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Unit 2: The [cosphere Activity # 1 CGF3MTopic #1 - The [cosphere: Layers Within LayersInstruction SheetThe [cosphere: The Place Where You Live -23. Classify each of the following events or descriptions into either the ecosphere, biosphere, lithosphere. atmosphere. orhydrosphere. Record your answers in the Numbered Descriptions box on the work sheet.I 80°. nitrogen and 20% oxygen? Which sphere am I?2 The metal in the desk where you are sitting çl hope it has some metal in it!) comes from this sphere.3 I include all of the other spheres in whole or in part.4 Ever notice how black your fingers get when you handle a lot of newspapers.This is because the inks are madeof vegetal materials that come from this sphere.5 You are a part of this sphere.6 Drive a car? The gasoline that makes it run comes from this sphere.7 This sphere covers 70% of the earth’s surface.8 Sedimentary igneous, or metamorphic.They combine to make up this sphere.9 Due to global warming, the level of this sphere is rising slowly, even as you complete this activity!10 Earthquake in the news. Rumblings in this sphere.11 Twisters drop down to earth from this sphere.12 The Gulf Stream is part of this sphere.13 Twisters pick up soil and rocks from this sphere.14 The stratosphere,troposphere, mesosphere and exosphere are subdivisions of this sphere.15 Ever been told to”jump in the lake”? If you did,you would enter this sphere.16 Did you just take a breath? What sphere contributed the air that filled your lungs?17 This layer is not quite the sum of all its parts.18 Hurricanes are born over this sphere.19 The paper you are writing on comes from this sphere.20 The asthenosphere is part of this sphere.21 Need a drink of water? If you do,you are swallowing part of this sphere.22 [)rive a car? The by-products of your drive end up in this sphere.23 We are made up of 90% of a substance from this sphere.24 There are many kinds of plates.There is the Queen’s Plate in horse racing,d inner plates on the table at supper.andplates that make up the surface of the earth and are part of this sphere.25 As the expression says:This sphere grows on you!26 The Greenland Ice Cap is a frozen part of this sphere.27 The name of the outer shell of a pi is also used to describe the sur1act ot this sphere.28 Just have a breakfast cereal or a sandwich for lunch? Food cotirtesv of this sphere!2! Even microscopic bacteria are part of this sphere.31) Popacatepetl volcano erupting again? Just adding to this splwre!6. (% dl eat ‘uie xaIr11)E’ ol how each of he spheres eonlrlt)ul(N to tl 1 possioilitv mid su Ral o life in solile WmJVII