Earth Systems
This Earth system contains all of Earth's water.
What is the hydrosphere?
This process coverts a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?
This gas makes up the majority of our Earth's atmosphere (~78%).
What is Nitrogen?
An animal breathing out carbon dioxide and releasing it into the air.
What are the biosphere and the atmosphere?
This process causes carbon to move from plants and animals to the atmosphere.
What is cellular respiration?
This Earth system contains all of Earth's rock.
What is the geosphere?
This process soaks in water into the ground
What is the infiltration?
This is the atmospheric layer where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
What are the hydrosphere and the geosphere?
The producer takes in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to make food through this process
What is photosynthesis?
This Earth system contains all of Earth's living things.
What is the biosphere?
Water vapor converts from a gas to liquid form
What is condensation?
Matter and energy flows in and out of each system.
What is an open system?
The polar ice caps melting.
What are the cryosphere and the hydrosphere?
What is decomposition?
This Earth system contains all of Earth's air.
What is the atmosphere?
Water moves from higher to lower elevation or may not soak into the ground, but moves to a nearby reservoir.
What is the run-off?
What is Biogeochemical Cycle?
Strong gusts of wind in a sandstorm.
What are the geosphere and the atmosphere?
When fossils fuels are burn and carbon is added to the environment.
What is combustion?
This Earth system contains all of Earth's frozen water (ice).
What is the cryosphere?
Rain, sleet, snow or hail
What is the precipitation?
The Earth is considered as this type of system.
What is a closed system?
Daily Double: A tree releases water into the atmosphere.
What are the biosphere, the hydrosphere, and the atmosphere?
The process by which carbon is removed from the atmosphere and absorbed into the ocean or other bodies of water on the surface.
What is diffusion?