Humans, Animals, and Plants have this in common.
What is being "in the Biosphere Group" / "alive."
A) 5% B) 1% C) 0.5% D) 0.001%
What is D) 0.001% ?
(This means that 99.99% of the hydrosphere is in glaciers, oceans, groundwater, and other non-gaseous interactions!)
This is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
These are the 3 layers of the Earth.
What are the Crust, Mantle, and Core?
This is what "Geo" means.
What is "Earth" (but in reference to the ground/land)?
The 3rd planet from the Sun.
What is Earth?
This is what lakes, rivers, oceans, water vapor, and more have in common.
What is "being in the Hydrosphere Group" / "made of water?"
This gas is required by most animal life to survive.
What is oxygen?
This is the middle layer of the earth.
What is the mantle?
This is what is meant by the sphere that contains life.
What is the Biosphere?
The biosphere is only made of these.
What are Living Things?
The hydrosphere is the part of the earth made up of______?
Water.
This gas is required by most plant life to survive.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the specific name for the layer farther-out than the Outer Core.
What is the Lower Mantle?
The lower mantle is solid in structure. It is made of high-pressure minerals with iron, magnesium, and silicates.
This is what "Hydro" means.
What is water?
The biosphere can be found in these other spheres (name which ones.)
What are all the other spheres (atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere)?
This is how much of Earth's freshwater isn't frozen as glaciers.
A) 10% B) 3% C) 0.3% D) 0.1%
What is C) 0.3%?
The other 2.7% is locked away in glaciers and icecaps.
This is what the atmosphere is made of.
What is air?
This is the average temperature of the Mantle.
What is 1000 degrees C (1832 degrees F)?
This is what is meant by the sphere that contains all of the gases surrounding Earth means.
What is the atmosphere?
This would happen if the biosphere didn't exist.
What is having a dark, polluted wasteland of dust and ashes? (or similar answer)
A frozen comet flying near Earth part of the hydrosphere. (yes/no)
What is No?
More people died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in 2022 than any year since before 1999.
(True / False)
What is True?
2022 was a record of 624 people. Also, accidental carbon monoxide poisoning deaths from consumer products (mostly portable heaters) increased by 70% from 2009-today and is about 1/2 of these accidents (with the other 1/2 being cars and in-home furnaces). It is a silent killer (usually begins flu-like).
This is the deepest that life has ever gone (in meters or feet).
What is the Kola Superdeep Borehole on the Kola Peninsula in Russia, reaching a depth of approximately 12,262 meters (40,230 feet)?
This is what is meant for the location where tectonic plates are moving toward one another.