Four Spheres
What sphere contains all life on Earth?
Biosphere
Inner Core, Nickel
What layer does all life live in?
Troposphere
What are the three types of Water in the hydrosphere?
Surface water, Ground water, Water vapor
What does the prefix Bio- mean
Life?
What sphere contains all the water on Earth?
Hydrosphere
What is the second layer of the Geosphere? Is it solid or molten (liquid)?
Outer Core
Liquid
What is the hottest layer of the atmosphere?
Thermosphere
Name one surface water space
Ocean, Pond, River, etc.
What were the first species of life on Earth?
Plants
What sphere contains all the gas on Earth?
Atmosphere
What is the third layer, and what is its biggest purpose?
Mantle
Cooling down the temperatures
Where is the Ozone located, and where do we study weather?
Stratosphere
What are the pools of groundwater called that we pull our water from?
Aquifer
Why was the Biosphere the last sphere to form?
You need all the others for life.
What sphere contains all the rock on Earth?
Geosphere
What is the top layer called, and what do we call the plates that shift the top layer?
Crust
Tectonic Plates
What is the farthest layer of the atmosphere?
Exosphere
Name two of the three types of environmental disasters we talked about with the hydrosphere
Oil Spills
Trash Pollution
Fish Kills
What types of animals are on the IUCN Red List?
Endangered Species
What sphere formed first?
Geosphere
What are the two sections of the upper mantle?
Asthenosphere and Lithosphere
What two gases make up most of our atmosphere?
Nitrogen and Oxygen
Deepwater Horizon
What is it called if there are no more of an animal left?
Extinction or extinct