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Earth's Spheres
Miscellaneous
100

The introduction of harmful materials into the environment.

What is pollution?

100

These are the four characteristics that define a biome.

What are soil, temperature, amount of light, and amount of water?
100

grassland, few trees, little rainfall, tropical climate

What is savanna?
100

This is made of the gasses surrounding Earth.

What is the atmosphere?

100

These are the two main things that drive economics.

What is supply and demand?

200

The daily changes of temperature and precipitation.

What is weather?

200

cold or hot/dry, little vegetation, nocturnal animals

What is a desert?

200

cold, treeless, ground permanently frozen

What is tundra?

200

This is made of all the water on Earth's surface, underground, and in the air.

What is the hydrosphere?

200

This includes all living and nonliving things with which they interact.

What is the environment?

300
The weather in a particular location over a long period of time.

What is climate?

300

large, rolling terrain, many grasses, few trees, fire

What is a grassland?

300
four distinct seasons, many trees, camouflage

What is a deciduous forest?

300

This is made of rocks, minerals, and soil.

What is the geosphere/lithosphere?

300

When a shared resource is unregulated, individuals will consume it at a selfish rate.

What is the Tragedy of the Commons?

400

An area of the planet that can be classified according to the plants and animals that live in it.

What is a biome?

400

mountainous, cold, small vegetation, animals have insulation

What is an alpine?

400

year-round warmth, near Equator, rainy and dry seasons

What is a rainforest?

400

This is the portion of Earth where life is found.

What is the biosphere?

400

Humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to raise livestock and plant crops.

What is the Agricultural Revolution?

500

These resources take a long time to replenish.

What are nonrenewable resources?

500

hot and dry, mild winter, fire and drought is common

What is chaparral?

500
cold, animals hibernate, largest biome, coniferous trees

What is taiga?

500
This is the portion of the hydrosphere that is frozen.

What is the cryosphere?

500

The production of machinery allowed for advances in medicine, agriculture, etc.

What is the Industrial Revolution?