Models of the Earth Test

What is your first name?

What is your last name?

Which of the Earth's spheres contains all living things including plants and animals?

• Geosphere
• Biosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Atmosphere

Which of the Earth's spheres contains all nonliving materials including rocks, minerals, soil, mountains, volcanos, lava and magma?

• Geosphere
• Biosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Atmosphere

Which of the Earth's spheres contains all the liquid, solid and gaseous water on Earth, including oceans, lakes, rivers, groundwater, glaciers and precipitation?

• Geosphere
• Biosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Atmosphere

Which of the Earth's spheres contains all the gasses surrounding our planet that allow us to breathe including oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and argon gasses?

• Geosphere
• Biosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Atmosphere

What environmental phenomenon happens when cold air moves over warmer lake water, taking up moisture that later falls as snow?

• Acid Rain
• Rising Ocean Temperatures
• Lake Effect Snow
• Deforestation

What environmental phenomenon happens when emissions of the gasses sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide react with water molecules in the air?

• Acid Rain
• Rising Ocean Temperatures
• Lake Effect Snow
• Deforestation

What environmental phenomenon occurs when trees and plants are removed from a forest and the forest is converted to a non-forest use?

• Acid Rain
• Rising Ocean Temperatures
• Lake Effect Snow
• Deforestation

What is one negative impact of rising ocean temperatures?

• Humans can drink warmer salt water
• Marine mammals could face extinction
• More people take beach vacations
• Hurricanes occur less often