Vocabulary
What is the prefix of Hydrosphere?
Water
What are the earth 4 spheres?
Hydro, Bio, Geo, and Atom.
Aqua is ________
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
What is the percent of ice water do we have on earth?
2 percent
What does Biosphere mean?
Where anything that has life can live.
Describe the role of the hydrosphere in the water cycle.
The water moves through the earth's atmosphere.
Weather Phenomena predicts the ________
Weather
Prefix is Earth's air such as oxygen, strong winds and the major part of weather phenomena.
Atmosphere
How much percentage of land do we have on Earth?
29 percent.
What does Weather Phenomena mean?
Weather prediction
How does the atmosphere influence weather predictions? (Just ONE)
Heavy winds.
Condensation - The process by which liquid water is transformed into water vapor and enters the _________
Atmosphere
The movement of water usually from precipitation, across the surface of the land and into bodies of water like rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Runoff
78 percent of nitrogen and 21 percent of oxygen
What does the runoff mean?
The movement of water
Why is it important for the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere to be in balance?
Geo prefix is ______ and an example of Geo is ________
1. Ground and dirt, soil, flowers.
All water found on, under and above the earth's surface.
What percentage do we have of fresh water?
1 percent
What does water cycle mean?
processes that work together to circulate water through the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
Provide ONE example of a weather event that involves the atmosphere.
Hurricanes
Precipitation - Any form of water, whether liquid or solid, that falls from the atmosphere to the __________
Earth's surface
key processes that work together to circulate water through the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
Water Cycle
What is percentage do we have of salty water?
97 percent