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Grade 5 Earth’s Systems Practice Test

Build Grade 5 Science skills with five 10-question practice tests on Earth’s spheres, system interactions, water, weather, erosion, and human impacts.

Earth’s Systems Practice Tests

These Grade 5 Science practice tests help students identify the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere and explain how they interact. Students also study the water cycle, weather and climate, weathering, erosion, landforms, human impacts, and evidence from local investigations.

Skills covered

  • Identifying the four major Earth systems
  • Explaining interactions among land, water, air, and living things
  • Describing evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, and transpiration
  • Distinguishing weather from climate
  • Explaining weathering, erosion, transport, and deposition
  • Using evidence to study local Earth systems
  • Evaluating human actions and possible solutions

How to use these practice tests

Look for the parts of Earth named in each situation. Then trace how matter or energy moves between systems, such as water moving from the surface into the atmosphere or runoff carrying soil into a stream.

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Grade 5 Earth’s Systems Practice Tests

A 10-question Grade 5 Science practice test on Earth systems, geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, cycles, weather, erosion, and human impacts.

Identify the Earth system or process described, then use the evidence to explain how Earth systems interact.

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1. QuestionMultiple choice

What is an Earth system?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A group of connected parts of Earth that interact and affect one another..

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: Earth systems include parts and processes that work together rather than existing in isolation.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is A group of connected parts of Earth that interact and affect one another..

Earth systems include parts and processes that work together rather than existing in isolation.

2. QuestionMultiple choice

Which Earth system includes rocks, soil, and landforms?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is The geosphere.

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: The geosphere includes the solid Earth, including rocks, soil, and landforms.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is The geosphere.

The geosphere includes the solid Earth, including rocks, soil, and landforms.

3. QuestionMultiple choice

Which Earth system includes oceans, rivers, ice, and groundwater?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is The hydrosphere.

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: The hydrosphere includes Earth’s liquid and frozen water as well as water underground.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is The hydrosphere.

The hydrosphere includes Earth’s liquid and frozen water as well as water underground.

4. QuestionMultiple choice

Which Earth system includes the layer of gases around Earth?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is The atmosphere.

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: The atmosphere is the layer of gases surrounding Earth.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is The atmosphere.

The atmosphere is the layer of gases surrounding Earth.

5. QuestionMultiple choice

Which Earth system includes living things?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is The biosphere.

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: The biosphere includes plants, animals, microorganisms, and other living organisms.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is The biosphere.

The biosphere includes plants, animals, microorganisms, and other living organisms.

6. QuestionMultiple choice

A fish swims in a river. Which two systems are directly involved?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is The biosphere and hydrosphere.

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: The fish is part of the biosphere and the river is part of the hydrosphere.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is The biosphere and hydrosphere.

The fish is part of the biosphere and the river is part of the hydrosphere.

7. QuestionMultiple choice

Which example shows the geosphere and hydrosphere interacting?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: C

The correct answer is Rainwater wears soil from a hillside into a stream..

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: Water from the hydrosphere moves soil and rock in the geosphere.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is Rainwater wears soil from a hillside into a stream..

Water from the hydrosphere moves soil and rock in the geosphere.

8. QuestionMultiple choice

Which example shows the atmosphere and biosphere interacting?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: D

The correct answer is Plants take carbon dioxide from the air and release oxygen..

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: Plants are in the biosphere and the gases are part of the atmosphere.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is Plants take carbon dioxide from the air and release oxygen..

Plants are in the biosphere and the gases are part of the atmosphere.

9. QuestionMultiple choice

Why are Earth systems studied together?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: A

The correct answer is A change in one system can cause changes in other systems..

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: Interactions connect land, water, air, and living things.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is A change in one system can cause changes in other systems..

Interactions connect land, water, air, and living things.

10. QuestionMultiple choice

Which question focuses on an interaction between systems?

Please select an answer first.

Correct answer: B

The correct answer is How does a drought affect plants, soil, and river levels?.

  1. Identify the Earth system: Decide which sphere, cycle, process, or interaction is described.
  2. Connect the evidence: The question asks how a change in water availability affects several Earth systems.
  3. Choose the best explanation: The correct choice is How does a drought affect plants, soil, and river levels?.

The question asks how a change in water availability affects several Earth systems.

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Frequently asked questions about Grade 5 Earth’s Systems

What are the four major Earth systems?

The geosphere includes solid Earth, the hydrosphere includes water, the atmosphere includes gases, and the biosphere includes living things.

How do Earth systems interact?

Matter and energy move between systems, so changes in land, water, air, or living things can affect the other systems.

How many questions are on this page?

The page includes five mini tests with 10 questions each, for 50 Grade 5 Earth’s Systems questions in total.