What I Know Pages13-14 ANSWEREDCoronel, leerusselJ.11ABMATHENA
What I Know Pages13-14 ANSWEREDCoronel, leerusselJ.11ABMATHENA
What I Know
Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet
of paper.
1. Which of the following is NOT one of the four subsystems of the Earth?-C
A. biosphere C. water sphere
B. hydrosphere D. geosphere
2. All of the waters, including subsurface and atmospheric water comprise
the Earth. Which geological subsystem best label the statement?- B
A. the geosphere C. the biosphere
B. the hydrosphere D. the atmosphere
3. Earth contains all living organisms including those on the land, in the
water and air. Which subsystem best describes the statement? -D
A. biosphere C. atmosphere
B. hydrosphere D. geosphere
4. Which subsystem suits the statement, “All living things, including
humans, are part of the immense Earth”? -A
A. biosphere C. hydrosphere
B. geosphere D. atmosphere
5. What subsystem will network with biosphere for photosynthesis to take
place? -B
A. atmosphere C. hydrosphere
B. geosphere D. biosphere
6. Oxygen, water vapor, nitrogen, and other gases help organism to survive .
Which Earth sphere contain these materials? -B
A. biosphere C. hydrosphere
B. atmosphere D. geosphere
7. Which term is used to describe the thin layer of solid rock that makes up
the outermost part of the Earth? -B
A. core C. mantle
B. crust D. biosphere
8. Among the subsystems, which is composed of a mixture of gases that
surrounds the Earth? -B
A. nitrogen C. biosphere
B. atmosphere D. kingdoms
9. The atmosphere of the Earth is composed of ___ nitrogen and _____
oxygen and other gases. -C
A. 0% and 100% C. 78% and 21%
B. 21% and 78% D. 505 and 505
10. In what subsystem of the Earth are the rocks and mineral found? -D
A. atmosphere C. hydrosphere
B. biosphere D. geosphere
11. What part of the Earth’s sphere make up hydrosphere? -D
A. glaciers C. seawater and inland
water
B. groundwater D. all of the above
12. Among all the gases, which gas composed the Earth’s
atmosphere? -C
A. CO2 C. N2
B. He D. O2
13.Ozone plays an important part for organisms to stay alive. To what
sphere does ozone belong? -A
A. atmosphere C. geosphere
B. biosphere D. hydrosphere
14.Which answer best describes the role of the ozone layer? A. It traps heat
from the sun to heat the planet. -C
B. It protects the plants and animals on earth from receiving too
much ultraviolet radiation.
C. It cools the earth through the evaporation of water vapor
D. It keeps the oxygen in the atmosphere closest to Earth and the
nitrogen separated in the atmosphere.
15.Which of the following is an example of a human impact of the biosphere?
-A
A. littering C. water pollution
B. air pollution D. littering, air and water pollution