Earth's Spheres
Interactions Between Earth's Spheres
Earth's Layers
Types of Rocks
Rock Cycle
100
Liquid water, ice, and water vapor are components of the...
Hydrosphere
100
Give an example of the biosphere interacting with the atmosphere.
Animals breathing, plants making oxygen, etc.
100
Outermost layer, thinnest, coolest, lowest pressure, made of basalt and granite.
Crust
100
Forms from magma that hardened beneath Earth’s surface
Intrusive
100
How can metamorphic rock change into igneous?
High heat, melting
200
The gases that make up the layer of air that surrounds Earth are part of the...
Atmosphere
200
Give an example of the biosphere interacting with the biosphere.
Animals eating plants or other animals, climbing a tree, bees pollinating a flower, etc.
200
Solid iron and nickel, highest density, 5,200oC.
Inner Core
200
When other rock has been weathered and eroded to form sediment that is then compacted and cemented together.
Sedimentary rock
200
How can metamorphic turn into sedimentary?
Weathering, compaction and cemenation.
300
The biosphere includes…
All living things.
300
Give an example of the hydrosphere interacting with the geosphere.
Weathering.
300
Liquid layer, 4,500-5,500oC, made up of iron and nickel.
Outer Core
300
Forms from lava that erupts on Earth’s surface from a volcano
Extrusive
300
How can sedimentary rock turn into sedimentary?
Weathering, compaction and cementation
400
The atmosphere is important to living things because…
it helps regulate the planet’s temperature and protects living things from radiation.
400
Give an example of the biosphere interacting with the hydrsphere.
Animals swimming, drinking water, etc.
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400
Thickest layer, 1,000-3,700oC, rock layer made up of iron and magnesium.
Mantle
400
When rock material undergoes great heat or pressure.
Metamorphic rock
400
How can sedimentary rock change into metamorphic rock?
Heat and pressure
500
The components of the geosphere include…
rocks, metals, and minerals that make up the planet.
500
Give an example of the hydrosphere interacting with the atmosphere.
Weather, water cycle, etc.
500
Hot, fluid (plastic) part or the upper mantle.
Asthenosphere
500
When magma or lava cools and hardens.
Igneous rock
500
How can igneous rock turn into sedimentary?
Weathering, compaction and cementation.