Vocabulary
What is the Biosphere?
What is the Hydrosphere and Atmosphere?
What are two things that are part of the biosphere?
What are plants, animals, bacteria, and mushrooms?
(you need to say at least two to get credit)
A hurricane is an example of which two spheres interacting.
What is the hydrosphere and atmosphere?
Explain how humans use more than one sphere in their daily life.
answers vary
This sphere of the earth includes all rocks, soil and sediment.
What is the Geosphere?
These two spheres interact when farmers plow fields to help plants grow better.
What is the geosphere and biosphere?
What is the geosphere?
Different gases make up this earth sphere.
What is the atmosphere?
The atmosphere helps protect the Earth and provides air to breathe
T or F
True
This sphere includes all the gases that surround the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
These are the two types of water found on earth.
What is Saltwater and freshwater?
What sphere is made of the Earth's crust and upper mantle?
The geosphere.
Saltwater (the oceans) make up which sphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
True or false - Most of Earth's water is made up of freshwater?
FALSE - Most of the Earth's water is SALTwater in the oceans.
What is the Hydrosphere?
What does interconnected mean?
Mrs. Mattison and her 5th grade students would belong in this sphere.
What is the biosphere?
The outermost layer of the earth is called the ____________.
Atmosphere
What spheres are interacting when the wind blows on rocks, causing erosion?
Atmosphere and Geosphere
A collection of parts that work together
what is a system?
What spheres are interacting when a fish swims in a pond, with aquatic plants growing in the dirt, and there are bubbles in the water?
All four spheres: Fish and plants (biosphere), pond water (hydrosphere), dirt (geosphere), bubbles (atmosphere).
Which two are not part of the biosphere? Cat, human, cactus, river, flowers, clouds.
River and clouds.
The water cycle (water evaporating from the ocean to form clouds, which eventually create rain) is an example of an interaction between which two spheres?
Hydrosphere and Atmosphere.
This is the sphere that makes our planet most unique.
Biosphere. We are the only planet that supports life.