Task 1- Identifying Earth S Spheres

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Investigating the Earth’s Systems

Directions:

You will be exploring the internet links listed for each section about Earth’s Spheres. Links can be found on the homework website or typed into the address bar. Investigate each task in order, do not skip around. Read all text for understanding and answer each question thoughtfully.

Task 1- Identifying Earth’s Spheres

Link#1

Click PLAY to observe a visual model of Earth’s Spheres. Write each sphere on the numbers below. Next, use the text as a guide to help you write a description of each sphere in your own words. Do NOT copy text from the website!

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Use the slide bar located at the bottom of the video to move the animation forward and back. In your own words below answer the following question:

Why do you think each sphere moves out of Earth and then moves back inside of Earth?

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Task 2 – Two Spheres Made out of One

Link #2
Read the informational text to UNDERSTAND and LEARN more about the Hydrosphere.

1.) What are the seven parts that make up the Hydrosphere?

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2.) What does the Hydrosphere interact with? ______

3.) List the three forms that water is found within the Atmosphere below.

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4.) What is the Cryosphere?

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5.) Why is it important?

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Now click PLAY to take a tour of the Cryosphere. Answer the following questions based on information from the video segment. Pause if needed.

6.) What happens to the mountains of ice once it cracks or crumbles? ______

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7.) Are glaciers only found in Antarctica? ______

If no, where are others located? ______

8.) How much does melting snow contribute to the water resources in the American West?

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9.) What is permafrost? ______

10.) After viewing the graph, how do you think the fast melting ice will impact other spheres?

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Task 3-Interactions between Earth’s Spheres

Link #3

Read the text for understanding on all steps located at the bottom of site. Follow the directions within the website.

Click Step 2

1.) Do you think clouds should be classified as part of the atmosphere or hydrosphere?

Explain your reasoning.

Sphere:______

Why______

Click Step 3

Read about the surface of the geosphere.

Look at the picture and explain one interaction between a sphere and human (biosphere) activity.

Sphere:______

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Click Step 4