Geosphere
What is the outermost layer of the Earth called?
Answer: What is the crust?
What gas do plants take in from the atmosphere to make food?
What is carbon dioxide?
What do we call all the living organisms on Earth?
What is the biosphere?
What is the term for water moving from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere?
What is evaporation?
Which layer of the Earth is made of semi-solid rock and flows slowly?
What is the mantle?
Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?
What is the stratosphere?
Which process allows plants to make their own food using sunlight?
What is photosynthesis?
Which process involves water vapor cooling to form liquid water?
What is condensation?
What do we call the process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces?
What is weathering?
What is the term for the mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth?
What is the atmosphere?
What is the term for a place where an organism lives?
What is a habitat?
What do we call the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface?
What is the water cycle?
Which natural disaster occurs when there is a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust?
What is an earthquake?
Which gas is most abundant in the Earth's atmosphere?
What is nitrogen?
Which part of the biosphere includes all the plants and animals?
What is the living part of the biosphere?
Which part of the water cycle involves water falling to the Earth's surface?
What is precipitation?
What is the term for the movement of Earth's plates that leads to the formation of mountains?
What is plate tectonics?
What do we call the process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere?
What is transpiration?
What do we call the role an organism plays in its ecosystem?
What is a niche?
What is the term for the movement of water through soil and into underground reservoirs?
What is infiltration?