Earth's Spheres
What is the biosphere?
The Earth system that includes all living things. (plants, animals, humans)
Which sphere is made of different gases?
The atmosphere
What are the parts of Earth's geosphere?
Crust, Upper Mantle, Lower Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core.
How does the geosphere & biosphere interact?
Geosphere is a habitat for animals, geosphere is home to plants (soil). We live on the geosphere.
Physical change in matter from a liquid to a gas in the water cycle
Evaporation
What is the Geopshere?
The Earth system that includes all non-living things (rocks, minerals, sediments ,etc.)
There is only one layer of air in the atmosphere. True or False
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 the geosphere & hydrosphere interact?
Geosphere depends on water for soil, geosphere is eroding and weathered due to rain, lakes, oceans.
Physical change in matter from a gas to a liquid in the water cycle.
Condensation
What is the hydrosphere?
The system that includes all of the water on, under or above Earth
What is a sphere that you have an interdependent 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.
What's the difference between the biosphere and the geosphere?
The biosphere contains all living organisms. The geosphere contains non living organisms.
How does the hydrosphere and atmosphere interact?
Once water from the hydrosphere gets heated by the sun, it evaporates up into the atmosphere forming clouds. Once clouds become too full of water vapor and the temperature decreases, they will condense which brings precipitation down back to the hydrosphere
Water that falls to the earth in a solid (snow, hail) or liquid (rain) form.
Precipitation
What is the atmosphere?
The system that includes all of the layers of gasses that surround the Earth
When a volcano erupts how does the ash from the eruption interact with the hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere?
When the ash goes into the atmosphere, it can block sunlight from reaching Earth's surface. No sunlight means that plants can't make their own food - which affects the biosphere. Ash can also go into the water cycle through rain or falling into streams or rivers.
Interdepentent
To depend on one another
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.
True
What is a system?
A collection of parts that are working together.
What part of Earth's layer do we live on?
Crust, Upper Mantle, Lower Mantle, Outer Core, or Inner Core
The Crust
Earth has 4 systems. Which system has many landforms?
Geosphere
Define interact
to act upon one another
Loss of water from plant leaves through their pores and ascends up into the atmosphere
Transpiration