Earth's Spheres
When a tree’s roots break apart rocks, these two spheres are interacting.
What are the biosphere and geosphere?
Commercial airplanes usually fly in this layer.
What is the troposphere?
This type of energy transfer brings heat from the Sun to Earth.
What is radiation?
This process turns water vapor into clouds.
What is condensation?
Melting glaciers in this sphere can raise the sea level in the hydrosphere.
What is the cryosphere?
This layer contains the ozone that protects life from harmful UV rays.
What is the stratosphere?
This type of item allows thermal energy to pass through it easily.
What is a conductor?
This phase change occurs when ice turns directly into water vapor.
What is sublimation?
An earthquake most directly affects this sphere first.
What is the geosphere?
This atmospheric layer is colder than the rest.
What is the mesosphere?
Warm air rising at the equator and sinking at the poles creates these.
What are convection currents?
This is the process of water moving across land into rivers, oceans, and other bodies of water.
What is surface run-off?
A volcanic eruption releasing gases and ash into the air shows interaction between these two spheres.
What are the geosphere and atmosphere?
Satellites are found in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
When you roast a marshmallow over a campfire, these two types of heat transfer are at work.
What are radiation and convection?
These two processes put water vapor into the atmosphere.
What are evaporation and transpiration?
Human farming involves these three spheres at once.
What are the biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere?
This layer or layers help keep Earth's average temperature stable.
What are all the layers working together?
This process cannot transfer thermal energy through space because it requires matter.
What is conduction?
This step of the water cycle happens when precipitation soaks into the soil and becomes groundwater.
What is infiltration?