Earth's 4 Spheres
What is the geosphere?
What is earths portion of the earth that includes rocks and minerals.
This is the layer that is characterized by thin air and low atmospheric pressure. It is where meteors burn upon entry
What is the Mesosphere
What is the water cycle in order?
What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
This layer is what we see everyday and is the thinnest layer
What is the Crust
Plants produce this
What is oxygen
What is the hydrosphere?
What is earths portion of the earth that includes water, river lakes
Which layer is home to the ozone layer which shields the Earth from harmful radiation?
What is the Stratosphere
What is evaporation?
When the sun shines on water and it turns to vapor steam, it goes up into the sky.
This layer is broken up into the upper and lower
What is the Mantle.
This is produced when people and animals breathe
What is carbon dioxide
What is the atmosphere?
What is earths portion of the earth that includes "air"
This layer is where the international space station orbits.
What is the Thermosphere
What is Precipitation?
When clouds becomes too heavy with water droplets it falls back to the ground as snow, rain or hail.
What are Earth's 3 layers in order including the two divided sections:
What is the inner core, outer core, lower mantle, upper mantle, crust.
What does the emission of fossil fuels cause.
Carbon dioxide as well as other gases to be released in to the atmosphere
What is the biosphere?
What is earths portion of the earth that includes living things such as birds, fish, people and plants
This layer is where weather occurs and where we live and breathe
What is the Troposphere
What is Condensation?
What is when warm water vapor rises and it sticks together and forms clouds.
What is the solid center of the earth called?
What is the Inner Core.
The act of taking in oxygen and getting rid of carbon dioxide.
What is Respiration
What would be the result of a negative occurrence in one sphere?
One or more of the other spheres would also be affected.
What are the layers of the atmosphere starting from the lowest layer closest to Earth's Surface.
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
What is transpiration
When water vapor is released from plant leaves
When the Earth's crust is broken into large pieces it is called _____. The _______. slowly move over millions of years.
What is Tectonic plates
What would be the impact of cutting down too many forests?
Without plants the carbon dioxide could not be converted into oxygen which we need to breathe.