1.1.2 Earth System

What is the geosphere's function?

• controls the distribution of minerals, rocks and soils and generates natural hazards that shape the land and impact humans
• a recycling planet powered by the flow of solar energy to support a network of life.
• sustains various life forms and plays an important role in ecosystems and regulating heat on earth.
• sustains life forms on the surface of the earth, absorbs and interacts with harmful  solar rays.It protects the earth from natural and human-caused space debris.

What is the hydrosphere's function?

• a recycling planet powered by the flow of solar energy to support a network of life.
• sustains various life forms and plays an important role in ecosystems and regulating heat on earth.
• sustains life forms on the surface of the earth, absorbs and interacts with harmful  solar rays.It protects the earth from natural and human-caused space debris.
• controls the distribution of minerals, rocks and soils and generates natural hazards that shape the land and impact humans

What is the atmosphere's function?

• a recycling planet powered by the flow of solar energy to support a network of life.
• sustains various life forms and plays an important role in ecosystems and regulating heat on earth.
• sustains life forms on the surface of the earth, absorbs and interacts with harmful  solar rays.It protects the earth from natural and human-caused space debris.
• controls the distribution of minerals, rocks and soils and generates natural hazards that shape the land and impact humans

The system that contains all living things on Earth.

• Biosphere

• Atmoshpere

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

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A community of organisms and their abiotic environment.

• Environment

• Biosphere

• Ecosystem

• Community

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All the non-living things in an environment

• Biotic

• Biome

• Abiotic

• Biosphere

All living things in an environment

• Biotic

• abiotic

• geographic

• community

Two or more different species interacting and living in an area.

• Biodiversity

• Habitat

• Community

• Microhanitat

A living thing (one thing) that carry out life processes independently.

• organism

• abiotic

• community

• biosphere

A large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities.

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Ecoregion

• Microhabitat