Earth Systems
All things living.
What is Biosphere?
First Nations believe that all parts of the ecosystem are ___________________.
What is connected?
This keeps the Earth warm.
What is sunlight?
To protect something.
What is conservation?
Includes all bodies of water including streams and rivers.
What is hydrosphere?
Indigenous people believe we need to give ___________ to our Earth to keep things in balance.
What is respect?
True or false - we can live without water and sunlight.
What is false?
The special group formed by the Canadian government to maintain and manage Canadian parks like Banff National Park.
What is Parks Canada?
The layer of air that surrounds our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
Indigenous people believe in living in ___________ with the environment.
What is harmony?
Another word for a living thing.
What is an organism?
Where animals or plants live.
What is habitat?
The outer layer of the Earth's surface.
What is the lithosphere?
Name four natural resources.
What is water, soil, metals, forests, minerals, air, organisms?
True or false - sunlight is most direct at the poles.
What is false? It is most direct at the equator.
This type of natural resource can run out.
What is non-renewable?
Name 3 human actions that could harm our environment and say which earth system would be affected most.
What is wildfires (atmosphere fill with smoke), water pollution with throwing bottles in (biosphere fish could die), etc.?
Indigenous people believe these are things nature provides as gifts of life.
What is natural resources?
Earth revolves around this.
What is the sun?
What are TWO non-renewable resources and TWO renewable resources found in Alberta?
What are....
Non-Renewable: Oil, gas, coal, mineralsRenewable: Water, trees, animals, plants