Geosphere
What is the Geosphere?
Earth's solid and non-living parts of the Earth.
What is the Hydrosphere?
All the water on Earth.
What is the Atmosphere?
All the layers of gases surrounding the Earth.
What is the Lithosphere?
What is the Biosphere?
All living things on Earth, including the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere.
What are some examples of things in the Geosphere?
Rocks, Minerals, Soils, and Land forms.
What are some examples of bodies of water?
Rivers, Lakes, Ponds, and Oceans.
What are the Layers of the Atmosphere in order.
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.
What are the 3 Rock types?
Sedimentary Rocks, Metamorphic Rocks, and Igneous Rocks.
What are examples of things in the Biosphere?
Humans, Animals, and Plants.
What are the Layers of the Geosphere?
Inner Core, Outer Core, Lower Mantle, Upper Mantle, and the Crust.
What percent of Earth's water is saltwater and freshwater?
3% is Freshwater.
Which layer of the atmosphere is the Ozone Layer in?
The Stratosphere.
How are Sedimentary rocks, Metamorphic rocks, and Igneous rocks formed?
Sedimentary Rocks-Formed from the compaction & cementation of sediments like sand, dirt, and minerals.
Metamorphic Rocks-Formed from already existing rocks like Igneous, Sedimentary, or other Metamorphic rocks going through metamorphism which involves both high heat and pressure.
Igneous Rocks-Formed from the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.
What are the living and non-living factors called?
Living-Biotic Factors
Non-Living-Abiotic Factors
What are the 3 types of boundaries?
The Convergent, Divergent, and Transform boundary.
Where is the 3% of freshwater located at?
They're located in bodies of freshwater like rivers, lakes, ponds, water underground and in glaciers & ice caps.
What does the Ozone layer do?
It protects us by blocking the sun's UV radiation from harming the Earth.
What is the Lithosphere broken up into?
It is broken into large, rigid plates called tectonic plates.
What can pose as a significant threat to the health and biodiversity of the Biosphere?
Human activities such as habitat destruction and causing climate change.
What do the Convergent boundary and Divergent boundary create?
Convergent boundaries-Oceanic-Oceanic Plates-Create volcanic islands & deep ocean trenches. Oceanic-Continental Plates-Destroy crust and Subduction occurs. Continental-Continental Plates-Creates Mountains.
Divergent boundaries- Oceanic-Oceanic Plates-Seafloor spreading occurs. Continental-Continental Plates-Really rare.
What are the different parts of the Water Cycle?
Condensation, Evaporation, Precipitation, Transpiration, Infiltration, Runoff, Sublimation, Groundwater, Water Vapor, and Percolation.
What are the percentages of the different gases that make up the Atmosphere?
78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.9% Argon, 0.1% of other gases like Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor.
What are some examples of the Lithosphere?
Some examples of the lithospheric features include mountains, volcanoes, and all the rocks beneath the Ocean.
What does the Biosphere include?
It includes the outer region of the Earth (the Lithosphere) and the lower region of the atmosphere (the Troposphere).