Interactions of the Earth's Spheres

This sphere includes the continents, the ocean floor, all the rocks, sand, clay and soil on the Earth's mantle.

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

This sphere is made of all the liquid 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

This sphere is the body of air surrounding our planet.

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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 living things breathe, which of Earth's spheres are interacting?

• geosphere and hydrosphere

• hydrosphere and biosphere

• atmosphere and biosphere

• hydrosphere and atmosphere

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

• biosphere and atmosphere

• atmosphere and geosphere

• geosphere and hydrosphere

• biosphere and geosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What might happen if the earth didn't have an atmosphere?

• Trees in the biosphere couldn't stay on the ground.

• Water in the hydrosphere couldn't evaporate.

• Minerals in the geosphere couldn't grow.

• Organisms in the biosphere could not live.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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 geosphere and hydrosphere

Oceans, rivers, lakes, and the moisture in the air are all part of which sphere?

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4