Geography Chapter 2 Review

What is the source of all energy on Earth?

By which process is liquid water turned into water vapor?

What is the name for a long, narrow, steep-sided cut in the ground or one the ocean floor?

What force has caused the fastest change in Earth's environment in the last 50 years?

What is the correct term for Earth's completion of one full trip around the sun

Plains are never found among coastlines.

The sun remains directly overhead in areas outside the tropics.

How many continents are found on Earth?

Continents are a type of landform surrounded by water.

Earth has 5 basic climate zones.

What percentage of Earth's water is salt water?

Movements of air are called wind.

Earth's atmosphere has more nitrogen than oxygen in it.

The Dead Sea is a freshwater sea.

Earth's oceans are actually connected and form one global ocean.

What causes the seasons to change on Earth?

What is the name given to the regular movement of water?

Rain generally falls on the side of the mountain facing the ocean.

What is the largest type of ice mass?

What process works with weathering to change Earth's surface?

Acid rain can damage Earth's environment.

How many layers make up the inside of the Earth?

What causes earthquakes and volcanoes?

What does elevation describe?