Unit 6 - Earth Systems

What is Biosphere? 

• All the living things on Earth
• Soils and Rocky parts of Earth
• Sea water of Earth
• Frozen Mountains on Earth

What is Atmosphere? 

• Air around the Earth
• Hot portion of Earth
• Liquid portion of Earth
• Frozen portion of the Earth

What is Hydrosphere?

• Water around the Earth
• Mountains on Earth
• Air around the Earth
• Desert 

When volcanoes erupt, dust and ash particles spread through much of the air blocking the sun.  Which two spheres are interacting? 

• Hydrosphere and atmosphere 
• Lithosphere and atmosphere 
• Biosphere and atmosphere 
• Atmosphere and atmosphere 

When living things breathe, they interact with which of Earth's spheres? 

• Lithosphere 
• Hydrosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Biosphere 

When a plants takes carbon dioxide from the air which two spheres are interacting? 

• Biosphere and atmosphere 
• Lithosphere and atmosphere 
• Hydrosphere and atmosphere 
• Atmosphere and atmosphere 

When carbon dioxide dissolves from the air into the ocean- the interaction is between...

• The atmosphere and lithsphere 
• The atmosphere and hydrosphere 
• The atmosphere and biosphere 
• The atmosphere and atmosphere 

Waves dropping sand on the beach

• Weathering 
• Erosion
• Deposition

Rain washing away soil from a hillside

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

Caves being formed by acid rain dissolving underground limestone

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition