Plants (__________) draw water (___________) and nutrients from the soil (___________) and release water vapor into the atmosphere.

This sphere includes not only the landforms on Earth’s surface (e.g. mountains, volcanoes, sand dunes), but all the matter in the Earth’s interior as well.

A subsystem of the hydrosphere that is made up of all the frozen water on Earth (e.g. glaciers, snow, ice, hail)

This sphere is the only sphere that is composed of living things. 

Which of the following does NOT belong in the atmosphere?

Which of the following does NOT belong in the hydrosphere?

Which of the following is NOT part of the biosphere?

Plants reduce soil erosion by protecting the land.

Strong winds can change the shape of sand dunes by blowing the sand to other places.

When animals decompose, which two spheres are interacting?

Air in the atmosphere is composed of 21% of ...

Review: What is the CORRECT ORDER of levels of organization (from smallest to greatest)?

Which Earth system includes rocks, sand, and mountains?

Buffalo, people, and flowers are part of what Earth System?

This Earth System includes rivers, lakes, glaciers, and clouds.

Which layer is the outermost layer of the atmosphere?

Which type of rock is formed from the solidification of magma or lava?

Water on Earth is either freshwater or saltwater. What is the percent ratio of freshwater to percent saltwater on Earth?

Means that there is no exchange of matter, only heat and/or energy is being exchanged.

Geosphere is the largest layer of the Earth with the depth of ____

Only __ of the Earth's water is fresh.

Is the process by which carbon is transferred among the atmosphere, ocean, soil, and living organisms.

Earth's subsystem that includes all of the air that surrounds Earth.

What are the two main sources of energy for the Earth system?

Earth's subsystem that includes all of Earth's layers, rocks, minerals, and soil.

Florida is part of a landform of the southeast portion of North America that consists of mostly flat landscape not much higher than sea level. This is called a ________.

Which word means the shape of the land?

What is the difference in elevation between the highest and lowest points of an area?

Rain, wind ice and fire that destroy and wear away landmasses are known as what?

Which landform can only be created by constructive forces?

What is the landform that is formed when sediments build up at the mouth of a river?

Topographic maps show elevation, relief, and slope by using what?

What is the contour interval of this topographic map?

Removing fresh water from the ocean results in an increase of the ocean's what?

Which process in the water cycle involves liquid water becoming water vapor?

Which process of the water cycle involves water vapor becoming liquid water?

Where is most of the water on Earth found?

What is the land area that supplies water to a river system?

Where do over half of Americans get their drinking water from?

Wells are used to reach supplies of water found in layers of rock under the ground. What are these layers called?

As you descend farther down into the ocean, the water temperature:

Which of Earth's subsystems contains all living things?

How do the biosphere and the atmosphere interact?

How do the geosphere and the hydrosphere interact?

How do the geosphere and the biosphere interact?

How do the biosphere and the hydrosphere interact?

What word refers to the solid Earth?

What part of the Earth includes all life forms & even organic matter?

There are two classifications of system, open and closed system. Why is Earth considered as a closed system?

7.8A Which of the following are likely to do the most damage to ecosystems along

the Rio Grande River?

Students performed an investigation on how aluminum cans taken to a recycle

center were able to be reused. They found out an aluminum can undergoes which type

of change?

Impaired waters are waters that do not meet water quality standards. The

Smith Creek Watershed is on the list of impaired waters within North Carolina. To help

clean up the watershed, local residents have volunteered to collect water quality data

through the Adopt-a-Stream program. Officials use this data to investigate and

eliminate sources of pollution.

Some of the sampling stations in the watershed are shown below. Next to each listing

is the highest turbidity reading found at each station. (Turbidity is measured in

Nephelometric Turbidity Units, NTU.)

Near which of these stations should inspectors first perform an investigation for a

possible pollution source?

Which of these is the best example of physical weathering?

A student kept a notebook during an investigation. Which recorded observation

was most likely a physical change?

Which of the following natural disasters is most likely to result in a narrow path

of destruction through a forest?

The diagram below shows a cross section of land. Numbers show four zones in this diagram.

Which set of labels below accurately identifies the zones that are shown?

A certain species of endangered parrots lives on an island that can be seriously affected by large floods. Which of these is considered a negative impact to the parrot population from flooding?

Use the picture to answer the question that follows.

Why did the mountain stream deposit so much eroded soil in the area marked X?

Which statement describes most groundwater?

What is the geosphere?

What is the biosphere?

What is the hydrosphere?

What is the atmosphere?

The waves in the ocean are part of _______.

Which sphere contains icebergs and glaciers

Which sphere contains trees and plants?

All of the animals and plants of the Earth are part of ________.

The layer that protects the Earth from direct rays of the sun is part of _________.

The rocky surface of the Earth is part of _______.