Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Geosphere
Biosphere
Spheres
100
This layer of the atmosphere is extremely cold and the temperature decreases as it goes higher up.
What is the mesosphere?
100
This type of water can be mostly found in glaciers and groundwater.
What is freshwater?
100
Which layer of the Earth are we standing on?
What is the crust?
100
A mushroom belongs in what kingdom?
Fungi
100
This sphere contains mountains, valleys, and other landscapes?
What is the geosphere?
200
This gas makes up the majority of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
200
This is what happens to surface water when the sun shines on it.
What is evaporation?
200
It is the thickest layer of Earth and described as a semisolid.
What is the mantle?
200
Areas of the world with similar climates and species are known as _________.
Biomes
200
Humans impact which spheres of the earth?
All of them.
300
Most airplanes fly in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the stratosphere?
300
We live right next to this ocean.
Where is the Atlantic Ocean?
300
This rock is formed through cooling and solidifying magma or lava.
What is igneous rock?
300
A small but intense cyclonic vortex with very high wind speeds.
What is a tornado?
300
__% of the total water on Earth is saltwater and __% is freshwater.
97.5% and 2.5%
400
This is where you can find clouds and weather occurs here.
What is the troposphere?
400
Water Cycle: If an animal urinates, what are places the water can possibly go?
Evaporate to the clouds, stream/river, groundwater
400
The core of the Earth is made of what two parts?
Nickel and iron
400
Name three biomes.
temperate forest, deciduous forest, grasslands, ocean, tundra, rainforest, desert, taigas, savannahs
400
What does 'bio' mean?
Life
500
What is the role of the ozone layer?
It protects plants and animals from receiving too much UV radiation.
500
The vast majority of water on Earth is this type.
What is saltwater?
500
What causes a metamorphic rock to form?
Extreme heat and pressure. It causes chemical and/or physical change.
500
Name 2 kingdoms that belong in the domain Eukarya.
Fungi, Animals, Plants, and Protists
500
Sandstone is this type of rock.
What is a sedimentary rock?
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