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WorksheetsEarth's Spheres
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
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
2.
Composed of all the liquid water on or near the earth
a)
Hydrosphere
b)
Cryosphere
c)
Atmosphere
d)
Geosphere
3.
This sphere is composed of all the living things
a)
Hydrosphere
b)
Biosphere
c)
Atmosphere
d)
Cryosphere
4.
Body of air surrounding our planet.
a)
Hydrosphere
b)
Biosphere
c)
Atmosphere
d)
Cryosphere
5.
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
6.
When living things breathe, which of Earth's spheres are interacting?
a)
Geosphere and Cryosphere
b)
Hydrosphere and Biosphere
c)
Atmosphere and Biosphere
d)
Biosphere and Cryosphere
7.
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
8.
What might happen if the earth didn't have an atmosphere?
a)
Everything would go flying off into space
b)
The seasons would be longer
c)
The earth's rotation would stop
d)
We wouldn't be able to breathe
9.
When carbon dioxide dissolves from the air into the ocean- the interaction is between...
a)
The atmosphere and geosphere
b)
The atmosphere and hydrosphere
c)
The atmosphere and biosphere
d)
The atmosphere and cryosphere
10.
Oceans, rivers, lakes, and the moisture in the air are all part of which of Earth's spheres?
a)
Hydrosphere
b)
Biosphere
c)
Atmosphere
d)
Geosphere
11.
When a plants takes carbon dioxide from the air which two spheres are interacting?
a)
Biosphere and atmosphere
b)
Geosphere and atmosphere
c)
Hydrosphere and atmosphere
d)
Atmosphere and cryosphere
12.
When volcanoes erupt, dust and ash particles spread through much of the air blocking the sun. Which two spheres are interacting?
a)
Hydrosphere and atmosphere
b)
Geosphere and atmosphere
c)
Biosphere and atmosphere
d)
Atmosphere and cryosphere
13.
Energy from the sun is stored by plants. When animals eat the plants, they acquire the energy originally captured by the plants. Between which two spheres is the above interaction?
a)
Hydrosphere and biosphere
b)
Atmosphere and biosphere
c)
Biosphere and biosphere
d)
Geosphere and biosphere
14.
When plants draw nutrients from the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres?
a)
The atmosphere and the geosphere
b)
The geosphere and the hydrosphere
c)
The hydrosphere and atmosphere
d)
The biosphere and the geosphere
15.
Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing glaciers to melt in the poles. What will happen to the hydrosphere.
a)
The hydrosphere will shrink.
b)
The hydrosphere will get larger.
c)
The hydrosphere will turn to air.
d)
The hydrosphere will not change.
16.
Polar bears living and hunting on the ice is which two spheres interacting.
a)
Biosphere and Hydrosphere
b)
Biosphere and Atmosphere
c)
Biosphere and Geosphere
d)
Biosphere and Cryosphere
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