Earth Systems Miscellaneous
The number of interacting systems that make up our Earth.
What is 4?
The meaning of the latin root "geo"
What is rock/ Earth
The meaning of the latin root "atmo"
What is air
True or False: Earth's systems are important.
What is true?
What is the term for a group of ecosystems with similar climates and communities?
What is biome?
Water is found on Earth in what three states?
What are Solid, Liquid, or Gas
True or False: is space part of the atmosphere?
False
True or False: Earth's systems rely on one another.
What is true?
Which is not part of the biosphere?
plants, humans, bacteria, water
What is water?
Scientists refer the the material that plants grown in as _____________.
What is soil?
The process by which water moves through the Earth and Atmosphere
What is the Water Cycle?
True of false: the atmosphere is mostly made up of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and oxygen.
True
All of Earth's systems ___________, or work together.
What is interact?
How does energy flow through an ecosystem? Think energy-matter cycle.
What is the sun's energy, producers, consumers decomposers? Or What is the sun's energy, producers, decomposers?
The process by which rocks change into other types of rocks (metamorphic to igneous to sedimentary, etc)
What is the rock cycle
The process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas by heat (ex: The sun heats up water from the ocean)
What is evaporation?
The amount of layers of the atmosphere
What is 5?