Challenge
What is another name for the Rocky Mountains that defines how water flows in the Western parts of the United states?
The Great Divide
Describe the atmosphere
Thin layer of gases surrounding the Earth
How does the geosphere put water back in the atmosphere?
Water evaporates from the soil / surface
Destroys land
The majority of water is found in the....
Ocean
Describe how YOU can interact with the biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and atmosphere.
Eat plants and animals (biosphere) / walk on land (geosphere) / drink water (hydrosphere) / put ice in your drink (crysophere) / breathe air (atmosphere)
What makes up the geosphere?
Rocks / Metal / Land
Volcanoes erupting and killing the plants and animals nearby is an example of a constructive force or destructive force?
Destructive Force
Describe what a constructive force does to the geosphere.
Builds land
What source of heat energy fuels the processes in the water cycle?
The heat from the sun
Describe elevation.
Describe relief.
The measure of a height of a landform above or below sea level.
The difference in the highest point and lowest point.
What makes up the hydrosphere?
Water
The heat in Earth's interior
What would be an example of a destructive force in the geosphere?
Volcano
Where is most of Earth's freshwater found?
Glaciers / Icebergs /Ice Sheets (Frozen)
Which landform can only be found in the ocean.
What landforms could be found on both land and oceans?
Abyssal Plain
Valleys, Volcanoes, Mountains, Trenches
What is the biosphere made up of?
Living things
Name 3 landforms found in Florida.
Rivers / Coastlines / Dunes
Name a way that water can be destructive.
Name a way that water can be constructive.
Erosion of landforms
Creates lakes / Deposits sediment
Evaporation and Precipitation are in balance
Name 3 ways lakes can be formed.
Empty crater of a volcano
Rift Valley
Melting ice sheets (Great Lakes)
What is the relationship between the hydrosphere and the cryosphere
The cryosphere is part of the hydrosphere
What is the name of the landform that stretches from Florida, up the Eastern coast, to Massachusetts.
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Mountains forming where two continents meet together is what kind of force (constructive or destructive)
Constructive Force
Describe what happens to the temperature of ocean water as you go deeper into the ocean.
Describe what happens to pressure as you go deeper into the ocean.
The temperature decreases or gets colder as you go deeper into the ocean.
Pressure increases as you go deeper into the ocean.