Hydrosphere
The frozen part of Earth's hydrosphere
What is the cryosphere
The layer of the atmosphere that is closest to Earth's surface?
What is the troposphere
The process in which plants use sunlight to make simple sugars and oxygen out of water and carbon dioxide
What is photosynthesis?
After sediments are deposited in a place, they can be compressed to create larger rocks called this
What are sedimentary rocks?
Large, swirling storms that form over warm ocean waters and sometimes they strike land
What is a hurricane
Water in the hydrosphere exists in these forms.
What is lakes, oceans, rivers, and groundwater
The layer of Earth's atmosphere that has a high concentration of ozone
What is the stratosphere
The earliest life forms of the biosphere that survived without oxygen
What are prokaryotes (single-celled organisms such as bacteria and archaea.)
Hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling
What is magma?
Giant waves caused by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions under the sea
What is a Tsunami
The process where water collects in rivers, lakes and oceans. Then it evaporates into the atmosphere to start all over again.
What is the water cycle
The layer of Earth's atmosphere where the the coldest temperatures are found
What is the mesosphere
The biosphere has existed this long
What is about 3.5 billion years
The processes undergone by rocks in the earth's crust, involving igneous intrusion, uplift, erosion, transportation, deposition as sedimentary rock, metamorphism, remelting, and further igneous intrusion.
What is the rock cycle?
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water
What is drought?
This distinguishes our unique planet from other planets in the solar system
What is the abundance of liquid water on Earth
These are the gases that the atmosphere is composed of.
What is about 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon, and 0.1 percent other gases. Trace amounts of carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and neon are some of the other gases that make up the remaining 0.1 percent.
The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
A scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth’s subterranean movements.
What is plate tectonics?
The most common and widespread of all weather-related natural disasters.
What is flooding
This is how the hydrosphere impacts the geosphere in the water cycle
What is that water sculpts landforms through erosion and the movement of minerals
The atmosphere acts as a gigantic filter, keeping out what?
What is most ultraviolet radiation
A community and the interactions of living and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
The movement of tectonic plates is made possible by this
What is thermal energy (heat)
When dead plants and other organic matter is submerged in swamp environments and subjected to the geological forces of pressure and heat, this is formed.
What is coal?