Recognizing the Earth's Subsystem

What are the four subsystems?

This is the portion of the Earth system that includes the Earth’s interior, rocks and minerals, landforms and the processes that shape the Earth’s surface.

What is the lithosphere also referred to as?

This subsystem is where we exactly live in.

This is the liquid water component of the Earth.

What are examples of Lithosphere?

How many percent does water cover the surface of the Earth?

This subsystem is important because it contains water.

What is Hydrosphere’s role?

This is a layer of gases surrounding a planet of sufficient mass that is held in place by the gravity of the Earth.

What is the Atmosphere’s role?

This is the biological component of Earth systems.

This subsystem includes all living organisms on earth, together with the dead organic matter produced by them.

What are examples of Hydrosphere?

What are examples of Biosphere?

This is the solid part of the planet’s continental crust, the portion of the earth on which human being live.

This is the largest and oldest of the spheres.

This sphere consisted largely of carbon dioxide from Earth’s interior as well as gases brought to Earth by comets.

Elemental hydrogen and helium escaped the planet, and much of the carbon was deposited in what we became known as..?

The largest but far from the only component of Earth

Consists of all the planet’s water except for water vapor in the atmosphere.

This is necessary to life.

This consists of all living organisms as well as any formerly living material that has not yet decomposed.