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Earth's Systems Flashcards

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Abiotic

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Non living factors in the environment

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Biotic

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Living factors in the environment

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Atmosphere

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Envelope of gas that surrounds the earth

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Bio

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Life

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Biosphere

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Where all living things are found, parts of the earth where life exists

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Earth Crust features

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  1. 20-80km thick
  2. Composed of tectonic plates
  3. (valleys, trenches, mountains, volcanoes)
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Earth’s Crust

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the hard outer layer or shell of the planet that contains all known life

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Cryosphere

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A sub-sphere within the hydrosphere that includes all frozen water.

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Greenhouse Gas

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gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation
(CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone)

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Groundwater

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Water that flows or collects beneath Earth’s surface

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Lithosphere

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Solid outer part of the earth that includes the crust and upper mantle

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Mesosphere

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Part of the earth’s atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere, between about 50 and 80 km in altitude. (where meteors are found)

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Salinity

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Salt concentration in water/ measure of dissolved salt in a body of water

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Stratosphere

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Second layer of earth’s atmosphere, above troposphere and below mesosphere (composed of ozone)

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tectonic plate

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Large sections of the earth’s

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Turbidity

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Cloudiness of a fluid/liquid caused by a number of particles suspended in the liquid.

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Thermosphere

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Layer of the atmosphere above the mesosphere (where satellites and space stations are found)

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Troposphere

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Lowest layer of earth’s atmosphere

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Upper mantle

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Layer of rock beneath the crust made up of magma (fluid molten rock)

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water vapors

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Gas form of water
(Most visible as clouds/fog)
The most abudant greenhouse gas

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