Earth's Systems
The Earth's sphere that includes all water.
Hydrosphere
What is a substance that has volume and no set shape?
Gas
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
Matter
The ocean where you find the ring of fire.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The spheres that are interacting when it rains and soaks into the ground.
The hydrosphere and geosphere
When a liquid becomes a gas
Evaporation
The ability to do work
Energy
waves of energy that pass through Earth caused by a sudden shift of tectonic plates along fault lines.
What are earthquakes?
When plates move away
from each other within a
continent.
What is a continental rift?
When a solid mixes with a liquid to create a solution.
Dissolve
The process by which plants convert energy from sunlight into energy for food.
photosynthesis
The movement of Earth's materials from one place to another.
Erosion
What percentage of the Earth's water is freshwater?
3%
A substance that keeps its size and shape. Molecules are closely bound together.
A solid
A change in which a new substance is formed
Chemical change
Chemical Weathering
What is another name for the geosphere
The Lithosphere
The ability to transmit heat, sound or electricity
Conductivity
A change in which no new substance is formed.
Physical change
The openings in the Earth's crust that allow hot, melted rock (magma), ash and gases to erupt outward.
Volcano