps grow plants?
Photosynthesis
The Grand Canyon is the result of what two forces?
Weathering and Erosion
What percent of the Earth's water can humans use?
1%
Waves eroding rocks on a beach is a connection between what two spheres?
Hydrosphere and Geosphere
Why is a plateau an example of the geosphere?
Weathering, erosion, and uplift are all processes that create plateaus and are part of the geosphere.
Name at least three reasons that fresh water is important to life on Earth?
helps grow food, provides drinking water, provides dwelling for amphibians, provides important minerals, people need water to survive.
How are mountains and valley's created?
earthquakes, volcanoes, and uplift
A large part of Earth's fresh water is...
1-in oceans; 2-frozen; 3-in lakes; 4-in the biosphere
Frozen
A volcanic eruption releasing gases affects what two spheres?
Atmosphere and Geosphere
Earth's four systems are...
1-not important for life on Earth; 2-all part of the atmosphere; 3-all connected; 4-work independent of each other
All connected