This sphere includes the continents, the ocean floor, all the rocks on the surface, and all of the sand in the deserts.
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Atmosphere
Geosphere
2. Multiple Choice
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Composed of all the liquid water on or near the earth
Hydrosphere
Cryosphere
Atmosphere
Geosphere
3. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
This sphere is composed of all the living things
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Atmosphere
Cryosphere
4. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
Body of air surrounding our planet.
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Atmosphere
Cryosphere
5. Multiple Choice
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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
6. Multiple Choice
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When living things breathe, which of Earth's spheres are interacting?
Geosphere and Cryosphere
Hydrosphere and Biosphere
Atmosphere and Biosphere
Biosphere and Cryosphere
7. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
When dead plants decompose and nitrogen is returned to the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres?
The biosphere and atmosphere
The atmosphere and geosphere
The geosphere and atmosphere
The biosphere and geosphere
8. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
What might happen if the earth didn't have an atmosphere?
Everything would go flying off into space
The seasons would be longer
The earth's rotation would stop
We wouldn't be able to breathe
9. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
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 cryosphere
10. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
Oceans, rivers, lakes, and the moisture in the air are all part of which of Earth's spheres?
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
Atmosphere
Geosphere
11. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
When a plants takes carbon dioxide from the air which two spheres are interacting?
Biosphere and atmosphere
Geosphere and atmosphere
Hydrosphere and atmosphere
Atmosphere and cryosphere
12. Multiple Choice
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1 pt
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 cryosphere
13. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
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?
Hydrosphere and biosphere
Atmosphere and biosphere
Biosphere and biosphere
Geosphere and biosphere
14. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
When plants draw nutrients from the soil, the interaction is between which two spheres?
The atmosphere and the geosphere
The geosphere and the hydrosphere
The hydrosphere and atmosphere
The biosphere and the geosphere
15. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing glaciers to melt in the poles. What will happen to the hydrosphere.
The hydrosphere will shrink.
The hydrosphere will get larger.
The hydrosphere will turn to air.
The hydrosphere will not change.
16. Multiple Choice
30 seconds
1 pt
Polar bears living and hunting on the ice is which two spheres interacting.