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Vocabulary
Interacting Spheres
Miscellaneous
100
The layer of the Earth that includes living organisms
What is biosphere?
100

This sphere includes all the air around the earth

What is the atmosphere?

100
Three atoms of oxygen are chemically bonded to form an ozone molecule. What layer of the atmosphere are these molecules found absorbing the ultraviolet solar radiation?
What is Stratosphere layer?
100

Sometimes fires burn down large areas of forests that are part of the biosphere. Which of Earth’s other system is MOST likely to be affected? 

Atmosphere

100

What is the closest layer of atmosphere to Earth's surface?

The troposphere

200

All of the water on earth

What is hydrosphere?

200
This sphere includes all the liquid water on earth.
What is hydrosphere?
200
The warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of earth that occurs when water vapor, carbon dioxide and other gases absorb and reradiate thermal energy
What is greenhouse effect?
200

Which spheres interact when Florida’s orange trees grow? 

Biosphere, hydrosphere, & atmosphere

200

Even though Carbon Dioxide is a small percentage of the Earth’s atmosphere it greatly influences the __________ of the atmosphere. 

 heating

300
78% of this sphere is Nitrogen
What is atmosphere?
300

Name the layer where the ozone is located

What is stratosphere?

300
The measure of force with which air molecules push on a surface
What is air pressure?
300

Amber is walking down the sidewalk & the wind is blowing her hair & skirt. Which parts of the Earth system are interacting?

atmosphere & biosphere

300

Which layer of the atmosphere is the hottest?

The thermosphere

400

The layer of the atmosphere where weather takes place…

What is troposphere?

400

Which sphere would the ocean's sealife be in? 

Biosphere

400

The atmosphere is a boundary between Earth & outer space. What is the atmosphere? 

The layer of gas that surrounds Earth

400

While out on a walk by the river Emanuel noticed a bird fishing in the water and a raccoon feeding on the bank river. Which statement best describes an interaction of the spheres he is looking at?

the biosphere gets matter from the hydrosphere

400

Of the following gases named, which one can trap the greatest amount of heat?

Carbon dioxide (it is a greenhouse gas)

500

List all 4 spheres

What is Biosphere Hydrosphere Geosphere(lithosphere)  Atmosphere ?

500

Name the five layers of the atmosphere from lowest to highest:

What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere

500

The atmosphere contains an abundance of gases. What are the 2 gases with the highest percentages? 

Nitrogen 78% & Oxygen 24%

500

Rico is at the beach watching the waves. Which of sphere interacts with the hydrosphere to produce the waves at the beach? 

Atmosphere

500

Ozone is a gas found mostly in the upper atmosphere. What is the main benefit of ozone? 

Ozone filters out ultraviolet radiation from the sun & shields Earth from some of this harmful energy