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Term | Definition |
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Earth system | All of the nonliving things, living things, and rocesses tht make up the planet earth,including the solid earth, the hydrosphere , the atmosphere,and the biosphere. |
Atmosphere | A mixture of gasses that surrounds a planet,moon,or other celestial body |
Geosphere | The mostly solid, rocky part of earth;extends from the center of the core to the surface of the crust. |
Hydrosphere | The portion of earth that is water |
Cryosphere | One of earth's spheres where water is in solid form, including snow cover,floating ice,glaicers,ice caps,ice sheets,and frozen ground permafrost. |
Biosphere | The part of earth where life exists ;includes all of the living organisims on earth. |
Lithosphere | the solid ,outer layer of earth that consists of the crust rigidupper part of the mantle. |