Topic #1
This sphere contains all of the water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
Which layers of the atmosphere are the hottest?
Thermosphere
What absorbs ultraviolet rays in the stratosphere?
Ozone layer
What Earth's spheres are interacting between the habitat for animals and home to plants (soil).
biosphere and geosphere
Heat moves from cold to warm. True or False
False
It refers to the Earth system that includes all living things. (plants, animals, humans)
Biosphere
Nearly 80% of all the gas is found in this layer of the atompshere.
What is the Troposphere?
This is a harmful greenhouse gas caused by burning fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
All of earth's spheres are interconnected. True or false?
What is true?
Sea breeze blows from the _________ to the _______
Sea to the land
What is the atmosphere?
The system that includes all of the layers of gasses that surround the Earth
The ozone can be found in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the stratosphere?
The process by which gases in the atmosphere, such a carbon dioxide, absorb and give off infared radiation.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Most of the radiation from the sun is absorbed in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
The sun emits greenhouse gases. True or False
False
Which sphere contains landforms
Geosphere
The international space station orbits in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
The burning of fossil fuels creates this.
Greenhouse gases
Air temperature at the equator
What is warm air?
Which process causes air movement between the ocean and the land?
Convection
The two different things that can be exchanged between spheres.
What is matter and energy?
The furthest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
Air pressure increases as altitude ________
Decreases
this happens when air warms and rises, then cools and falls
What is wind?
Give 3 results of Global warming
rise in sea levels
increase in temperature
Melting of glaciers