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Number of Earth's spheres
What is four?
Sphere means this in Greek
What is ball?
Atmos meaning in Greek
What is vapor?
Hydro meaning in Greek
What is water?
Geo meaning in Greek
What is Earth?
Bios meaning in Greek
What is Life?
System that relates to meteorological features such as weather, clouds, or aerosols (particles in the air)
What is Atmosphere?
System is associated with living systems such as biomes or ecosystems, life on lands, in the oceans and rivers
What is the Biosphere?
System is associated with water in solid and liquid states
What is Hydrosphere?
System associated with solid portions of the Earth such as rocks, sediments, soils, surface landforms and processes that shape the surface.
What is (Litho)/Geosphere?
Energy driver of many of the Earth system interactions
What is the Sun?
Energy driver of many of the geosphere's processes
What is the Earth's core?
Earth receives energy from the sun, but very little matter enters or exits our system
What is a Closed System?
Features of the Atmosphere
What are air, winds, weather, climate, clouds, jet stream, solar radiation buffer, CO2/O2 mixing and heat mixing?
Features of the Hydrosphere
What are water, water cycle, oceans, lakes and rivers, sea ice, glaciers, snow cover, soil moisture and aquifiers?
Features of the Biosphere
What are plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, algae, coral reefs, producers consumers and decomposers, evolution and adaptation?
Features of the Geosphere
What are land, plate tectonics, volcanoes, rock cycle, hot spots, sedimentation, fossilization, earthquakes, and magnetism?
The layers of the Earth's atmosphere
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere.
The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that we live in and nearly all weather occurs
What is Troposphere?
This happens as you climb higher in the troposphere
What are air pressure drops and temperatures get colder?
This is where the commercial passenger jets fly and the ozone layer is found
What is the stratosphere?
Meteors burn up here and temperatures turn colder - coldest sphere
What is the mesosphere?
Air is too thin to breathe, air pressure drops as you go higher
What is the mesosphere
The Northern lights and the Aurora Boralis are found here; high energy xrays and UV rays are absorbed here
What is the thermosphere?
Temperature is really high, but would feel freezing to us because layer is so thin
What is the Thermosphere