Earth's Spheres Vocabulary

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 

Composed of all the liquid water on or near the earth

• Hydrosphere 
• Cryosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Geosphere 

This sphere is composed of all the living things 

• Hydrosphere 
• Biosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Cryosphere 

Body of air surrounding our planet. 

• Hydrosphere 
• Biosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Cryosphere 

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 

When living things breathe, which of Earth's spheres are interacting? 

• Geosphere and Cryosphere
• Hydrosphere and Biosphere
• Atmosphere and Biosphere
• Biosphere and Cryosphere

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 

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 

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 

Oceans, rivers, lakes, and the moisture in the air are all part of which of Earth's spheres? 

• Hydrosphere 
• Biosphere 
• Atmosphere 
• Geosphere