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This is the outer most Earth system which consists of a mixture of gases and particles of matter.
What is the atmosphere?
This Earth system contains all of Earth’s water.
What is hydrosphere?
This is the largest of the Earth systems.
What is the geosphere?
This Earth system contains all of Earth’s living things.
What is the biosphere?
A cliff is part of this Earth system.
What is the geosphere?
Water exists in three states. Name them.
What are ice, water and water vapor?
This is a series of processes that continuously move carbon among Earth systems.
What is the carbon cycle?
This is the series of processes that move phosphorus among three Earth systems
What is the phosphorus cycle?
These are ways that carbon can enter the atmosphere.
What are volcanism, cellular respiration, burning fossil fuels, forest fires and decomposition?
These are the ways that carbon can leave the atmosphere.
What are absorption by water, photosynthesis, and stored in fossil fuels?
These are the three main layers of the Earth.
What are the crust, mantle, and core?
This is made up of the igneous rocks basalt and gabbro.
What is oceanic crust?
This is the densest layer of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
This is the least dense layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
These are the two parts of the mantle and a description of each.
What is the lithosphere is the part of the mantle that contains the crust and uppermost mantle that is brittle and the asthenosphere is the weak, partially melted layer of the mantle?
This type of rock forms when molten rock cools and hardens.
What is an igneous rock?
This type of rock forms when sediment is eroded by water, wind, ice, or gravity and deposited in layers.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is the way a mineral’s surface reflects light.
What is luster?
This is the tendency of a mineral to break along irregular surfaces.
What is fracture?
This type of rock forms when an existing rock is subjected to extreme pressure and temperatures.
What is a metamorphic rock?
Dead and decaying animals can provide nutrients for this.
What is soil?
This is the hardest mineral, a 10 on the Mohs scale.
What is a diamond?
This layer of the geosphere is NOT solid.
What is the outer core?
The metal needle in a compass aligns with this.
What is Earth’s magnetic field?
The ozone layer protects living things from harmful UV radiation from the Sun, it is found in this Earth System.
What is the atmosphere?