Earth Systems Earth Systems Interactions among Earth Systems Interactions among Earth Systems Climate Change
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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
100
What is by exchanging matter and energy?
How do Earth's systems interact with one another?
100
What are the water cycle, rock cycle, carbon cycle, and phosphorus cycle?
Name the four major cycles in the lesson
100
What is an area's average weather including temperature, humidity, wind, and precipitation?
Define climate
200
What are: igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary
Name the three types of rocks
200
What is the stratosphere?
In this layer of atmosphere there is the highest concentration of Ozone
200
What is 75%?
____% of precipitation falls into the ocean and the rest falls on land
200
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
300
What are: atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and geosphere?
Name the 5 Earth systems that compose Earth
300
What is 1?
There is less than ___% of freshwater easily accessible on Earth's surface
300
What is the process that moves large bodies of Earth's materials to higher elevations?
Define uplift
300
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
300
What is 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit?
How much has NASA reported that temperature has increased by?
400
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere?
What are the layers in which the atmosphere is divided into?
400
What are solid inner core, liquid outer core, mantle, oceanic crust and continental crust?
Name ALL the layers if the geosphere
400
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
400
What are geosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere?
What 3 systems help move phosphorus in the phosphorus cycle?
400
What are 32 million acres?
How many acres of rain forest are chopped down every year?
500
What is 79%?
________ % of Earth's freshwater is in the cryosphere
500
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
500
What are weather, climate and habitats?
The interaction among systems strongly influence what 3 factors:
500
all 5! atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, and biosphere
The water cycle involves what Earth Systems:
500
Who is James Balog?
Who was the photographer we studied in the documentary Chasing Ice?






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