Earth Systems
All things living.
What is Biosphere?
All parts of the ecosystem are connected.
What is interconnectedness?
This keeps the Earth warm.
What is sunlight?
To protect something.
What is conservation?
Includes all bodies of water including streams and rivers.
What is hydrosphere?
Indigenous people believe we need to give this to our Earth to keep things in balance.
What is respect?
True or false - we can live without water and sunlight.
What is false?
The special group formed by the Canadian government to maintain and manage Canadian parks like Banff National Park.
What is Parks Canada?
Name 3 human actions that could harm our environment and say which earth system would be affected most.
What is wildfires (atmosphere fill with smoke), water pollution with throwing bottles in (biosphere fish could die), etc.?
Indigenous people believe in living in this with the environment.
What is harmony?
Any living thing.
What is an organism?
Name 3 groups that work with Park's Canada to protect Canada's natural history.
What is governments, conservation groups and Indigenous communities?
The outer layer of the Earth's surface.
What is the lithosphere?
Name four natural resources.
What is water, soil, metals, forests, minerals, air, organisms?
True or false - sunlight is most direct at the poles.
What is false? It is most direct at the equator.
Name 2 natural and 2 human-made areas where conservation practices have been done.
What is restoring a habitat (natural), laws to regulate hunting (natural), creating protected areas (natural), collecting rainwater to water plants (human made), community gardens (human made) or use recycled material to build homes with (human made), etc.?
The layer of air that surrounds our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
Indigenous people believe these are things nature provides as gifts of life.
What is natural resources?
Earth revolves around this.
What is the sun?
Where animals or plants live.
What is habitat?