Earth Spheres 1
What are the Earth's spheres?
biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere
What are 3 examples of biosphere?
animals, plants, humans
What does the word bio mean
Life
what is the meaning of the word Atmos?
Air
What is a landform?
Landform are features such as coastlines, mountains,and dunes. Different landforms have different combinations of elevation
Which sphere contains water?
hyrdosphere
Air next to the ground becomes warm. What two interactions are happening?
atmosphere and geosphere
Tectonic plates belong to which sphere?
geosphere
Name 3 things that belong to the geosphere
rock, magma, sand, etc.
A volcano blasting its top into bits of rock and ash. Which spheres are interacting in this situation?
geo and atmos.
A tree is blown down by wind. What two spheres are interacting with one another
biosphere and atmosphere
The rock, dust, soil, and minerals of the Earth's solid crust and outer mantle make up the ____
geosphere
What is precipitation?
When water in a cloud falls down to Earth because of gravity.
What is a mountain?
A landform with high Elevation?
Sediment, sand and dirt piling up at the mouth of a river delta. Which sphere are interacting in this situation?
Geo and hydro
Which sphere does the Ozone layer belong to?
Atmosphere
What is topography?
The shape of the land from above.
What is a coastline?
A boundary between land and the ocean.
What is the term for the fozen part of hydrosphere?
Cryosphere
Tree roots growing into a crack in a rock and splitting it into smaller pieces is an example of this. Which sphere are interacting in this situation?
Geo and Bio
What is the name of the step of the water cycle in which liquid water becomes a gas?
evaporation
How are dunes and deltas similar?
How are they different?
They are both made of sand and sediment?
Dunes are formed wind.
Deltas are formed by water.
Which sphere is important to keep Earth's temperature from being extremely hot or cold?
the Atmosphere
Name one interaction between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere.
condensation, evaporation, precipitation.
A thunderstorm is a connection between which spheres?
Atmos and geosphere.