Study Guide for Quiz- Earth's Spheres

All of Earth's water which circulates among oceans, continents, glaciers, and the atmosphere

• Geosphere

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The zone of Earth comprising of all forms of life in the sea, on land, and in ther air

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

The mostly solid, rocky part of the Earth consisting of the entire planet from the center of the core to the outermost crust

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Subsurface water contained in the soil and bedrock of the upper few kilometers of the geosphere, about .63% of all water in the hydrosphere

• Lithosphere

• Cryosphere

• Groundwater

• Ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

The 100 Kilometer thick, cool, rigid outer part of the Earth, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle and is broken into pieces called plates

• Asthenosphere

• Lithosphere

• Cryosphere

• Mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The part of Earth's hydrosphere that contains glaciers, ice caps, permanent snow, and all Earth's frozen water

• Atmosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Cryosphere

• Ground water

7 major and 8 smaller segments of the lithosphere that float on relatively hot, plastic mantle rock beneath and move horizontally with respect to each other

• Tectonic plates

• Ceramic plates

• Biosphere

• Mantle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The gaseous layer above Earth's surface, mostly nitrogen and oxygen, with smaller amounts of argo, carbon dioxide, and other gases

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The rocky layer of Earth between the core and the crust that varies in temperature and pressure, creating some regions that are hard and firm and others that are soft and plastic.

• Mantle

• Lithosphere

• Cryosphere

• Geosphere

True or False

Oceans cover 71% of the Earth and contain 97.5% of its water.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4