Hydrosphere
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail
What is precipitation?
When rock is broken down by running water, chemical reactions, wind, or temperature changes
What is the layer of air between the surface of the air and outer space?
What is the atmosphere?
This is the sphere that contains all living things including bacteria, protozoa and fungi
What is the biosphere?
When humans dump toxic waste into the ocean and pollute it, these are the two major spheres interacting.
What are the biosphere and hydrosphere?
When some of the water from a lake, river, or ocean becomes water vapor
What is evaporation?
When particles of rock, called sediment, are carried away by wind or water
What is erosion?
We need this gas from from the atmosphere to breathe
What is oxygen?
The major environments around the world including aquatic, forest, grassland, desert, and tundra
What are biomes?
Landslides are frequently caused by the geosphere and the hydrosphere. However, landslides frequently impact this sphere
What is biosphere?
When some of the water in a lake gets so cold that it hardens and floats on the surface
What is freezing?
This is a set of processes that describe how one rock type may become another over thousands of years, and can be represented in a diagram
What is rock cycle?
This gas in the atmosphere is important for plants and their ability to photosynthesize
What is carbon dioxide?
The amount of a specific type of organism in a community
What is population?
What are the three major spheres that interact during erosion?
What are atmosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere?
When the snow on the tops of mountains melts or there is rain uphill and collects on its way down the mountain on its way to a lake or ocean
What is runoff?
This type of rock is the most likely to contain fossils. It is made from compressed sediments.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is the most common molecule of gas in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
These types of organisms, including plants and some bacteria, are able to use the sun's energy to make their own food.
What is a producer?
Humans try to mitigate damage and danger from natural disasters because they cannot be ___________.
What is prevented?
An underground reservoir of groundwater
What is an aquifer?
This is the layer of the Earth between the crust and the Core
What is the mantle?
This layer of the atmosphere is where most weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
This type of organism cannot directly use the sun's energy, so it must eat other organisms
What is a consumer?
When the atmosphere pushes clouds in the hydrosphere up against a mountain in the geosphere, the rain falls on one side of the mountain. On the other side, it is dry and receives very little precipitation.
What is a rain shadow?