Students in Grade 5 analyze sphere interactions in this medium worksheet that links air, land, water, and life across many natural events. Nine fill-in items cover photosynthesis, ocean salinity, and frozen freshwater, while the matching task pairs events such as hurricanes and wildfires with the two spheres they link. The worksheet emphasizes that Earth's systems rarely act alone, building stronger reasoning about cause and effect across spheres.
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Earth's Systems: Water and Weather
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. When a volcano erupts, lava from the geosphere releases gases into the atmosphere.
2. Plants take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis.
3. Rivers carry sediment from the geosphere into the hydrosphere.
4. Animals drinking from a stream connect the biosphere with the hydrosphere.
5. Most of Earth's water, about 97 percent, is salty ocean water.
6. Most of Earth's freshwater is locked up in glaciers and polar ice.
7. Wind blowing dust from a desert into the ocean links the geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.
8. A short-term atmospheric event like a thunderstorm is called weather.
9. When snow melts and trickles into soil, the hydrosphere connects with the geosphere.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
Hurricane forming
→ Atmosphere and hydrosphere
Atmosphere and hydrosphere
Tree roots cracking rock
→ Biosphere and geosphere
Biosphere and geosphere
Fish swimming in a lake
→ Biosphere and hydrosphere
Biosphere and hydrosphere
Wildfire smoke rising
→ Biosphere and atmosphere
Biosphere and atmosphere
Earth's Systems: Water and Weather
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) When a volcano erupts, lava from the geosphere releases gases into the atmosphere.
2) Plants take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis.
3) Rivers carry sediment from the geosphere into the hydrosphere.
4) Animals drinking from a stream connect the biosphere with the hydrosphere.
5) Most of Earth's water, about 97 percent, is salty ocean water.
6) Most of Earth's freshwater is locked up in glaciers and polar ice.
7) Wind blowing dust from a desert into the ocean links the geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.
8) A short-term atmospheric event like a thunderstorm is called weather.
9) When snow melts and trickles into soil, the hydrosphere connects with the geosphere.
★ Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1) Match each item to its correct answer.
Hurricane forming
→ Atmosphere and hydrosphere
Atmosphere and hydrosphere
Tree roots cracking rock
→ Biosphere and geosphere
Biosphere and geosphere
Fish swimming in a lake
→ Biosphere and hydrosphere
Biosphere and hydrosphere
Wildfire smoke rising
→ Biosphere and atmosphere
Biosphere and atmosphere
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