Earth Sphere's
What sphere does Carbon Dioxide belong to?
Describe how a plant can break down a rock.
What is root wedging? The plant can grow into the rock and make it crack.
True or False? Do Earthquakes and Volcanoes happen in a pattern?
What is true.
About what percentage of the earths water is salt water?
What is 97%?
What sphere do we belong to?
What is the Biosphere
Precipitation is an interaction between what two spheres?
what is the hydrosphere and atmosphere?
What forces created the National Arch
What is Weathering?
What happens when an Earthquake happens underwater.
They cause huge tidal waves or Tsnuami's
What percentage of the Earth's water is fresh?
When dead things decompose on the forest ground, what two spheres are interacting?
What is the biosphere and geosphere?
Give 1 example of slow change and one example of a fast change to the Earth's surface.
Fast- Earthquake, landslide, volcano
What is the scale and device the measures an Earthquake?
What is the Richter Scale and Siesmograph
What is the pool of underground water called?
What is the Aquitard
Describe what happens to a rock that has moved from the top of the hill to the bottom of a hill.
The rock may be smaller and in pieces and it has smooth edges.
When water evaporates from a river, it moves from the________ to the ________.
What is:
Hydrosphere to the Atmosphere
True or False- The Grand Canyon was created by an giant earthquake
Explain why earthquakes and volcanoes happen in a pattern and why do they happen mostly in the Ring of Fire.
What is they happen in a pattern because of the tectonic plates and along the plate boundaires?
Why can't humans use salt water as drinking water?
What is there is too much salt and the process to desalinization is expensive.
Name an interaction between the geosphere and hydrosphere.
What perfect of water on earth is not salt water?
What is 3%?
How can water break a rock?
What is water seeps in the crack and it freezes and breaks down the rock. This repeats over and over.
Where do volcanoes and earthquakes mostly appear?
Near tectonic plates, or Ring of Fire
Why is groundwater so hard for humans to access to use?
What is...it is far away and to get the water would be hard and expensive.
The continents of Earth are part of what sphere?
What is the Geosphere.