Earths Systems
Layers of the Atmosphere
Earth's Energy
Interactions among earths systems
Vocabulary
100

All of the ice on earth is found in which sphere?

What is cryosphere?

100

Which 3 gases make up most of earth's atmosphere?

What is oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide?
100
Energy/Heat is transferred across circulating air/water

What is Convection

100

Two systems that interact for water cycle

What is hydrosphere and atmosphere?

100

The frozen portion of water on on earth's surface

What is Cryosphere?

200

Insulates the planet to keep it warm.

What is atmosphere?

200

Meteors burn in this atmospheric layer

What is mesosphere?

200

Energy/Heat is transferred across direct touch

What is conduction
200

Three systems that interact during the growth of a tree

What is hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere?

200

A layer ontop of our atmosphere that protects our planet from freezing

What is Green House effect

300

What sphere would contain plants and animals?

What is the biosphere

300
The stratosphere protects earth from what?

What is harmful radiation?

300
Energy transferred through empy space or electromagnetic waves

What is radiation

300

Which systems are interacting when a polar bear is standing on ice that is melting while trying to catch a fish to eat? 

What is cryosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?

300

The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere. 

What is the water cycle?

400

Two tectonic plates rubbing against one another and causing damage and breaking of rocks is called what

what is weathering

400

Weather occurs here. I regulate earths temperatures and I am the first layer of the atmosphere. Who am I?

What is Troposphere?
400

How is wind created

uneven/unequal heating and air rushing from high pressure to low pressure.

400

I am ice fishing in the Antarctic, the ice gives underneath me and I fall through. Which 3 systems are interacting?

What is cryosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?

400
A form of oxygen that protects us from ultraviolet radiation

What is the ozone layer?

500

What is the difference between chemical and physical weathering?

what is - physical weathering is a change in appearance, chemical weathering occurs when a reaction occurs.

500

Layers of the atmosphere from inside out.

What is Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?

500

Do land or water surfaces heat up quicker?

What is land surfaces

500

Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen and excess water through a process called photosynthesis. Which systems are interacting here.

What is biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere?

500

What happens if we take away the stratosphere layer of the atmosphere. 

It could be any of these possible answers

What is earths temperatures wouldnt be regulated

What is we'd have no nitrogen, oxygen, or any other gases

What is we'd all die from radiation exposure