Lesson 1 Vocab Review

Which layer of the earth is described as the relatively thin layer of gases that forms earth’s outermost layer?

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

Which part of the earth includes the crust, mantle, and core?

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

• Cryosphere

• Atmosphere

What is the portion of the earth that consists of water in any of its forms, including oceans, glaciers, rivers, lakes, groundwater, and water vapor?

• Cryosphere

• Biosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

Which part of the hydrosphere is frozen, including all the ice and snow on land, plus sea and lake ice?

• Cryosphere

• Geosphere

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

Which parts of the earth contain living organisms?

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Cryosphere

• Biosphere

What is the ability to do work or cause change called?

• Geography

• Latitude

• Energy

• Cardinal Direction

What is the study of the human and nonhuman features of earth called?

• Energy

• Geography

• Latitude

• Cardinal Direction

Which of the following are the cardinal directions?

• North, South, East, and West

• North, South, East, and Central

• North, South, East, and Up

• North, South, East, and Down

What is the position north or south of the Equator measured in degrees called?

• Energy

• Geography

• Latitude

• Cardinal Direction

What is the term for the position in degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian?

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Scale

• Equator