🌍 Earth’s Spheres
What is the biosphere?
The sphere that includes animals and plants
What is magma? Fill in the blank: Melted rock that is still (i_____) Earth
Melted rock that is still inside Earth
What is this: The thin outer layer of the Earth
crust
Name the THREE spheres you can see in this: A volcano erupts and affects air and animals.
geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
Describe what happens when a volcano erupts in terms of the 4 spheres.
What is: Lava on land (geo), ash in air (atmo), animals flee (bio), rain mixes with ash (hydro)?
What is the geosphere?
This sphere includes rocks, soil, and volcanoes.
What is lava? Fill in the blank: Melted rock that flows on Earth’s (s_____)
Melted rock that flows on Earth’s surface
What is this: Large slabs of crust that move
tectonic plates
Name the TWO spheres in this: A forest fire spreads smoke into the sky.
biosphere and atmosphere
Which sphere is this: Clouds forming before it rains.
Hydrosphere
Which sphere is this: A fish swimming in the ocean
Biosphere
What is an eruption?
When lava, gas, or ash bursts out of a volcano
What & Where is the mantle?
The thick layer beneath the Earth’s crust
Make an interaction between biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere.
Example: Tree roots grow into the soil and soak up water.
Describe what happens when a volcano erupts in terms of the 4 spheres.
Example: Lava on land (geo), ash in air (atmo), animals flee (bio), rain mixes with ash (hydro)?
Which sphere is this: Rain falling and filling a lake.
What is dormant?
A volcano that is not erupting now but could in the future
What are tectonic plates? Fill in the blanks: These are giant pieces of Earth’s crust that move and can cause (e_____) and (v_____).
These are giant pieces of Earth’s crust that move and can cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
Make an interaction between these THREE spheres: atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere
example: A hurricane moves across the ocean and floods cities.
What sphere is providing land and resources?
Geosphere
Which sphere is this: This sphere surrounds all the others and helps us breathe.
Atmosphere
What is this: A mountain that forms from erupting magma
Volcano
What is interaction?
This word means how things affect each other.
What spheres can you see in this: Tree roots grow into the soil and soak up water.
Biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere
Earthquakes and volcanoes are caused by this. What is this?
tectonic plate