Earth's Major Systems
How many major systems does Earth have?
4
What is the conversion of liquid water from oceans, lakes, and streams into water vapor (gas) by solar heat?
Evaporation
What percent of water on Earth is salt water?
97%
What is a nonrenewable resource mined from the ground?
Coal
What is it called when we use a material more than once?
Reuse
What do we call it when a material goes from a solid to a liquid?
Melting
What is a system made up of air?
Atmosphere
What is it called when water vapor cools in the atmosphere and changes into liquid water, forming clouds?
Condensation
What do you call the dry side of a mountain that doesn't receive much water?
Rain shadow
What are structures used to generate electricity from moving water?
Dams
What is it called when we use materials in old things to make new things?
Recycle
How many states has Mr. Lagge been to?
27
What is a system that includes all living things or life?
Biosphere
What is it called when water released from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, returning to the Earth's surface?
Precipitation
Most of Earth's fresh water is contained in what?
Glaciers/Ice
What do you call the cutting down of trees?
Deforestation
What is it called when we use less of a material?
Reduce
What is an organism that makes it's own food?
Producer
What is a system that includes all of Earth's water?
What is it called when water that does not soak into the ground but instead moves across the land surface, flowing into rivers, lakes, and oceans?
Runoff
What move heat energy away from the equator and towards the poles?
Ocean currents
What system move water to grow food and crops?
Irrigation
What is located on the bottom of plastic materials to let you know where to recycle them?
What's Mr. Lagge's favorite college football team?
Nebraska Huskers
What is a system that includes the solid part of Earth?
Geosphere
What is the movement of water from the ground surface into the soil and deeper into aquifers?
Infiltration
What do you called the ocean level that receives a little light?
Twilight Zone
What is a substance farmers spray on crops to kill insects?
Pesticides
What is innovative ways of using resources to minimize human impact on the enviornment?
Green technology
What is made up of all the living and nonliving system that surround an affect an organism?
Environment