Vocab
Atmospheric features that change on a day-to-day basis.
What is weather?
The Earth system that includes oceans, rivers, and lakes.
What is the hydrosphere?
This process moves water from the hydrosphere into the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
A region defined by certain temperatures, humidity, and rainfall.
What is climate?
This continuous process describes how rocks change from one type to another over time.
What is the rock cycle?
A measure of how much incoming radiation a surface reflects
What is albedo?
The Earth system that includes air and clouds.
What is the atmosphere?
This process turns water vapor into liquid water droplets in clouds.
What is condensation?
The movement of carbon within and between all four Earth systems.
What is the carbon cycle?
This type of system pushes air away from the center of the system, resulting in warm sunny weather.
What is a high-pressure system?
The primary greenhouse gas emitted by human activities.
What is carbon dioxide?
The Earth system that includes plants and animals.
What is the biosphere?
Weathering breaks down rocks and can move sediment into this system through runoff.
What is the hydrosphere?
A type of energy that moves in waves at the speed of light.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
This occurs when a cold front pushes into a warm front.
What is a thunderstorm?
Heat emitted from the Earth's surface and atmosphere.
What is terrestrial radiation or infrared radiation?
The Earth system that includes land and rocks.
What is the geosphere?
Transpiration moves water from the biosphere to this system.
What is the atmosphere?
A community of interacting organisms and their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
When carbon dioxide dissolves into ocean water, it is moving between these two systems.
What are the atmosphere and hydrosphere?
The variety of life on Earth or in a particular region.
What is biodiversity?
This Earth system, other than the hydrosphere, helps to form clouds. Without it, there would be no clouds.
What is the geosphere?
Decomposers return nutrients from dead organisms to this Earth system.
What is the geosphere?
Part of the Earth that absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is a carbon sink?
Lonnie George Johnson is know as the inventor of nerf guns. He also invented a refrigerator system free of what?
What are CFCs?