What is the Geosphere?
The mostly solid, rock part of Earth.
What is the Geosphere?
What is the part of Earth that is liquid water?
The hydrosphere is.What is the part of Earth that is liquid water?
What is the Biosphere?
Made up of living things and the areas of Earth where they are found.
What would an unbalanced energy budget increase or decrease.
Global Warming.
What is Earth’s energy budget?
A way to keep track of energy that transfers into and out of the system.
The thin, rigid, outermost layer of Earth.
What is Crust?
What covers 71% of Earths surface?
The ocean
What supports life in the biosphere?
Rocks, soil, oceans, lakes, rivers, and a stable source of energy.
What are two things that can disturb Earths energy budget
An increase in greenhouse gases and decrease in polar ice caps.
What happens to the energy when it is transferred to another sphere.
The energy does not destroy or created anew.
The hot layer of rock between Earths crust and core.
What is the mantle?
What does the hydrosphere include?
Lakes, rivers, and marshes.
Where do the organisms get their energy?
Plants, water, food, and sunlight.
What do greenhouse gases do?
True or False? A fraction of the energy of energy on earth comes from the Atmosphere.
False
The Earths center.
What is Core?
How does the Earth constantly move?
It moves through ocean currents, living things, and rain water.
Is Moderate temperature important for living things to survive.
True
What happens when snow and ice melts?
The exposed water and land would absorb it
True or False? the sun is our main source of energy
True
What are the Earths layers from top to bottom.
What are Crust, Mantle, and Core?
How much of water on the Earth is salt water?
It is 97%.
What is the food chain?
A stable source of energy that is important for life.
What do the ice caps do.
They absorb solar radiation preventing climate changes.
True or False? When energy from Earth is balanced global temperatures rise.
False