Science Unit 3 Study Guide (Earth's Spheres)

Composed of all the water on or near the earth

• Hydrosphere 
• Biosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Geosphere 

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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 

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This sphere is composed of all the living things 

• Hydrosphere 
• Biosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Geosphere 

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Geo = 

• Earth
• Sphere
• Life
• Water

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Hydro = 

• Sphere
• Earth
• Life
• Water

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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 atmosphere 

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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 atmosphere 

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The prefix "bio" comes from a Greek word that means what?

• Life

• Water

• Earth

• Ground

If fishers continue to overfish, populations of fish will ​ (a)   , and marine ecosys​tems will ​become ​ (b)   stable.​

• decrease
• less
• increase
• more

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Decide if each human activity shown is helpful to fish populations or harmful to fish populations. Drag and drop each response into one of the columns below.

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(a) Helpful Human Activity

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(b) Harmful Human Activity

• People only eat one kind of fish on a regular basis.

• People eat fish that have large populations.

• Fishers reduce food sources for other marine animals.

• People protect environments where fish reproduce.

• Fishers use technology to find only the fish they want to catch.

• Fishers accidentally harm other marine animals when they fish.

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