Spheres 1
The meaning of 'bio' in Latin.
What is life?
The sphere which contains a mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The meaning of 'hydro' in Greek.
What is water?
The sphere of Earth which contains crusts of the Earth and Earth's interior.
What is the lithosphere?
What Earth's spheres are interacting between the habitat for animals and home to plants (soil).
What is the biosphere and lithosphere.
It refers to the Earth system that includes all living things. (plants, animals, humans)
What is the Biosphere?
The form of water that exists in the atmosphere.
What is water vapour?
2 places where water is found in the hydrosphere?
What is rivers, oceans, streams, creeks, etc...?
The sphere of the Earth which contains tectonic plates.
What is the lithosphere?
An interaction between the biosphere and hydrosphere.
E.g. animals drink water
The other spheres that living organisms can exist in/on.
What is the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere?
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
The percentage of water on Earth that is fresh.
What is 3%
Another name for lithosphere.
What is the geosphere?
An interaction between the lithosphere and hydrosphere.
E.g. rain on soil, erosion of rocks, etc.
A hierarchy or living organisms that the biosphere can be structured into.
What is a food chain?
The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere (give or take 1).
What is 21%?
True or False. Ice caps and glaciers are part of the hydrosphere.
What is true?
The 3 layers of the Earth.
What is the crust, mantle and core?
How humans interact with all spheres of the Earth?
•Atmosphere
•Lithosphere
•Hydrosphere
Atmosphere - breathing
Biosphere - eating
Lithosphere - living
Hydrosphere - drinking
A blue dot surrounded by a thin gaseous layer with clouds
What is earth?
3 layers of the atmosphere.
What are the exosphere, thermosphere, mesophere, stratosphere or troposphere.
The percentage of water which is drinkable on Earth.
What is 2.1%?
The thinnest layer of the lithosphere.
What is the crust?
Extends approximately 10 000 km from the surface of the earth
Atmosphere