Earth's Spheres
It refers to the Earth system that includes all living things. (plants, animals, humans)
Biosphere
The ozone layer protects us from harmful UV rays from the Sun. What layer of the atmosphere is ozone layer located?
Stratosphere
This is the solid part of Earth's crust that consists of all rocks and soils, and sediments on Earth's crust.
Geosphere
What Earth's spheres are interacting between the habitat for animals and home to plants (soil).
biosphere and geosphere
Specify the amount of the gases in the Earth.
Nitrogen ____%
Oxygen _____%
Other gases ___%
21, 78, 1
It is the layer of the atmosphere where people live, and where the weather disturbances occur
Troposphere
A collection of parts that are working together.
System
Which layers of the atmosphere are the hottest?
Thermosphere
What is the hydrosphere?
The system that includes all of the water on, under or above Earth
What layer of Earth's atmosphere do we live on?
Troposphere
What sphere is glaciers, which include alpine glaciers, ice caps, and the ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica?
Cryosphere
Earth has 4 systems. Which system has many landforms?
Geosphere
What is the atmosphere?
The system that includes all of the layers of gasses that surround the Earth
Meteors burn in this layer of the atmosphere.
Mesosphere
What absorbs ultraviolet rays in the stratosphere?
Ozone layer
What is a sphere that you have an interdependent (Attached) relationship with?
Geosphere- we live on the geosphere
Biosphere- friends, family, plants & animals that we eat.
Atmosphere- We breathe air in the atmosphere, protect from UV rays, protect from meteors
Hydrosphere- water we use to drink, shower, swim in.
How might the biosphere be affected if a harmful substance entered the geosphere?
The biosphere may be affected because plants live in the soil which is apart of the geosphere. Plants can die due to the harmful substance in the soil. Animals can also eat organisms that live in the soil or use the soil as their habitat.
How does Earth's atmosphere protect us. What would happen if we didn't have an atmosphere?
Our atmosphere contains the air that we breathe, our atmosphere (ozone layer) protects us from the sun’s harmful rays, atmosphere protects us from meteors coming to Earth's surface.
How does the geosphere & hydrosphere interact?
Geosphere depends on water for soil, geosphere is eroding and weathered due to rain, lakes, oceans.
Why is the Greenhouse Effect bad for Earth?
Leads to flooding, glaciers melt, evaporating of habitats (ponds, lakes, etc.) , plants/animals can die in extreme heat.