Earth's Spheres Question Preview (ID: 44356)


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What is the Earth System?
a) The newest game console from Sony
b) The spheres working together to support life on earth.
c) When rocks are weathered by wind or rain.
d) The sphere that refers to rocks, soil, and land.

Which sphere contains gases (mostly nitrogen and oxygen) and protects Earth from harmful radiation?
a) hydrosphere
b) geosphere
c) atmosphere
d) biosphere

Which sphere includes rain, rivers, lakes, oceans, and groundwater?
a) hydrosphere
b) geosphere
c) atmosphere
d) cryosphere

Which sphere is made up of the core, the mantle, and the crust?
a) atmosphere
b) cryosphere
c) geosphere
d) hydrosphere

Which sphere includes seaweed, fish, sharks, and sunflowers?
a) cryosphere
b) hydrosphere
c) atmosphere
d) biosphere

Which sphere includes mountains, volcanoes, and caves?
a) atmosphere
b) biosphere
c) geosphere
d) hydrosphere

Which sphere includes glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost?
a) hydrosphere
b) cryosphere
c) biosphere
d) geosphere

Which two spheres interact when a dog drinks from a lake?
a) cryosphere and hydrosphere
b) atmosphere and hydrosphere
c) biosphere and cryosphere
d) biosphere and hydrosphere

What spheres are interacting when a volcano spreads ash into the air?
a) hydrosphere and atmosphere
b) geosphere and atmosphere
c) hydrosphere and geosphere
d) biosphere and cryosphere

What two spheres are interacting when ocean currents remove sand from a beach?
a) atmosphere and geosphere
b) hydrosphere and atmosphere
c) hydrosphere and geosphere
d) atmosphere and biosphere

What two spheres are interacting when warm ocean currents melt an iceberg?
a) atmosphere and cryosphere
b) cryosphere and biosphere
c) hydrosphere and biosphere
d) hydrosphere and cryosphere

What do clouds and glaciers do?
a) absorb radiation
b) reflect radiation
c) make the planet warmer
d) add to the rock cycle

Land and oceans do what?
a) reflect radiation from the sun
b) absorb radiation from the sun
c) change radiation into oxygen
d) change sunlight into energy

What moves through the spheres?
a) energy
b) matter
c) both matter and energy
d) neither matter nor energy

Where is most of Earth's liquid water?
a) Glaciers
b) Rivers
c) Pipes
d) Oceans

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