Earth's Spheres Vocabulary

Everything on Earth can be placed into one of four major subsystems: land, water, living things, and air.

• Biosphere

• Erosion

• Earth's Sphere

• Geosphere

All the gasses surrounding the earth.

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

All the oceans, rivers, lakes, and water on Earth

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Full Moon

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

To reuse something that would have otherwise been thrown out or to turn it into something usable again instead of sending it to a landfill.

• waste

• recycling

• renewable energy

• non-renewable energy

The main source of energy today (gasoline, coal, and natural gas).

• non-renewable energy

• fossil fuel

• ethanol

• generator

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

After pieces of the earth are broken down through weathering, those pieces are moved through...

• Geosphere

• Erosion

• Crescent Moon

• Earth's Orbit

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

sources of energy that can be more easily replenished.

• ethanol

• non-renewable energy

• erosion

• renewable energy

All the rock, soil, and sediments that makeup Earth’s land

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

• Atmosphere

• Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

All the living things on Earth.

• Biosphere

• Geopshere

• Star

• Atmosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

sources of energy that cannot be easily replenished.

• non-renewable energy

• ethanol

• renewable energy

• solar power