Earth's Systems Interactions - Vocabulary

A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment

• Biosphere

• Interactions

• Organisms

• Ecosystem

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.3

Actions by one thing that have an effect on a different or separate thing

• Interactions

• Systems

• Biosphere

• Sediment

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.3

Sand or small pieces of rock broken down by weathering and deposited on land or at the bottom of a body of water

• Molten Rock

• sediment

• Mountains

• Sedimentary rocks

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.L.5.4A

The portion of Earth’s system that includes

Earth's interior, rocks and minerals, landforms,

and the processes that shape Earth's surface

• Molten lave

• Geosphere

• Landform

• Interactions

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.3

The layer of gas surrounding planet Earth, held in place by gravity and composed of a limited number of elements—primarily nitrogen and oxygen

• Geophere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

• Bipsphere

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.L.5.4A

The sum of all living matter, made of a limited

number of elements, including oxygen, carbon,

hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus

• Biosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.3

All the water in the air, oceans, rivers, lakes,

ice caps, soil, rocks, and organisms of Earth

• atmosphere

• hydrosphere

• biosphere

• geosphere

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

A living thing

• interaction

• biosphere

• organism

• system

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

A feature on the surface of Earth, such as a mountain, hill, dune, ocean, or river

• Biosphere

• Ecosystem

• Landform

• Geosphere

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.L.5.6

Actions by one thing that have an effect on a different or separate thing

• Molten rock

• Volcano

• Mountain

• Sand dune

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.3