Earth Spheres 1
Earth Spheres 2
Earth Spheres 3
Earth Spheres 4
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What are the Earth's spheres?
biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere
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What are 3 examples of biosphere?
animals, plants, humans (answers vary)
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What does the word bio mean
Life
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Which sphere is shown?
Cryosphere
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Which sphere?
hyrdosphere
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Air next to the ground becomes warm. What two interactions are happening?
atmosphere and geosphere
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A thunderstorm is a connection between:
Atmosphere-Hydrosphere
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Which spheres are interacting?
Hydrosphere (ocean) is eroding the rocks (geosphere)
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A tree is blown down by wind. What two spheres are interacting with one another
biosphere and atmosphere
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The rock, dust, soil, and minerals of the Earth's solid crust and outer mantle make up the ____
geosphere
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Melting of icebergs causing a release of fresh water into the oceans is an interaction between which spheres?
cryosphere and hydrosphere
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Which sphere contains the ozone layer which helps protect us from harmful radiation.
Atmosphere
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Lightning strikes a park ranger. What two spheres are interacting with one another?
biosphere and atmosphere
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Which three spheres are interacting?
The plant (biosphere) receives nutrients from soil (geosphere) and water (hydrosphere) from the rain to grow.
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After a forest fire the loss of plant life causes the land to become more vulnerable to erosion. Which spheres are affected?
biosphere and geosphere
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What are the two main systems, or spheres, of Earth involved in the water cycle?
Atmosphere and hydrosphere
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Earth’s spheres interact in many ways. What is one way that the hyrdosphere and biosphere interact?
watering the plants so that they are able to grow (answers vary)
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Layla added a piece of ice to the terrarium and sealed it. Which of the following explains a possible interaction as a result of adding the ice?
The ice (cryoshpere) would cool the air (atmosphere), and melt over time providing water to the plants (biosphere)
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As you go higher in the troposphere (part of the atmosphere), the temperature _______________.
decreases
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When plants and animals decompose, they release nutrients into the soil. The nutrients in the soil help future plants grow. Which of Earth's spheres are interacting?
biosphere and geosphere