Earth's Systems and Plate Tectonics

This sphere includes the continents, the ocean floor, all the rocks on the surface, and all of the sand in the deserts.

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Composed of all the water on or near the earth

• Hydrosphere 
• Biosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Geosphere 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

This sphere is composed of all the living things 

• Hydrosphere 
• Biosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Geosphere 

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 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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 

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How much of the atmosphere is oxygen gas?

• 78%
• 21%
• 1%
• 98%

Matter and Energy move between the Earth's spheres

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The primary source of energy for the Earth system is heat from the inner core.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The primary source of energy for the Earth system is the Sun.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What spheres are interacting when a volcano erupts and releases hot gases into the air?

• biosphere & atmosphere

• hydrosphere & biosphere

• geosphere & atmosphere

• geosphere & biosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2