Earth's Spheres
What is the biosphere?
The Earth system that includes all living things. (plants, animals, humans)
Why is the ozone layer important?
The ozone layer protects us from harmful UV rays from the Sun. The Ozone protects us from 97% of the UV rays.
What are the parts of Earth's geosphere?
Crust, Upper Mantle, Lower Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core.
How does the geosphere & biosphere interact?
Geosphere is a habitat for animals, geosphere is home to plants (soil). We live on the geosphere.
The ice caps in the Antarctic and the Arctic are a part of the what
What is the Cryosphere
What is the Geopshere?
The Earth system that includes all non-living things (rocks, minerals, sediments ,etc.)
The warming of Earth is called _____
The Greenhouse Effect
How might the biosphere be affected if a harmful substance entered the geosphere?
The biosphere may be affected because plants live in the soil which is apart of the geosphere. Plants can die due to the harmful substance in the soil. Animals can also eat organisms that live in the soil or use the soil as their habitat.
How does the geosphere & hydrosphere interact?
Geosphere depends on water for soil, geosphere is eroding and weathered due to rain, lakes, oceans.
Most of the water on Earth can be found in what?
What is the Hydrosphere
What is the hydrosphere?
The system that includes all of the water on, under or above Earth
What is a sphere that you have an interdependent relationship with?
Geosphere- we live on the geosphere
Biosphere- friends, family, plants & animals that we eat.
Atmosphere- We breathe air in the atmosphere, protect from UV rays, protect from meteors
Hydrosphere- water we use to drink, shower, swim in.
Earth's main source of energy comes from what?
The Sun.
Explain the Greenhouse Effect
Some of the Sun's UV rays come down and hits the Earth, however some of the rays get trapped by Earth's atmosphere. The GREENHOUSE GASES prevent heat from escaping which warms the Earth to higher temperatures.
The _________ protects organisms that live on Earth by blocking out harmful UV rays from the sun.
What is the Atmosphere
What is the atmosphere?
The system that includes all of the layers of gasses that surround the Earth
When a volcano erupts how does the ash from the eruption interact with the hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere?
When the ash goes into the atmosphere, it can block sunlight from reaching Earth's surface. No sunlight means that plants can't make their own food - which affects the biosphere. Ash can also go into the water cycle through rain or falling into streams or rivers.
Interdependent means what?
To depend on one another
How does Earth's atmosphere protect us. What would happen if we didn't have an atmosphere?
Our atmosphere contains the air that we breathe, our atmosphere (ozone layer) protects us from the suns harmful rays, atmosphere protects us from meteors coming to Earth's surface.
Extends from inside Earth's crust to the lower Atmosphere.
What is the Biosphere
An Earth System is what?
A collection of parts that are working together. Example (Atmosphere, Biosphere, Geosphere, Hydrosphere, and Cryosphere)
What part of Earth's layer do we live on?
The Crust
Earth has 4 systems. Which system has many landforms?
Geosphere
Why is the Greenhouse Effect bad for Earth?
Leads to flooding, glaciers melt, evaporating of habitats (ponds, lakes, etc.) , plants/animals can die in extreme heat.
Extends from Earth's core to Earth's surface.
What is the Geosphere