1. Warm Up #5
What are some systems that you can think of within Earth?

2. Lesson 1: Earth Systems and Interactions
Ch. 1 The Earth Systems
Lesson 1: Earth Systems and Interactions

3. Essential Questions How do Earth systems interact in the carbon cycle?
How do Earth systems interact in the phosphorus cycle?

4. How do Earth systems interact? Activity
Examine the pictures given with your group.
Discuss how they interact with each other.

5. Earth Systems Atmosphere – mixture of gases and particles of matter
Forms layers around the other Earth systems
Mainly nitrogen and oxygen
Move freely, helping transport matter and energy among
Earth systems
Hydrosphere – all Earth’s water
Below atmosphere
Continuously moves from place to place

6. Earth Systems Geosphere – largest system, solid Earth
Includes thin layer of soil and rocks on Earth’s surface
and underlying layers of Earth
Materials move more slowly
Why do materials move slowly within the
geosphere?
Biosphere – all living things on Earth

7. Water Cycle A continuous movement of water on, above,
and below Earth’s surface.
BrainPOP – Water Cycle

8. Rock Cycle A series of processes that change rocks from one form to
another
the amount of material cycling through each system
remains constant, but it might change state or form
Looking at your picture:
How do sedimentary rocks form?
Where do metamorphic rocks form?

9. Warm Up #6
How do different systems interact with each other?

10. Carbon Cycle The series of processes that continuously move
carbon among Earth systems
Looking at your picture:
Give an example of how the atmosphere and the geosphere interact in the carbon cycle?
How would the carbon cycle be affected if the rate of photosynthesis increased?
Which processes add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? Which processes remove it?

11. Carbon Cycle
The series of processes that continuously move carbon among Earth systems
Greenhouse gases – gases in the atmosphere that absorb and reradiate thermal energy from the Sun.
Why are these gases important?

12. Phosphorus Cycle
The series of processes that move phosphorus among Earth systems
How can a lack of phosphorus affect organisms?
Looking at your picture:
how does the water cycle affect the phosphorus cycle?
What happens to phosphate that is dissolved in water?
How do living things affect the phosphorus cycle?