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?
How does the Biosphere need the Atmosphere
What is to breathe and for protection from the sun.
How does the Atmosphere change the Geosphere
What is wind erosion
Water is found on Earth in what three states?
What are Solid, Liquid, or Gas
What is the Atmosphere?
What is all the gasses on the Earth?
True or False: Earth's systems rely on one another.
What is true?
Which is not part of the biosphere?
plants, humans, bacteria, water
What is water?
Scientists refer the the material that plants grown in as _____________.
What is soil?
The process by which water moves through the Earth and Atmosphere
What is the Water Cycle?
What is the effect of burning fossil fuels to the Atmosphere?
What is an increase of greenhouse gasses, heating up the earth?
All of Earth's systems ___________, or work together.
What is interact?
How does energy flow through an ecosystem? Think energy-matter cycle.
What is the sun's energy, producers, consumers decomposers? Or What is the sun's energy, producers, decomposers?
The process by which rocks change into other types of rocks (metamorphic to igneous to sedimentary, etc)
What is the rock cycle
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?
What is a HUGE interaction between the Atmosphere and Hydrosphere
What are tropical storms/hurricanes?
A group of parts/ things that interact and work together to perform a job or function.
What is a system?
How do nutrients get in the soil?
Earth is made up of layers, what are those layers?
What are the Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core
The term for stored water underground?
What is groundwater?
The main gases that make up our atmosphere:
What are Nitrogen (78%), Oxygen (21%), Carbon Dioxide, and Water Vapor