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FlashCards por Zara Lagrimas, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Zara Lagrimas
mais de 6 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| 4 systems of the Earth | - air (atmosphere) - water (hydrosphere) - land (lithosphere) - life (biosphere) |
| Any size group of interacting parts That form a complex whole | System |
| System that is self contained (e.g., an automobile cooling system) | Closed system |
| System that allows both energy and matter to flow in and out of the system (e.g., a river system) | Open system |
| Earth is a _______ body with many separate but highly interacting parts or spheres. | Dynamic |
| Earth as a system Is composed of numerous parts called? | Subsystems |
| What are the two sources of Earth’s energy? | - Sun - drives external processes such as weather, ocean circulation and erosional processes - Earth’s Interior - drives internal processes including volcanoes, earthquakes and mountain buil |
| TRUE or FALSE Humans are part of the Earth system | TRUE |
| A group of parts that function together | System |
| OPEN SYSTEM or CLOSED SYSTEM Parts can be either lost from or added to the system | OPEN SYSTEM |
| OPEN SYSTEM or CLOSED SYSTEM all parts exist in precise amounts, and nothing can be lost or added | CLOSED SYSTEM |
| all systems require an _____ ______ to drive them | Energy source |
| Is Earth a closed system? | Yes. * All resources exist on Earth in limited amounts. * For life on Earth to continue to function, these resources have to be recycled over and over again. * Energy source: the sun |
| The 4 systems that sustain life are: | • Biosphere (living things) • Hydrosphere (all water on earth’s surface) • Atmosphere (air) • Lithosphere (soil) |
| Give the 5 layers of the Earth’s atmosphere | - Troposphere - Stratosphere - Mesosphere - Thermosphere - Exosphere |
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