EESIntroduction to Earth Science

What is the atmosphere?

• The thin blanket of air that surrounds Earth
• Air
• Pudding
• The Earth's surface

What is the Lithosphere?

• Structure
• Surface
• Solid Earth (Earth's Surface)
• Tree

What is the biosphere?

• Life
• All life on Earth
• Money
• Living Creatures

How does the biosphere interact with the atmosphere?

• Trees releasing carbon dioxide
• Fish swimming in the ocean
• People hiking up a mountain
• Rain weathering a rock

How does the lithosphere interact with the hydrosphere?

• Rain weathering and eroding a rock
• People enjoy a nice evening hiking
• A bird flying through the sky
• A massive landslide damages hundreds of homes 

How does the atmosphere interact with the hydrosphere?

• Rain falling from a cloud and running off eventually into a creek
• Birds flying in the sky
• Rain falling on the other side of the mountain
• Thunder can be heard for miles

Latitude is North and South and Longitude is ________ and ____________.

• East and West
• North and West
• East and South
• South and North

A person who studies the oceans and marine life would be an 

• oceanographer
• ecologist
• meteorologist 
• astronomer

What is Earth science?

• the scientific study of chemical mixtures
• the scientific study of Earth and the universe around it
• the scientific study of animal behavior
• the scientific study of life on Earth

What area of Earth science is likely to involve the study of climate?

• geology
• biology
• astrology
• meteorology