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Earth's Spheres Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The biosphere includes ALL living things. Which of the following is NOT living?

a)

birds

b)

bacteria

c)

minerals

d)

plants

2.

Which of the following animal lives in the geosphere?

a)

cat

b)

mole

c)

eagle

d)

fish

3.

A squirrel makes its home in which sphere?

a)

biosphere

b)

geosphere

c)

atmosphere

d)

hydrosphere

4.

Which of the following disastersdoes NOT occur as an interaction with the hydrosphere?

a)

earthquake

b)

mudslide

c)

flood

d)

blizzard

5.

A tropical storm or a hurricane occurs as an interaction betweeen atmosphere and the __

a)

geosphere

b)

biosphere

c)

hydrosphere

d)

lithosphere

6.

The greenhouse effect is caused by

a)

people burning fossil fuels

b)

tropical storms

c)

melting ice caps

d)

the moon reflecting the light of the sun

7.

The greenhouse effect can cause (choose two)

a)

more glaciers to form

b)

the burning of fossil fuels

c)

animals and plants to die

d)

temperatures of the atmosphere to increase

8.

The lithosphere includes

a)

plants and animals

b)

the crust

c)

the core

d)

the upper mantle

9.

Windmills help gather energy from the

a)

geosphere

b)

biosphere

c)

atmosphere

d)

hydrosphere

10.

We look at a photograph of the earth, we can see that most of the water in the world is

a)

in rivers

b)

salt water

c)

frozen

d)

underground

11.

What is one way that acid rain effects the geosphere?

a)

it adds nutrients to the soil.

b)

it causes sand dunes to move quicker

c)

it decreases minerals in the soil

d)

it has no effect on the geosphere

12.

The hydrosphere includes

a)

groundwater

b)

rain, snow and other precipitation

c)

water found in rivers and lakes

d)

all of the above

13.

What two spheres interact when a rock is eroded by wind?

a)

atmosphere and geosphere

b)

atmosphere and hydrosphere

c)

geosphere and hydrosphere

d)

hydrosphere and biosphere

14.
This is part of the....
a)
Geosphere
b)
Biosphere
c)
Hydrosphere
d)
Cryosphere
15.
Geo = 
a)
Earth
b)
Sphere
c)
Life
d)
Water
16.
This is part of the....
a)
Geosphere
b)
Atmosphere
c)
Cryosphere
d)
Hydrosphere
17.
This sphere includes the continents, the ocean floor, all the rocks on the surface, and all of the sand in the deserts. 
a)
Hydrosphere 
b)
Biosphere 
c)
Atmosphere 
d)
Geosphere 
18.
Water evaporating from the surface of a lake moves from the...
a)
Atmosphere to the geosphere 
b)
Geosphere to the hydrosphere 
c)
Hydrosphere to the atmosphere 
d)
Atmosphere to the hydrosphere 
19.
When living things breathe, they interact with which of Earth's spheres? 
a)
Geosphere 
b)
Hydrosphere 
c)
Atmosphere 
d)
Biosphere 
20.
When dead plants decompose and nitrogen is returned to the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres? 
a)
The biosphere and atmosphere 
b)
The atmosphere and geosphere 
c)
The geosphere and atmosphere 
d)
The biosphere and geosphere