AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The geosphere is also known as the lithosphere. All the natural forms, such as mountains, oceans, glaciers, hills, valley, canyons, sand dunes, plains, plateaus, present on the Earth’s land constitutes the lithosphere. These natural forms are called landforms. The hydrosphere includes Earth’s water.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Lithosphere–contains all of the cold, hard solid land of the planet’s crust (surface), the semi-solid land underneath the crust, and the liquid land near the center of the planet.

Detailed explanation-3: -The geosphere includes the rocks and minerals on Earth – from the molten rock and heavy metals in the deep interior of the planet to the sand on beaches and peaks of mountains. The geosphere also includes the abiotic (non-living) parts of soils and the skeletons of animals that may become fossilized over geologic time.

Detailed explanation-4: -The lithosphere, sometimes called the geosphere, refers to all of the rocks of the earth. It includes the planet’s mantle and crust, the two outermost layers. The boulders of Mount Everest, the sand of Miami Beach and the lava erupting from Hawaii’s Mount Kilauea are all components of the lithosphere.

Detailed explanation-5: -They point out that Earth’s system consists of 4 subsystems – the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere – which all interact with each other.