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Ch 1 Section 2 (1.2) A View of Earth
Answer each question in complete sentences.
1. What are the three major physical spheres of Earth?
2. What characterizes our environment?
3. What role does the biosphere play on Earth?
4. What makes Earth unique?
5. What is cryosphere?
What does the prefix- (before the word) cryo mean?
6. What does all life depend on?
What determines where many organisms live? Give an example.
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7. What benefits does the atmosphere give earth?
8. What is the geosphere and why is it divided into three main parts?
What are the three main parts of the geosphere and give a description of each layer.
9. What is the biosphere?
Where is it located on Earth? (where can living things be found)
10. What does the book mean when it says that Earth is a “dynamic planet?”
What are the two forces affecting Earth’s surface?
Give examples and explain each force?
11. What is plate tectonics and does it help explain?