Understanding Earth's Spheres and Processes

What is the term for rain that contains acid from pollution?

• Freshwater

• Acid Rain

• Saltwater

• Groundwater

Match the following terms with their correct descriptions.

• The layer of gases surrounding the planet.

• Geosphere

• All the waters on the Earth's surface.

• Atmosphere

• The solid part of the Earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle.

• Biosphere

• The global sum of all ecosystems.

• Hydrosphere

What is the part of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms can exist called?

• Biosphere

• Geosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Atmosphere

What is the term for the act or process of cutting down the trees of a forest?

• Erosion

• Deforestation

• Invasive Species

• Trophic Cascade

What is the term for the wearing away of the earth's surface by wind or water?

• Erosion

• Glacier

• Rain Shadow

• Snow Belt

What do we call water that is not salty?

• Saltwater

• Freshwater

• Groundwater

• Glacier

The solid earth distinguished from the atmosphere and hydrosphere is called (a)   ?

• Biosphere
• Geosphere
• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere

Match the following terms with their correct definitions.

• A series of changes in population sizes of organisms at different trophic levels in a food chain, occurring when predators in a food web suppress the abundance or alter the behavior of their prey.

• Trophic Cascade

• A large mass of ice formed in cold regions from compacted snow.

• Snow Belt

• A region that receives heavy snowfall.

• Rain Shadow

• An area having reduced rainfall because it is sheltered from prevailing rain-bearing winds by a range of hills.

• Glacier

What is the term for the water beneath the earth's surface that supplies springs and wells?

• Freshwater

• Groundwater

• Saltwater

• Hydrosphere

What is the term for changes to the Earth’s spheres caused directly or indirectly by humans?

• Human Impact

• Invasive Species

• Scientific Phenomenon

• Trophic Cascade