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The sphere that has the "zone" of life.
What is the biosphere?
The sphere that contains the earth's landforms, rocks & minerals.
What is the geosphere?
The sphere that contains the water cycle.
What is the hydrosphere?
Their ability to move water on a global scale.
Why are oceans so important in the hydrosphere?
Name the layers of the atmosphere from the closest to earth's surface to the furthest away.
- Troposphere
-Stratosphere
-Mesosphere
-Thermosphere
-Exosphere
What is the Thermosphere?
The name of the tectonic plate that we live on.
What is the North American plate?
Of the 2.5% of freshwater on earth, approximately what percentage of this is encapsulated in snow & glaciers?
97.5% of the earth is made up of the this type of water.
What is salt water?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains most satellites.
What is the Exosphere?
The sphere that includes ice, water vapor and liquid water in the atmosphere, ocean, lakes, streams, soils and groundwater in the geosphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
This sphere interacts physically and chemically with the hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere.
What is the geosphere?
Germany is located on this tectonic plate.
What is the Eurasia plate?
Egypt is located on this tectonic plate.
What is the African plate?
The layer of the atmosphere where meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
The sphere contains biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) factors.
What is the biosphere?
This living animal creates huge impacts on all of the different spheres.
What are humans?
True or False: Each of the different types of spheres are interconnected and can affect one another.
True.
From outermost layer to the inner most layer, what are the layers of the earth?
- Crust
-Mantle
-Outer Core
-Inner Core
This is the term used to describe the relationship between kinetic and potential energy.
What is an inverse relationship?
When calculating net force, what type of math calculation would you do if the vectors were pointing in the SAME way?
You would add them together.
When calculating net force, what type of math calculation would you do if the vectors were pointing in the OPPOSITE way?
You would subtract them.
What is the law of action/reaction?
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction is the definition for which law.
What is Newton's 3rd law?
True or False: Newton's 3rd law is affected by the mass of an object.
False.