Earth's Spheres
Rocks, soil, and Earth's layers
What is the geosphere made of?
This is the process where water vapor turns back into liquid.
What is condensation?
This is what engineers do after they build a prototype.
What is that they test it?
This the name of the process plants use to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
4.6 billion years
What is how old the earth is?
The percentage of Earth's water that is saltwater.
What is 97%
A barometer measures this.
What is air pressure?
This is the working model of a design.
What is a prototype?
This type of organism makes its own food.
What is a producer?
The sudden disappearance of many species.
What is mass extinction?
This sphere blocks harmful solar radiation and keeps temperatures stable.
What is the atmosphere?
These clouds bring thumderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
A limitation of a design is also called this.
What is constraint?
During photosynthesis, plants take in this gas from the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
The remains or traces of ancient life.
What are fossils?
All living things on Earth.
What is the Biosphere?
This type of cloud covers the sky like a blanket and brings steady rain.
What are stratus clouds?
This kind of engineer creates machines and engines.
What is a mechanical engineer?
This substance absorbs sunlight and makes the leaves green.
What is chlorophyll?
What is the Mesozoic Era?
These two spheres are the first most affected when a forest fire starts.
What are the biosphere and atmosphere?
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Repeating a process to improve the design.
What is iteration?
These two items are produced by plants during photosynthesis.
What are oxygen and glucose (sugar)?
The law that states older rocks are below younger rocks on earth?
What is the Law of Superposition?