6th Grade 10.1 The Earth System

A hot, mobile layer of partially molten rock below the lithosphere and within Earth's upper mantle.

• Lithosphere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

• Asthenosphere

A layer of gases that surrounds a planet.

• Atmosphere

• Cryosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Asthenosphere

All of Earth's living things and the regions occupied by those living things.

• Biosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

The model describing the events and processes by which carbon atoms move through the Earth system.

• Rock Cycle

• Carbon Cycle

• Water Cycle

The outer layer of Earth that lies between the mantle and the surface and makes up the continents and the ocean floor.

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Crust

• Outer Core

All of Earth's frozen water, including its sea ice, glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost, and permanent snow cover.

• Cryosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

• Lithosphere

The ability to cause change in matter.

• Power

• Work

• System

• Energy

The part of Earth made up of rock and the minerals that form rock.

• Geosphere

• Biosphere

• Lithosphere

• Asthenosphere

All of Earth's water, including its oceans, surface bodies of freshwater, and groundwater, as well as clouds and water vapor in the atmosphere.

• Cryosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

• Geosphere

The solid, hottest, densest, and innermost layer of Earth, made up mostly of iron and some nickel.

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

• Mantle

• Crust