Hydrosphere Use the image below to complete the diagram on your worksheet

The area where water fills the aquifer is called the saturated zone (or saturation zone). The top of this zone is called the water table.

The water table may be located only a foot below the ground’s surface or it can sit hundreds of feet down.

Hydrosphere iPad Station

What is Groundwater?

Watch the 5 min video and fill in the definitions on your worksheet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNWAerr_xEE

Hydrosphere Water Demonstration

Imagine all of the water on earth.

Salt water accounts for 97.5% of all water on Earth. Fresh water is much less abundant. Ice and permanent snow account for 1.56% Ground water counts for 0.9% Easily accessable drinking water accounts for 0.036%.

Hydrosphere

Look at the visual representation of all sources of water on

Earth. Discuss with your group the importance of fresh water conservation.

Hydrosphere

Definition: The hydrosphere contains all of the solid, liquid, and gaseous water on the planet!

Examples: Come up with your own

examples for each state of water.

Salt water = ~970 mL Ice & permanent snow = ~20.6mL Groundwater = ~9.0 mL Lakes = ~0.08 mL Swamps = ~0.01 mL Rivers = ~0.002 mL (5 drops) (1 drop)

Atmosphere iPad Station

The Structure of our Atmosphere

Use this video and the pictures to draw the major layers of the atmosphere on your worksheet. Include: Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere. For each layer, write one interesting fact and the width of

each layer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaikvaAw2nk

Atmosphere

Atmosphere

Atmosphere

Definition: The atmosphere contains all of the gases that surround Earth.

Examples: Write down the % of each on your sheet

Earths Gas Composition Nitrogen 78% Oxygen 29%

Argon 1% CO2 0.03%

Other: He, Ne, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone – trace amounts

Atmosphere iPad Question

Use your iPad to define atmospheric pressure and how it is measured.

Fill this in on your worksheet.

Geosphere

Definition: The geosphere is all the rocks, minerals & ground found on and in the Earth.

Examples: Mountains, liquid rock in the mantle, ocean floor, all rocks on the surface, sand in the desert.

Geosphere Observe this picture and write down at least 2 parts of the geosphere you

can see on your worksheet. Be specific.

Geosphere iPad Station

Structure of the Earth

Use this video and write down two cool facts you’ve discovered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXiVGEEPQ6c

Geosphere – Layers of the Earth

Geosphere iPad Station

Look up the definitions of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks. Look at the rock sample labeled ‘A’. Which type of rock do you think it is? Answer on your worksheet.

Biosphere

Definition: The biosphere contains all of the Earths living thing.

Example: Come up with four unique

examples (you can use the specimens at the desk)

Biosphere iPad Station

Read through the section called “Origin of the Biosphere” on the National Geographic website. Answer the questions on your worksheet.

http://nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/biosphere/