Earths Systems
Layers of the Atmosphere
Earths layers
Interactions among earths systems
Vocabulary
100
All of the ice on earth is found where?
What is cryosphere?
100
Which 3 gases make up most of earth's atmosphere?
What is oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide?
100
inner most layer of the earth
What is inner core?
100
When a tree grows, it needs water, air, and living processes. These three Earth systems are interacting.
What are the hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere?
100
The frozen portion of water on on earth's surface
What is Cryosphere?
200
Which Earth's system insulates the planet to keep it warm.
What is atmosphere?
200
These two Earth systems interact during the water cycle, helping water evaporate, condense, and fall back to Earth.
What are the hydrosphere and the atmosphere?
200
Plates move in this layer of the earth
What is mantle?
200
3 ways we can protect the earth and help it?
-Plant trees
-use electric cars
-pick up garbage
-Solar power
200
The outermost layer of the atmosphere
What is exosphere?
300
What are Earth's four systems and what each one does?
What is
Geosphere → land, rocks, soil
Hydrosphere → water
Atmosphere → air
Biosphere → living things
300
The stratosphere protects earth from what?
What is harmful radiation? Or sun's rays
300
Earths crust consists of what two things?
What is the oceanic and continental crust?
300
Which systems are interacting here?
What is geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?
300
The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere.
What is the water cycle?
400
This Earth system includes oceans, rivers, lakes, ice, and even water vapor in the air.
What is the hydrosphere?
400
Weather occurs here. I regulate earths temperatures and I am the first layer of the atmosphere. Who am I?
What is Troposphere?
400
The outer core is made up of what 4 things?
What is liquid iron, nickel, sulfur and oxygen?
400
I am ice fishing in the Antarctic, the ice gives underneath me and I fall through. Which 3 systems are interacting?
What is cryosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?
400
A form of oxygen that protects us from ultraviolet radiation
What is the ozone layer?
500
Name the 4 layers of the Earth
Crust, Mantle, Inner and Outer Core
500
Layers of the atmosphere from inside out.
What is Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
500
This Earth layer is the thin, solid top layer where we live, plants grow, and oceans sit. It is often compared to the skin of an apple.
What is the crust?
500
Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen and excess water through a process called photosynthesis. Which systems are interacting here.
What is biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere?
500
What happens if we take away the stratosphere layer of the atmosphere.
It could be any of these possible answers
What is we'd be hit by an asteroid
What is earths temperatures wouldnt be regulated
What is we'd have no nitrogen, oxygen, or any other gases
What is we'd all die from radiation exposure