Name That Sphere
The 4 main spheres of the Earth system.
What are the hydrosphere, geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?
A deer drinks from a lake.
What are the hyrdosphere and biosphere?
The source of energy for the water cycle.
What is the sun?
One of these is not like the others: volcano, magma, lava, ocean.
What is ocean?
The water from a waterfall pounds against rocks, weathering them over time.
What is destructive?
All of Earth's water, including water that cycles through the atmosphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
Wind blows sand off a dune.
What are the atmosphere and the geosphere?
How water from a lake becomes rain.
The sun evaporates the water and then it condenses into a cloud and becomes rain.
One of these is not like the others: mountain, plateau, dune, lake.
What is lake?
Sand is deposited onto a dune, causing it to grow over time.
What is constructive?
The parts of Earth that contain all living organisms are collectively known as__________.
What is the biosphere?
Rocks are worn down by water flowing over them.
What is the hydrosphere and the geosphere?
Salt water in lakes, seas, and the ocean make up this percentage of the hydrosphere.
What is 97%?
One of these is not like the others: sediment, pond, ice, rain
What is sediment?
An erupting volcano breaks apart the earth's surface, and the lava hardens as it cools or form new land.
What is both?
Earth's relatively thing envelope of gases that forms Earth's outermost layer.
What is the atmosphere?
Magma erupts through a volcano, sending ash and gases into the air.
What is the geosphere and the atmosphere?
Two ways to add water vapor to the atmosphere.
What are evaporation and transpiration?
A landform with high elevation and high relief formed by material of the geosphere.
What is a mountain?
The rushing Colorado River weathers and erodes rock while creating the Grand Canyon.
What is both?
Most of Earth's mass in the form of rock and metal, including the solid metal inner core, the liquid metal outer core, and the rocky mantle and crust.
What is the geosphere?
An airplane emits fumes as it flies.
What are the biosphere and atmosphere?
This replenishes groundwater.
What is precipitation or melting glaciers?
A relatively flat region that is not very high above sea level.
What is a coastal plain?
Cattle graze on grass loosening soil.
What is destructive?