Earth's Spheres
It refers to the Earth system that includes all living things (plants, animals, humans, etc.).
What is the biosphere?
It is the layer of the atmosphere where people live, and where the weather disturbances occur.
What is the troposphere?
The most abundant element in the geosphere.
What is oxygen?
3 reasons why water is so important to Earth.
What is (answers may vary, teacher discretion)?
The five ocean gyre (in no particular order)
What are the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, and Indian Ocean gyre?
All rocks found on an in Earth, including those that are solid and those that are molten, are found here.
What is the geosphere?
If this gas was missing in the stratosphere, we would be burned to a crisp.
What is the ozone layer?
The most abundant element in the hydrosphere.
What is hydrogen?
Most of the water found on Earth is located in these locations.
What are the oceans
Winds blow from regions of this pressure to that pressure.
What is high to low pressure?
The system that includes all of the water on, under, or above Earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
Nitrogen is the most abundant element in the atmosphere and occurs at this percent.
What is 78%?
Abundance is measured in these two ways.
What is percent volume and percent mass?
The cyclical pattern that water moves through due to the sun.
What is the water cycle?
The two kinds of belts, found from the equator and altering at 30N/S and 60 N/S.
What are wet/low and high/dry belts?
This sphere contains the nitrogen, oxygen, and ozone, among other gases.
What is the atmosphere?
Temperature does this in each layer of the atmosphere.
Acceptable Answer: It rises and falls based on altitude
Double Jeopardy Answer: In the troposphere, temperature goes decreases with altitude. In the stratosphere, temperature increases with altitude. In the mesosphere, temperature decreases with altitude. In the thermosphere, temperature increases with altitude.
This sphere has the greatest number of elements in it.
What is the geosphere?
Rain, snow, hail, and sleet are all examples of this step in the water cycle.
The three general categories of clouds, in order of lowest in altitude to highest.
What are stratus, alto, and cumulus clouds?
FINAL JEOPARDY: Name one way that the biosphere might be affected if a harmful substance enters the geosphere.
Answers will vary, teacher discretion will be used.
As altitude increases, this decreases.
What is atmospheric pressure?
These two elements are found in a 2:1 ratio in the hydrosphere, and explain why this is true.
What are hydrogen and oxygen, because a molecule of water is H2O (contains 2 hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom)?
The term for the evaporation of water through pores located on plants.
This effect causes winds to appear curved and dictates the direction of ocean gyre.
What is the Coriolis effect?