The Earth's 4 Spheres

Question 1

What are the four spheres of the earth?

Answer 1

Land, Water, Living Things, and Air

Question 2

What’s the specific term for Land?

Answer 2

Geosphere or Lithosphere

Question 3

What’s the specific term for Water?

Answer 3

Hydrosphere

Question 4

What’s the specific term for Living Things?

Answer 4

Biosphere

Question 5

What’s the specific term for Air?

Answer 5

Atmosphere

Question 6

What is the most prominent feature of hydrosphere?

Answer 6

The Global Ocean

Question 7

What is the living component of the Earth?

Answer 7

Biosphere

Question 8

What are the two components of the atmosphere?

Answer 8

The Major Components and The Variable Components

Question 9

What components that includes the gaseous compound nitrogen and oxygen. It provides the air that people breathe and can trap infrared radiation to keep the Earth warm?

Answer 9

The Major Components

Question 10

What Components that includes water vapor and aerosols which is experienced on Earth through interaction of the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and the geosphere?

Answer 10

The Variable Components

Question 11

It is needed for cloud formation and for trapping the heat of the Earth?

Answer 11

Water Vapor

Question 12

What serves as condensation nuclei for water vapor and can absorb, reflect, and scatter incoming solar radiation?

Answer 12

Aerosols

Question 13

What is another variable component of the atmosphere that protects Earth from harmful ultraviolation of the Sun?

Answer 13

Ozone

Question 14

What are the four different layers of the Atmosphere?

Answer 14

4 - Troposphere
3 - Stratosphere
2 - Mesosphere
1 - Thermosphere

Question 15

What is the solid component of the Earth?

Answer 15

Geosphere/Lithosphere

Question 16

What are the different layers of the Earth?

Answer 16

Crust, Mantle (upper & lower), Core (outer & inner)

Question 17

It is the outmost layer of the Earth. It is relatively thin that it occupies just about 1% of the earth’s volume?

Answer 17

Crust

Question 18

It compromises 82% of the Earth’s volume and is divided into upper and lower ______?

Answer 18

Mantle

Question 19

It is made of solid rocks and together with the crust as the “Lithosphere”.

Answer 19

Upper Mantle

Question 20

It is the weaker region of semi-solid of plastics as “Asthenosphere”.

Answer 20

Lower Mantle

Question 21

It is made up of iron-nickel alloy making it very dense and it is into inner/outer _____?

Answer 21

Core

Question 22

It is responsible for Earth’s magnetic field that protects from the harmful solar winds.

Answer 22

Outer Core

Question 23

What pressure that exists in the center of the planet.

Answer 23

Inner Core