Earths Systems
Layers of the Atmosphere
Other
Interactions among earths systems
Vocabulary
100
What percentage of water on Earth is saltwater?
96%-98%
100
Which 3 gases make up most of earth's atmosphere?
What is oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide?
100
inner most layer of the earth
What is inner core?
100
Two systems that interact for water cycle
What is hydrosphere and atmosphere?
100
All solid land on Earth's surface and down to the core?
What is geosphere?
200
Insulates the planet to keep it warm.
What is atmosphere?
200
What is the name of the layer that protects Earth from harmful radiation?
What is the stratosphere or ozone layer?
200
Plates move in this layer of the earth
What is mantle?
200
Three systems that interact during the growth of a tree
What is hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere?
200
The outermost layer of the atmosphere
What is exosphere?
300
How does water move between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere?
What is the water cycle?
300
As altitude increases air pressure (increases or decreases)
Decreases
300
Which unit of measurement is used to describe the volume of water in a pond?
Feet
300
Which systems are interacting here?
What is geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?
300
Water that falls from the air to the Earth's surface.
Precipitation
400
The frozen water on earth contains what that is essential to human life?
What is fresh water?
400
Weather occurs here. I regulate earths temperatures and I am the first layer of the atmosphere. Who am I?
What is Troposphere?
400
What resources contain most of the Earth's freshwater?
Glaciers or Ice Caps
400
Evaporation is an example of which two systems interacting.
Hydrosphere and Atmosphere
400
The place at which land masses meet the ocean.
Coastline
500
The process by which plants use sunlight to make food from carbon dioxide and water.
What is photosynthesis?
500
Layers of the atmosphere from inside out.
What is Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
500
The Pacific Ring of Fire is home to many of the Earth's _______?
Volcanoes
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 we'd be hit by an asteroid
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