Layers of the Atmosphere
The source of energy for the water cycle
What is the sun?
This sphere includes all the rocks, mountains, and landforms on Earth’s surface.
What is the geosphere?
This is the name of the layer of gases that surrounds Earth and makes life possible
What is the atmosphere?
The base unit used to measure the mass of an object?
What is grams?
water vapor released from plant life?
What is transpiration?
The Great Barrier Reef, home to thousands of marine species, is part of this Earth sphere
What is the biosphere?
his gas makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere, making it the most abundant.
What is nitrogen?
The part of a microscope that you look through?
What is the eye piece?
The layer where most of meteors and asteroids are burned up
What is mesosphere?
Glaciers, groundwater, and humidity are all components of this sphere
What is the hydrosphere?
This gas, the third most abundant in the atmosphere, is used in neon lights despite being colorless and odorless.
What is argon?
The amount of space an object takes up?
What is volume?
Water moving within the soil?
What is percolation?
During a thunderstorm, lightning strikes a tree, causing it to catch fire. This event demonstrates interactions between which spheres?
What are the atmosphere, biosphere and geosphere?
This gas, though variable in concentration, is a key component of the water cycle and plays a major role in weather patterns.
What is water vapor?
What two factors affect the gravitational force of a planet?
What is the size and mass of the planet?
Gasses are exchanged between the land, ocean and life.
What is mesosphere?
What is the troposphere?
water vapor in the air cools and turns into tiny water droplets or ice crystals, which then clump together to become visible as clouds
What is condensation?
When a hurricane forms over the ocean and causes destruction on land, these three spheres are interacting.
What are the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere?
As altitude decreases, what happens to air pressure and the number of air molecules?
What is air pressure increases and the number of air molecules increases?
The term used to describe the times it takes Earth to spin on its axis?
What is rotation?