Earth's Spheres
This is Earth's sphere where all of life is
What is the biosphere?
This more common name of this cycle is...
What is the water cycle?
True or False: Carbon is essential for the formation of fossil fuels
What is true?
Nitrogen is essential for this to grow
What are plants?
This is a sequential process that repeats itself, then returns to its beginning and repeats itself over and over
What is a cycle?
This is Earth's non-living sphere. Made up of rock, soil, and landforms
What is the geosphere?
This is the definition for evaporation
What is liquid water being heated by the sun, then turning into water vapor?
These two places store high amounts of carbon
Oceans, atmosphere, ecosystems, fossil fuels, and rocks
This natural process on Earth is very important in making nitrogen usable for plants (hint...Storms)
What is lightning?
Organisms interacting with each other and their enviornment
What is an ecosystem?
This is Earth's sphere that wraps around Earth to keep the heat and essential gasses in, while keeping harmful UV rays out
What is the Atmosphere?
This is the definition for condensation
What is water vapor cooling and turning back into liquid water, forming clouds?
This is the term for breathing; this adds Carbon (CO2) back into the atmosphere
What is respiration?
True or False: plants can use nitrogen from the atmosphere without any fixing
What is false?
This term is used to describe an event that quickly alters Earth's history
What is catastrophism?
This is the sphere that includes all water
What is the hydrosphere?
This is the definition of runoff
What is water running off areas of high altitude, then collecting in bodies of water (lakes, oceans, rivers)?
This is the process that plants use to take Carbon (CO2) out of the air, turn it into sugar to feed themselves, then give off oxygen
What is photosynthesis?
This term describes how nitrogen is fixed so plants can use it
What is nitrogen fixation?
This is the key term for the 8 pieces of Earth's crust that move, causing earthquakes, volcanoes, and other events
What is tectonic plates?
This is an example of the hydrosphere and the biosphere interacting
What is animals (biosphere) need to drink water to survive (hydrosphere)?
This is the definition for transpiration
What is plants opening up their cells to release water into the atmosphere?
This is the term for Carbon getting buried, then turning into fossil fuels over long periods of time
What is sedimentation?
This man-made item is mainly made up of Nitrogen and helps plants grow
What is fertilizer?
This term is used to describe the slow change of Earth that happens over a long period of time
What is gradualism?