Earth's Spheres
Consists of all of Earth's water.
What is the hydrosphere?
ONE piece of evidence that supports Wegener's theory of Continental Drift.
What is fit of continents, fossil evidence, rock evidence, or climate evidence?
Earth is this type of system (open or closed).
What is a closed system?
This layer of the atmosphere is where meteors burn up.
What is the Mesosphere?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
When precipitation falls, the water runs downhill into lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans.
What is runoff
The mixture of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
An example of an item in the Geosphere.
rocks, minerals, mountains, soil, etc.
One example of how the biosphere interacts with another sphere.
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Caused by the force of gravity. Air molecules are pulled toward the surface of the Earth.
In what part of the water cycle does liquid water change into water vapor?
What is evaporation
The part of Earth where life exists.
What is the biosphere?
Earthquakes are caused because of this type of plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
Three of the requirements for life on Earth.
Liquid water, moderate temperature, source of energy, cycling of materials, or gravity.
Airplanes fly in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the stratosphere?
The stage in the water cycle where the water vapor cools and forms into a liquid or solid.
What is condensation
The mostly solid, rocky part of the earth that extends from the core of the Earth to the surface of the crust.
What is the geosphere?
Earth's tectonic plates move because of this process in which hot material rises, and cold material sinks.
What is a convection current?
Three examples of the biosphere.
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The three main types of energy transfer.
What are radiation, conduction, and convection?
Some precipitation soaks into the ground and becomes ________.
What is groundwater.
Describe how humans are dependent on EACH sphere.
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These are the four layers of the Earth.
What is the lithosphere, asthenosphere, outer core, and inner core?
Explain why it may be concerning that Earth is a closed system.
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The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
Where is most of Earth's freshwater
What is glaciers and ice caps