Biosphere
Prefix bio meaning
What is "life"?
Prefix Hydro Meaning
What is "Water" ?
Prefix Atmo Meaning
What is "Air"?
Prefix geo meaning
What is "Rock"?
Main source of energy for the water cycle
What is the Sun?
Benefits of the atmosphere
What is CO2 for plants and Oxygen for most animals?
Percentage of salt water on Earth
What is 97.5%?
Percentages of Gases
78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen 1% Trace gases
Geosphere interacting with the hydrosphere
What is infiltration?
Formation of Metamorphic rocks
What is formed under high heat and pressure?
Location of life on Earth
What are the geosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere?
Percentage of Ground water
What is 20%?
Interaction between hydrosphere and atmosphere
What is condensation (clouds)?
How rocks move
What is erosion, uplift, and gravity?
Sequence of events to form a sedimentary rock
What is Weathering --> Erosion --> Deposition?
Describe a rainstorm interacting with the systems.
What happens when the water from the hydrosphere comes from the atmosphere and is absorbed into the biosphere and geosphere?
Interaction with the rock cycle?
What is weathering and erosion?
What is the (from ground up) troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
Define rock
What is a naturally occurring solid composed of minerals and sometimes other materials?
Recycles water from the biosphere to atmosphere
What is transpiration?
Two-way cause and effect relationship between an event and a sphere
What is an interaction?
Gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
Weather vs Climate
What is a short term example vs an average pattern?
All spheres are connected
What causes a change in one sphere can cause a change in one or more of the other spheres.
Process before igneous rocks are formed
What is cooling and crystalizing of magma?