Interaction Between Spheres

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 cryosphere

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 volcanoes erupt, dust and ash particles spread through much of the air blocking the sun.  Which two spheres are interacting? 

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

This picture best describes which connection?

• Atmosphere-Biosphere
• Hydrosphere-Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere-Geosphere
• Geosphere-Biosphere

Sometimes fires burn down large areas of forests that are part of the biosphere. Other than the biosphere, which of Earth’s other systems is a forest fire most likely to affect? (SC.6.E.7.4) 

• Geosphere
• Cryosphere
• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere

When dead plants decompose and nitrogen is returned to the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres? (SC.6.E.7.4) 

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

When plants draw nutrients from the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres? (SC.6.E.7.4) 

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

What two spheres are represented by the water and heron?

• biosphere and geosphere

• atmosphere and biosphere

• hydrosphere and biosphere

• atmosphere and hydrosphere

Wind can carry seeds to new places, so more plants can grow.

• Atmosphere and Biosphere

• Hydrosphere and Biosphere

• Atmosphere and Geosphere

• Geosphere and Biosphere