Six blank lines on one landscape diagram make up this 2-page 5th grade worksheet on Earth's four spheres. Students label each part of the scene with Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Atmosphere, or Geosphere from the word bank. The instructions warn that some spheres appear more than once, so the four words must stretch across six lines. The answer key names the part of the scene each line points to, from the clouds to the river, for NGSS 5-ESS2-1.
5-ESS2-1
“Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.”
All six labels, A to F, which turn one landscape into a model with all four spheres in view, including the river and the soil side by side.
Students write a sphere name on lines A to F of a landscape that shows clouds, a mountain, a forest, an ocean, a river, and the ground.
Four terms for six lines. Hydrosphere and Geosphere each fit twice, once for the ocean and river and once for the mountain and the soil.
Warm-up
Project the diagram and let students call out the sphere for each line. It takes under five minutes and sets up a lesson on how the spheres interact.
Interaction follow-up
Once the labels are done, have students draw one arrow between two labeled parts, such as the river and the mountain, and write what happens there.
Misconception check
Look at line E. Students who label the river as geosphere because it sits on land are mixing up where a thing is with what it is.
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