Earth's Spheres
This sphere includes all the water on Earth, like oceans, rivers, and glaciers.
What is the hydrosphere?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight, like plants do.
What are producers?
This star is at the center of our solar system and provides light and heat to Earth.
What is the sun?
This state of matter has a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
This is the energy of motion, like a rolling ball or a moving car.
What is kinetic energy?
This sphere includes all living organisms, including plants, animals, and humans.
What is the biosphere?
These organisms cannot make their own food and must eat other organisms to get energy.
What are consumers?
This force pulls objects toward each other and keeps planets orbiting the Sun.
What is gravity?
This state of matter takes the shape of its container but has a fixed volume.
What is water?
This type of energy travels in waves and can move through empty space from the Sun to Earth.
What is light energy?
This sphere is made up of gases surrounding Earth and is where weather happens.
What is the atmosphere?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
This is the tendency of an object to stay at rest or keep moving unless acted on by a force.
What is inertia?
This state of matter has no fixed shape or volume and spreads out to fill any space
What is a gas?
This process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces over time.
What is weathering?
This sphere includes rocks, soil, mountains, and Earth’s crust.
What is the geosphere?
This type of consumer eats only plants and is often the first consumer in a food chain.
What is an herbivore?
This pattern formed by groups of stars often looks like shapes or animals in the night sky.
What is a constellation?
This type of change alters the form of a substance but does not create a new substance.
What is a physical change?
This type of rock is formed when layers of sediment are pressed and cemented together over time.
What are sedimentary rocks?
When plants use carbon dioxide from the air to make food, this shows interaction between these two spheres.
What is the biosphere and the atmosphere?
This organism eats both plants and animals and can be found at different levels in a food chain.
What is an omnivore?
The sun contains approximately what percent of mass for the entire solar system?
What is 99%?
This type of change creates a new substance.
What is a chemical change?
This type of rock forms from cooled and hardened lava or magma.
What is igneous rock?