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
The 2 systems most affected by an earthquake
What is geosphere, biosphere?
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
The amount of layers of the atmosphere
What is 5?
The Earth systems most affected by burning fossil fuels.
What is atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere?
Which is not part of the biosphere?
plants, humans, bacteria, water
What is water?
Scientists refer the the material that plants are grown in as _____________.
What is soil?
The process by which water moves through the Earth and Atmosphere
What is the Water Cycle?
This atmospheric layer protects us (Earth) from meteroids
What is the mesosphere?
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?
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?
Which layer has the greatest air pressure?
What is the troposphere?
A group of parts/ things that interact and work together to perform a job or function.
What is a system?
How do nutrients get in the soil?
Earth is made up of layers, what are those layers?
What are the Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core
The term for stored water underground?
What is groundwater?
The 2 main gases that make up 99% of Earth's atmosphere:
What are Nitrogen (78%), Oxygen (21%)