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The Earth system that includes all living things
What is the Biosphere?
The Earth system that includes rocks, soil, sediments, and Earth's core and mantle.
What is the Geosphere?
A group of parts that work together to complete a task.
What is a system?
The layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The Earth system that includes all water.
What is the hydrosphere?
What are four different components of the biosphere?
sample: plants, animals, bacteria, people, insects, fish. - or any other acceptable answers
What makes up the geosphere and give three examples.
The geosphere is is made up of rocks, soil, and sediments. Examples include: gold, silver, mountains, sand, etc.
To clearly show the differences between two objects
What is distinguish?
What makes up the Earth's atmosphere?
Various gasses such as nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide make up Earth's atmosphere.
What are the two main types of water on earth?
Salt water and freshwater.
How are UV rays harmful?
UV rays can damage your skin and eyes.
MULTIPLE CHOICE!!
The mantle makes up how much of Earth's total volume?
17% 34% 63% 84%
84%
What are you learning about in this topic?
How can you model Interactions among Earth's systems?
How does the atmosphere function to protect earth?
The atmosphere traps heat, keeping the earth warm enough to support life.
What is one way in which the atmosphere interacts with the hydrosphere?
open ended: the atmosphere contains water as clouds, which are part of the hydrosphere.
Rain, snow, sleet, storms, water vapor, or other acceptable
How could pollution in the hydrosphere affect the living things that make up the biosphere?
If the ocean is polluted, the living things that make up the biosphere could be negatively affected. Some of these effects can be illustrated by a decrease in reproduction or even death.
Or other acceptable answers
List the 4 layers of the Geosphere
The crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core
On what spheres does the biosphere depend? How?
Sample: it depends on the hydrosphere for water, the geosphere for minerals, and the atmosphere for air.
Suppose the atmosphere was only half as thick as it is now? What effect might this cause on Earth’s biosphere?
Earth would be much colder, so fewer species could survive.
How could pollution in the hydrosphere affect the living things that make up the biosphere?
If the ocean is polluted, the living things that make up the biosphere could be negatively affected. some of these effects can be illustrated by a decrease in reproduction or even death.
List all the steps of the Scientific Method in order
1) Question / 2) Research / 3) Hypothesis /
4) Design an Experiment / 5) Observations /
6) Conclusion
How are the inner core and the outer core different?
The inner core is solid and the outer core is liquid
Fill in the blanks below with the correct vocabulary word.
PRECIPITATION INTERACTION GASSES AIR TEMPERATURE
The ___________ of the ________ affects the kind of ____________ that will be experienced on Earth.
The TEMPERATURE of the AIR affects the kind of PRECIPITATION that will be experienced on Earth
What happens when rain comes into contact with pollutants in the air?
The rain can become acidic and turn to acid rain
How might the effects of acid rain on soil affect crops and other plants in a community?
Plants need minerals from the soil, so acid rain could result in unhealthy plants, some of them may die