Interaction of Earth Spheres

Which statement shows an interaction among Earth's spheres?

• Rain falls and waters plants, helping them to grow.

• An asteroid strikes the Earth, forming a huge crater.

• A pack of wolves hunts a herd of deer in the woods.

• Ice melts and flows into a stream that flows into a large lake.

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Which of the following provides the best example of an interaction between the hydrosphere and the atmosphere?

• Carbon dioxide gas is released into the air by living things.

• Consistent patterns of wind change the shape of landforms.

• The oceans release heat energy that makes climate milder.

• Water vapor in the air is taken into plants through their leaves.

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

• Hydrosphere

• Biosphere

• Atmosphere

• Geosphere

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Which group of things is part of the hydrosphere?

• oxygen, nitrogen, helium, and pollutants

• sand, hills, ash, gravel, lava

• rivers, steam, ice cubes, ponds, fog, rain

• sunflowers, coral, mice, snakes, mold, humans

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Scientists model the Earth system by dividing it into what four parts?

• sun, land, water, living things

• air, water, surface, inner core

• air, fire, water, ice

• land, water, living things, air

All changes and interactions among Earth's spheres need energy from the

• air masses.

• ocean.

• sun.

• weather.

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Which of the following is found in the earths Geosphere

• Soil

• Rocks

• Minerals

• All of the Above

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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 

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Shifting winds causes major rain storms which floods rivers, lakes and streams. Which 2 spheres are interacting in this event?

• hydrosphere and atmosphere

• hydrosphere and biosphere

• biosphere and atmosphere

• geosphere and hydrosphere

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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 atmosphere