Earth's Spheres
This sphere includes gases, clouds and air.
What is the atmosphere?
Water sticking to other things.
What is adhesion?
What is oxygen?
Banana peels, coffee grounds, and eggshells belong to this category.
What are greens?
This property of water allows water molecules to stick to each other, creating surface tension so that insects can walk across a pond.
What is cohesion?
The spheres interacting when a lion is drinking water.
What are: biosphere and hydrosphere?
Sugar dissolves into hot water due to this property.
What is universal solvent?
The bond formed when oxygen and hydrogen share electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
This category is important because it supplies Carbon and creates space for air to flow inside a pile.
What are browns?
When rain falls onto plants in the biosphere, this property allows it to stick to leaf surfaces so decomposers and plants don't dry out.
What is adhesion?
The sphere most directly impacted when oil spills into a lake.
What is the hydrosphere?
Surface tension can exist because of this property.
What is cohesion?
One side of a water molecule has a ____ charge because oxygen is on that side.
What is a negative charge?
Meat and dairy cannot be composted for this reason.
What is: smelling or attracting pests?
Water has this property (____), which lets it dissolve nutrients from the soil (a part of the ___sphere).
What is: universal solvent AND what is: geosphere?
Matter cycles through these spheres.
What are all (four) spheres?
This is the solvent when Jahmari stirs cocoa powder into his milk.
What is milk?
This bond connects the hydrogen of one molecule to the oxygen of another moleule.
What is a hydrogen bond?
Jayla adds 2 oz of Greens to her pile. How many oz of Browns should she add?
What is 6 oz?
Rain falling from the clouds (part of the ___sphere) can absorb CO2, lowering its pH below 7 and making the rainwater slightly ______.
What is: the atmosphere and what is: acidic?
This sphere is NOT included in this statement: a volcano released ash into the air, killing many birds.
What is the hydrosphere?
Milk has a pH of 6.8, so it is ____.
What is acidic?
Water has this name because one side is positive and one side is negative.
What is polar?
Ms. Rosenstadt should use this method of composting because she lives indoors and does NOT want to touch worms.
What is bokashi bins?
Fungi and bacteria (part of ___sphere) rely on water's property of _______ to dissolve nutrients out of organic matter in compost piles.
What is: biosphere and what is: universal solvent?