Earth Spheres and Layers Quiz Bank

In this model, the atmosphere and hydrosphere are interacting with what?

• fog
• erosion
• geosphere
• biosphere

Water availability impacts plant growth and animals who depend on plants for food are interactions between the

• Geosphere and Hydrosphere

• Cryosphere and atmosphere

• Biosphere and geosphere

• Hydrosphere and biosphere

This sphere is composed of all the living things 

• Hydrosphere 
• Biosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Geosphere 

Which of the following is found in the earth's Geosphere

• Soil

• Rocks

• Minerals

• Coral

Water evaporating from the surface of a lake moves from the...

• Atmosphere to the geosphere 
• Geosphere to the hydrosphere 
• Hydrosphere to the atmosphere 
• Atmosphere to the hydrosphere 

When dead plants decompose and nitrogen is returned to the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres? 

• The biosphere and atmosphere 
• The atmosphere and geosphere 
• The geosphere and atmosphere 
• The biosphere and geosphere 

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

• Geosphere 
• Hydrosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Biosphere 

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

• The atmosphere and geosphere 
• The atmosphere and hydrosphere 
• The atmosphere and biosphere 
• The atmosphere and atmosphere 

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

• Biosphere and atmosphere 
• Geosphere and atmosphere 
• Hydrosphere and atmosphere 
• Atmosphere and atmosphere 

Heavy cloud cover impacted the temperature of the land by making it cooler. What 2 spheres are interacting during this event?

• Atmosphere and Hydrosphere

• Hydrosphere and Cryosphere

• Atmosphere and Geosphere

• Geosphere and Hydrosphere