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What is biosphere?
The layer of Earth containing all living things is called the
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What is the atmosphere?
Layer of gases around Earth is called
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What is by exchanging matter and energy?
How do Earth's systems interact with one another?
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What are the water cycle, rock cycle, carbon cycle, and phosphorus cycle?
Name the four major cycles in the lesson
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What is an area's average weather including temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation?
Define climate
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What are: igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
Name the three types of rocks
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What is the stratosphere?
In this layer of atmosphere there is the highest concentration of Ozone
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What is 75%?
____% of precipitation falls into the ocean and the rest falls on land
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What is transpiration is the process in which water vapor is released in plants leaves and respiration is how the energy is produced within a leaf?
The difference between transpiration and respiration is
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What are carbon dioxide, ozone, nitric oxide, water vapor?
Name 3 different Greenhouse gases
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What are: atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and geosphere?
Name the 5 Earth systems that compose Earth
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What is 1?
There is less than ___% of freshwater easily accessible on Earth's surface
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What is the process that moves large bodies of Earth's materials to higher elevations?
Define uplift
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What is weathering breaks down rock, erosion moves broken down particles, and deposition builds it up in new areas?
The relationship between weathering, erosion and deposition is that
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What is 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit?
How much has NASA reported that temperature has increased by?
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What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
What are the layers in which the atmosphere is divided into?
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What are solid inner core, liquid outer core, mantle, oceanic crust and continental crust?
Name ALL the layers if the geosphere
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What are volcanism, burning fossil fuels, fires and deforestation, decomposition, fossil fuels, cellular respiration... etc?
Name 3 ways carbon is released into the carbon cycle
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What are geosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere?
What 3 systems help move phosphorus in the phosphorus cycle?
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What are 32 million acres?
How many acres of rain forest are chopped down every year?
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What is 79%?
________ % of Earth's freshwater is in the cryosphere
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What are: 1. naturally occurring 2. inorganic 3. solid 4. crystal structure 5. definite chemical composition
What are the 5 characteristics an object needs to be considered a mineral
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What are weather, climate and habitats?
The interaction among systems strongly influence what 3 factors:
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all 5! atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and biosphere
The water cycle involves what Earth Systems:
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Who is James Balog?
Who was the photographer we studied in the documentary Chasing Ice?
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