Hydrosphere
These 2 are part of the hydrosphere.
What are rain and ice?
water, snow, glaciers, rivers, lakes...
These 2 are part of the biosphere.
What are tree and grass?
plants, fish...
These 5 gases make up the atmosphere.
What are nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, argon, and water vapor?
These 2 are part of the geosphere.
What are mountains and volcanoes?
When water changes from a gas (water
vapor) back to a liquid, the process is known as _____
What is condensation?
Saltwater can be found in ....
What are oceans and seas?
A group of organisms that
share many traits and are capable of
producing offspring that also share those
traits is called a ____________.
What is species?
This layer absorbs the type of ultraviolet light from the sun that is damaging to living things.
What is the ozone layer?
Scientists study this to learn more about Earth itself.
What is geology?
The dynamic movement of water on,
below, and above Earth’s surface is called
this.
What is the water cycle?
Freshwater can be found in....
What are rain, ice, glaciers, streams, rivers, and some lakes?
An organization of living things by levels according to how similar they are.
What is taxonomy?
This reason makes it harder
to survive at high altitudes.
What is air particles are more spread out as altitude increases?
This processes has helped shape
Earth’s surface over a long period of time.
What is the rock cycle?
The different forms of precipitation are these.
What are rain, snow, sleet, freezing
rain, or hail?
This is an example of a salt water lake in _____.
What is the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
These factors influence
life in a biome.
What are climate, type of soil and amount of water?
These 2 are affected by an increase in altitude.
What are air temperature and air pressure?
This means relating to our planet’s
rocky inner and outer features.
What is geologic?
Volcanic eruptions have created islands such as __________.
What is Hawaii?
Where ocean water backs up into freshwater streams and rivers, the water becomes this.
What is brackish?
One big difference between biomes and ecosystems is ________
What is the fact that a biome contains all the ecosystems in a broad climate region?
These are the 6 different layers of the atmosphere.
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere, and exosphere?
When the rock breaks, energy is
released in the form of _______ that cause the ground to
shake in an earthquake.
What are seismic waves?
Thunderstorms can form along the boundary
between these 2 air masses.
What are a cold air mass and a warm air mass?