NATURAL SCIENCE: ATMOSPHERE AND HYDROSPHERE Number: Test

Last Name/First Name: Group: Date:

04.05.2011
Orthography: Sintax: Global:

1. The picture shows an image of the

atmosphere with its different layers.
a) Enter the name of each of them in the
yellow labels.
b) Complete the sentence: “Atmospheric air is
made up of 78% of ……………………….., 21 %
of ………………………….. and other gases such
as ……………………………… and ……………………..
………………..
c) What is the difference between the
composition of the current and old
atmospheres.

d) In which layer of the atmosphere do the meteorological phenomena -such as rain and clouds- occur?

2. What are the main properties of the Earth's atmosphere?

3. What is the weather? What conditions are included in the weather?

4. How the winds are produced?

5. How winds occur? What is the difference between a cyclone (A, from Anticiclón in Spanish) and a storm (B,
from Borrasca in Spanish)? Draw a picture to explain it.

6. What are the clouds made up of? When the water falls from a cloud?

7. Complete the following table indicating three meteorological instruments and their usefulness.
Instrument Usefulness
8. Many times we talk about the air pollution (=contamination).
a) What is the main cause of it?

b) What are the major air contaminants?

9. Find the relationships between the items in A B

column “A” to those in column “B” and justify Soot Acid rain
your answer. Carbon dioxide The hole in the ozone layer
CFC gases Respiratory diseases
Sulphur and nitrate dioxides Global warming
Ozone in troposphere Cities are dirtier

10. Suppose you are appointed Minister for the Environment in the next National Government. What actions
should be taken to reduce air pollution in our cities?

11. Why there were no oceans for the first 500 million years of existence of our planet?

12. How much water is there for human consumption on Earth and where can we find it? Justify it.

13. What do we mean by "water cycle"? Describe it and label

the picture.
14. What are the properties of water? Why does ice float in water?

15. Is there any relationship between surface water and groundwater? If there is, describe it; if there isn’t,
justify it. How important is this behavior to the biosphere? Why is that?

16. Natural water and drinking water:

a) What's the difference?

b) What should we do with the natural water before drinking?

17. How do we use water?

18. As you continue as Environment’s Minister of the Nation’s Government, you have to implement measures
to prevent water pollution, what actions would you set?

19. The table contains a number of pollutants in water. Indicates what type of use such waste water will be
discharged.
Pollutant Source of pollution
Detergents
Temperature
Fertilizers
Heavy metals

20. Describes the outline of a wastewater treatment plant.