Topic 1 - Intro to Earth's Systems Review

This part of the Earth System includes the crust, mantle, and core.

• Geosphere
• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Biosphere

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This part of the Earth System includes the gases that surround the earth.

• Geosphere
• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Biosphere

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This part of the Earth System includes all living things, including plants and animals.

• Geosphere
• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Biosphere

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This part of the Earth System includes the planet's water, including the oceans, lakes, rivers, ground water, ice, and vapor.

• Geosphere
• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Biosphere

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This picture best describes which connection?

• Atmosphere-Biosphere
• Atmosphere-Biosphere
• Hydrosphere-Geosphere
• Geosphere-Biosphere

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An example of a connection between HYDROsphere and GEOsphere is:

• Waves eroding rocks on beach
• Fish swimming in water
• Water evaporating to make clouds
• Boats transporting goods

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Nature’s change agents have been both _____________and _____________by building up and carving Earth’s surface for billions of years, creating slow and rapid changes to landforms that resulted in an amazing diversity of landscapes.

• positive and negative

• great and small

• constructive and destructive

• natural and manmade

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River deltas, beaches, dunes, sandbars, floodplains, Glacial moraines, and Alluvial fans are all examples of soil deposition and

• Constructive processes.

• Destructive processes.

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Below are examples of __________ processes: 1. Erosion 2. Earthquakes 3. Volcanoes 4. Organism impact

• destructive

• constructive

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Which definition best defines a continental shelf?

• The sharp slope at the end of a continent.
• An underwater plain.
• The ocean floor along the coast covered by shallow water and gradually slopes down.
• Mountains completely underneath the ocean.