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Describing Earth's Spheres
Name of Sphere
hydrosphere
geosphere
Description
Important Facts
contains all of Earth's liquid water
including water in the atmosphere, 70% of the Earth's surface is
underground, and on the surface
hydrosphere
Earth's entire solid body of rocks,
soil, sediment, and geologic
processes.
the largest of Earth's
spheres
Who studies it and how
Interactions with Other Spheres
farmers, fishermen, and engineers
are the world's experts in the
hydrosphere.
atmosphere- liquid water evaporates
into gases then condenses into water
again.
geologists and geophysicists work in
terrestrial and marine environments
atmosphere and hydrosphere- water
and wind can carve away and break
down rock in a process called
weathering
Name of Sphere
atmosphere
biosphere
cryosphere
Description
a layer of gases surrounding
Earth
Important Facts
Interactions with Other Spheres
meteorologists (study and predict
the current weather) and
bio- all living things use gases to
1/5 of the atmosphere is colimatologists (study climate perform biological processes. GeoOxygen
change over time)
atomsphere weathers down rocks.
Aristotle was a biologist
all of Earth's organisms/ living
who classified living
things
things into a "ladder"
all of Earth's frozen water
Who studies it and how
Thickest ice is found in
Antartica
Biologists work in jungles,
deserts, and seas to study
organisms and their habits.
atmosphere- plants release gases
into atmosphere. geosphereanimals use rocks as shelter/ plants
grow roots into ground.
glaciologists study glaciers intensely
and climatologists drill ice cores to hydrosphere-ice melts and increases the
study the past climate
water levels of oceans.