Earth Systems Miscellaneous
The number of interacting systems that make up our Earth.
What is 4?
The meaning of the latin root "geo"
What is rock/ Earth
The meaning of the latin root "atmo"
What is air
True or False: Earth's systems are important.
What is true?
A sphere that includes all the living things on Earth.
What is Biosphere?
The sphere that includes rocks and minerals, starting at the surface and going down the earth's core.
What is geosphere?
Water is found on Earth in what three states?
What are Solid, Liquid, or Gas
The amount of layers of the atmosphere
What is 5?
The term in which the top layer of soil gets carried away from one place to another.
What is soil erosion?
Which is not part of the biosphere?
plants, humans, bacteria, water
What is water?
Scientists refer this as the material that plants grown in _____________.
What is soil?
The process by which water moves through the Earth and Atmosphere
What is the Water Cycle?
This sphere includes all the gases surrounding the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
All of Earth's systems ___________, or work together.
What is interact?
The term used when people cut down lots of trees in a forest and not replanting them.
What is deforestation?
The number of layers of the Earth.
What is 5?
The process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas by heat (ex: The sun heats up water from the ocean)
What is evaporation?
This atmospheric layer protects us (Earth) from meteoroids.
What is the mesosphere?
When a place receives a lot of precipitation, the low-lying areas will likely experience ___________.
What is a flooding?
_______________ is basically a plant's way of sweating.
What is Transpiration?
Earth is made up of layers, what are those layers?
What are the Crust, Upper Mantle, Lower Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core
_______ provides the energy for the water cycle.
What is the sun?
Which layer contains the ozone layer.
What is the Stratosphere?