Stumping Spheres
How many major spheres are there?
Four
When does the carbon cycle stop?
It never stops!
Climate is the study of day-to-day changes in the atmosphere (True or False)
False
Are shallow currents warm or cold?
Warm
The sphere that contains all living things is called?
The Biosphere
How does carbon move from the atmosphere to the ocean?
The seawater dissolves carbon dioxide
Averaging out the weather data of a location over an extended period of time is how you find what?
That locations climate
What does 'thermo' and 'haline' mean?
Heat and Salt
Oceans, lakes, rivers and ice caps are all part of which sphere?
The hydrosphere
The term used for when carbon is moved from place to place is called?
Processes
What is albedo?
The amount of energy reflected by a surface
What are gyres?
Large systems of circular surface ocean currents
Erosion of the lithosphere primarily comes from its interaction with which spheres?
The hydrosphere and atmosphere
The atmosphere, vegetation and ocean are examples of which parts of the carbon cycle?
Carbon stores
How many degrees is the Earth tilted from vertical?
23.5 degrees
How are deep water currents formed?
By colder and saltier (denser) water being formed at the polar regions
Which region of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?
The Stratosphere
The _______ holds 60 times more carbon than the atmosphere?
Ocean
CO2 and other gases trapping heat in the atmosphere is called the __________ ______.
Greenhouse Effect
What impacts the Coriolis Effect?
The different rates at which the equator and poles are spinning