FLASHCARDS: Earth's Systems & Interactions

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What is the role of gravity in Earth's atmosphere?

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Gravity holds the atmosphere in place.

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What is the biosphere?

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The sphere where life exists in all forms including plants and animals.

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What is the geosphere?

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The solid part of the Earth. Includes rocks, minerals, landforms, and the Earth's crust, mantle, outer core and inner core.

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What is the hydrosphere?

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The hydrosphere includes all the water on Earth such as oceans, lakes, rivers, and groundwater, and water vapor.

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What is the cryosphere?

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All the frozen parts of Earth's water including snow, glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost, and frozen ground.

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What is the atmosphere?

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The Earth's protective blanket of gases that surrounds the planet. It is mostly made of nitrogen and oxygen.

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Hurricanes are powerful storms that can create damaging winds and heavy rain. They form in the ocean where warm water and air interact. When hurricanes form which two spheres are interacting?

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hydrosphere and atmosphere

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What spheres are interacting?

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hydrosphere and geosphere

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What spheres are interacting?

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geosphere, hydrosphere, atmsosphere

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What spheres are interacting?

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biosphere, geosphere