Earth's Spheres
Earth's Atmosphere
Earth's Systems
Mixed Bag
100
What is the biosphere?
The Earth system that includes all living things. (plants, animals, humans)
100
What is the layer closest to the earth that contains clouds, weather, birds, and the air we breathe.
T____________
Troposphere
100
What are the layers of Earth's geosphere?
C__________
U______ M_____
L______ M_____
O______ C_____
I______ C_____
100
How do the geosphere & biosphere interact?
Answers vary.
200
What is the Geopsphere?
The Earth system that includes all non-living things (rocks, minerals, sediments ,etc.)
200
Which layer contains the ozone layer and is where planes fly because there is no weather?
S__________
Stratosphere
200
The warming of the earth is the G_________ H_________ E _________.
Green House Effect
200
How does the geosphere & hydrosphere interact?
Answers vary.
300
What is the hydrosphere?
The system that includes all of the water on, under or above Earth
300
Which cold layer do meteors start to burn in because of friction with the gases there?
M______________
Mesophere
300
Distinguish
To make a clear difference
300
What is the order of the layers of the atmosphere? CLOSEST to FARTHEST from Earth.
T______, S______, M______, T______, E______
troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere
400
What is the atmosphere?
The system that includes all of the layers of gasses that surround the Earth
400
Which layer is farthest from Earth and contains helium hydrogen, and lots of empty space?
EX____________
Exosphere
400
The earth's spheres are interdependent.
What does interdependent mean?
To depend on one another
400
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 suns harmful rays, atmosphere protects us from meteors coming to Earth's surface.