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What are the four "spheres" of Earth?
Biosphere geosphere Atmosphere Hydrosphere
What is the process in which water turns from a liquid to a gas?
Evaporation
Wearing away and movement of rock and sediment, often by water, wind, glaciers, and waves.
Erosion
Over millions of years, the carbon in dead plants and animals that are put under heat and pressure are converted into
Fossil Fuels
Natural event that can cause damage
Natural Hazard
What is the sphere containing all life on earth?
Biosphere
What is the process called when small water droplets form on small particles on dirt in the sky?
Condensation
The largest carbon "sink" in the world is
ocean
The physical breaking down of rocks
What is weathering
Preparedness
What is the sphere containing all of the water on earth including oceans, streams, lakes, and ponds?
Hydrosphere
What is it called when water drifts off the surface of the land toward rivers, lakes, or ocean
runoff
This is one way that humans alter the carbon cycle. This allows us to generate electricity, power cars, and run factories.
Burning Fossil Fuels
The process by which carbon is moved from dead animals to the ground
What is decomposition
Using resource without harming future generation
Sustainability
What is the sphere containing the air, clouds, and weather?
Atmosphere
A naturally abundant, nonmetallic element that occurs in all organic compounds and can be foudn in all known forms of life.
Carbon
What is the energy source that drives the water and carbon cycles?
The sun
Includes living things and their environment
ecosystem
Protecting natural resources
Conservation
What is the sphere containing all of the rocks, dirt, and soil on Earth?
Geosphere
A chemical reaction that occurs when plants use carbon dioxide and energy from the sun to build sugar.
Photosynthesis
What is meant by "alternative" or "green" energy
Renewable Energy
Action taken to reduce hazard
Mitigation
Harmful substance entering the environment
pollution