Year & Section: BSED ENGLISH 1-1 Instructor: Mr. Jojie Clamosa
MST 2 – PEOPLE AND EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM
UNIT 2 – Earth Subsystems
Assignment #1
Hydrosphere Atmosphere
Total amount of water on Atmosphere stretches from the
surface of the planet up to as far a planet as 10,000 kilometers Water Composed of about 78 percent Form of oceans, lakes nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 0.9 percent argon, and 0.1 percent and rivers other gases Glaciers, ice caps and Water vapor icebergs Neon are some of the other gases that make up the remaining 0.1 Cryosphere percent Water collects in clouds, Troposphere then falls to Earth in the Stratosphere Mesosphere form of rain or snow Thermosphere Water cycle Exosphere
Biosphere Geosphere
Biosphere is made up of the parts
of Associated with solid portions Earth where life exists of the Earth Lithosphere Measured Continental and20 about oceanic crust(12 kilometers and allfrom miles) othertoplayers of the to bottom Earth's Life existsinterior between about 500 meters Rocks, (1,640 sedimentsfeet)and soils, and Ocean’s surface to about six surface landforms kilometers (3.75 miles) above sea A dynamic sphere where the level surface is in constant motion Biosphere has existed for about 3.5Plate Tectonics billion years Earliest T he mantle, which life forms was is prokaryotes 68% of the Earth's mass Humans Animals T he core, the innermost layer; Plants and treesof very dense it is composed elements, such as nickel and iron