Earth's Spheres
This sphere includes all waterways on earth including rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is Hydrosphere?
Solid naturally occurring from minerals
What is a rock?
When water is heated from bodies of water or the ground and enters into the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
quick and slow cooling on top of the surface and below the surface?
what is magma and lava?
There are three layers of the earth.
What is the crust, core, and mantle?
This is all of the frozen parts of the hydrosphere.
What is cryosphere
Three types of rock
what is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
When water vapor cools and turns back into a liquid
What is condensation?
two types of igneous rock
what is intrusive and extrusive igneous rock
Large puzzle-like pieces that make up the lithosphere. They move 2-15 cm a year and affect the climate and evolution of the earth.
What is tectonic plates?
This includes all of the gases in the air that surround all of the other spheres. It is broken up into its own layers.
What is atmosphere?
three types of sedimentary rocks.
What are clastic, chemical, and biochemical sedimentary rock?
When plants release water through their leaves
formed when existing rock changes from heat or pressure
what is metamorphic rock?
When all of the earth's continents come together to form one large continent.
What is a super continent?
A worm lives underground. They can move through the ground due to the rain that dampens the ground. There are three interconnecting spheres.
What is the biosphere (the worm), the hydrosphere (the rain), and the geosphere/lithosphere (the ground)?
type of metamorphism that is created from heat
what is contact metamorphism?
The process when water soaks into the ground so that plants' roots can soak it up
What is infiltration?
type of metamorphism that is created from pressure
what is regional metamorphism?
the breaking down of rock into sediments
what is weathering?
These are all working relationships and cycles on earth. They are all interacting with each other
What is a system?
two types of metamorphic rock
what is foliated and non-foliated metamorphic rock?
The process in which water enters the permeable membrane/layers of rocks and settles into the groundwater reservoirs
What is percolation?
created from shells and exoskeletons that settle at the bottom of the ocean
what is biochemical sedimentary rocks?
a characteristic of a mineral. 1000 extra bonus points for naming multiple. 2000 for all 5
what is solid, naturally occurring, definite chemical makeup/composition, inorganic, crystalline structure of atoms?