The Five Spheres
Cycles
Climate & Carbon
Systems
Random
100
All living things
What is the biosphere?
100
Where an element or compound is stored for a period of time
What is a pool?
100
The state of the Earth's atmosphere at a specific time and place
What is weather?
100
When a heavy rainstorm causes soil erosion along a riverbank, which two spheres directly interact?
Hydrosphere and Geosphere
100
The Earth's largest carbon sink
What is the ocean?
200
This sphere only contains non-living (abiotic) components
What is the geosphere?
200
A flux word that describes water falling to Earth as rain
What is precipitation?
200
The overall condition of the weather usually over a long-period of time
What is climate?
200
Knowledge that is passed down from generation to generation, usually associated with Native American tribes in North America
What is Traditional Ecological Knowledge?
200
What does each part of biogeochemical mean?
What is life, earth, and elements/compounds?
300
These layers of vapor wouldn't exist without gravity
What is the atmosphere?
300
Unmined coal in Wyoming's Powder River Basin is a carbon ______.
What is a carbon sink?
300
This word describes a pool that releases more carbon than it absorbs.
What is a carbon source?
300
The geosphere is usually a _______ carbon pool.
What is long-term?
300
According to geologists, the Earth is ______.
What is 4.54 billion years old?
400
The largest carbon source is...
What is the anthrosphere?
400
Why is the ozone cycle NOT a biogeochemical cycle?
It only cycles through the atmosphere, there is no bio (living things) or geo (rocks, etc). It has chemicals though!
400
This human-driven process is causing carbon to be released 100x faster than it naturally would occur.
What is combustion?
400
What impacts could early spring runoff have on a ranching community during the hot months of August and July?
Early Spring Runoff -> Dry Soils by July -> Stunted Forage Growth -> Early Cattle Sales
400
This process releases carbon dioxide from the long-term carbon cycle into the short-term carbon cycle.
What is volcanism (or uplift from subduction zones)?
500
This sphere contains all of the solid, liquid, and vapor dihydrogen monoxide
What is the hydrosphere?
500
Ocean water warms up -> Ice melts, exposing more dark ocean water -> more solar radiation can be absorbed...
What is a Positive Feedback?
500
T or F: When magma underground cools to form igneous rocks, carbon dioxide is released
False
500
The Earth is an ______ system for energy, and a ______ system for matter
open, closed
500
The amount of solar energy entering the Earth system must be _________ the amount of energy raidiated back out to space
What is equal to?