Weekly Quiz: Earth Systems/Solar System

 Earth Systems and the Solar System

Answer the questions by highlighting the answers.

1. What is the geosphere?

a) The layer of gas that surrounds Earth. It is often called air.
b) All parts of and around the planet Earth where life can be found.

c)  the earth itself: the rocks, minerals, and landforms of the surface and interior.
d) All the water in, on, and around the planet Earth.

2. What is the hydrosphere?

a) The layer of gas that surrounds Earth. It is often called air.
b) All parts of and around the planet Earth where life can be found.

c)  the earth itself: the rocks, minerals, and landforms of the surface and interior.
d) All the water in, on, and around the planet Earth.

3. What is the biosphere?

a) The layer of gas that surrounds Earth. It is often called air.
b) All parts of and around the planet Earth where life can be found.

c)  the earth itself: the rocks, minerals, and landforms of the surface and interior.
d) All the water in, on, and around the planet Earth.

4. What is the atmosphere?

a) The layer of gas that surrounds Earth. It is often called air.
b) All parts of and around the planet Earth where life can be found.

c)  the earth itself: the rocks, minerals, and landforms of the surface and interior.
d) All the water in, on, and around the planet Earth.

5. Describe what tectonic plates are:

→ Pisces of crust that control the movement of the earth.

6. Describe the water cycle:

→ A way of water being transported

7. List some of the different types of rocks?

→ Metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rocks. 

8. Describe how tsunamis are created (hint you will need to think about earthquakes too):

→They are created by earthquakes when they shake water.

 
9. List the planets that are in the solar system in order:

→ Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (Pluto?)

10. Which planet is no longer considered to be a plant?

a) Saturn b) Mars c) Venus d) Mercury

e) Jupiter f) Pluto g) Earth h) Neptune