Spheres
The Greek/Latin prefix that means ground/land/earth.
What is geo?
The Greek/Latin prefix that means air.
What is atmo?
The Greek/Latin prefix that means water.
What is hydro?
The Greek/Latin prefix that means life or living things.
What is bio?
This is the amount of usable water found on Earth.
What is 2%?
Contains all the water on Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
Contains all the solid ground/land.
What is the geosphere?
These are the largest visible pieces of land on Earth.
What are the continents?
Contains all living things.
What is the biosphere?
This is the Greek/Latin root word that means 3-D ball.
What is a sphere?
Name the smallest organism to belong to this sphere.
What is bacteria and/or single celled organisms?
This is a list of all the layers of the Earth in order from the center outward.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, and crust?
The layer of Earth where humans do most of their living.
What is the crust or soil?
This is another name for usable water.
What is fresh water?
These are the tallest landforms found on Earth.
What are mountains?
Leaves, banana peels, grass clippings, and lettuce still considered part of the biosphere because...
What are they have not yet decomposed?
Although they are made mostly of water vapor, these fluffy cotton ball like objects are part of this sphere.
What are clouds?
This layer is also known by another name.
What is the lithosphere?
This sphere contains another sphere which contains the solid form of this sphere.
What is the cryosphere or frozen sphere?
This is a list of the most common fresh water sources.
What are rivers, lakes, ponds, and streams?
This is another name for the human sphere.
What is the anthrosphere?
This sphere changes the higher up in it you go.
What is gets thinner and colder?
This is a list of all the layer of Earth, in order from the center outward.
What is inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
This is the underground source of this sphere found in Kansas.
What is the Ogalala Aquifer or Aquifer?
This is another name for the crust or soil.
What is the pedosphere?