Spheres
What is the geosphere?
All of the rocks and dirt and mountains and stuff.
The mantle is full of magma.
True
What are three things we can do to help the planet?
Reduce, reuse, recycle (answers may vary)
Where do meteors burn up?
Mesosphere
What is the cryosphere?
All of the frozen water on the earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
All of the water on earth.
The biosphere is all of the water on the earth.
False, the biosphere is all the living things on earth.
What are biotic factors of an environment?
All of the living things within an environment (ex. animals, people, plants, fungi, protists, etc.)
What are three common gases associated with the atmosphere?
Oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen.
What percent of the earth's water is freshwater?
2.5% (3% if you round it)
What is the area where plates pull apart, collide/subduct, or slide past each other?
Plate boundaries.
75% of the freshwater is frozen.
False, 70% of freshwater is frozen.
How does the ozone layer help the earth?
It bats off bad UV rays from the sun.
Where is the ozone layer?
Stratosphere
How much of earth's water is saline water?
97.5% (97% if you choose to round them)
What is the atmosphere?
Our protection from outer space, layers of gases which surround the earth.
The two types of plates are continental and waterental.
False, the types are continental and oceanic.
What are abiotic factors of an environment?
The not living things in an environment (ex. rocks, dirt, mountains, weather, minerals, water, etc.)
Where do satellites hang out?
The exosphere.
What are things associated with the cryosphere?
Glaciers, ice caps, sea ice, ice shelves, icebergs, ice sheets, icicles, snow, permafrost, etc.
What are the levels of the food chain?
1. Primary producer
2. Primary consumer
3. Secondary consumer
4. Tertiary consumer
5. Apex predator
Does the anthrosphere have man-made things in it?
True
What is the lithosphere?
The section of the earth from the upper mantle to the crust.
Explain why the greenhouse effect is important to life on earth.
The carbon dioxide traps the heat which keeps us from freezing to death.
Name four things associated with the hydrosphere.
Lakes, rivers, oceans, ponds, swamps, bogs, streams, rain, etc.