Geography Chapter 2

What is the name for the long, narrow band of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean?

What is a biome with cold temperatures and a short growing season?

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

How many days are in a year?

Which two continents are completely surrounded by water?

What is a name for a giant ocean wave that can cause great destruction?

What do we call the process by which water, wind, or ice moves bits of rock elsewhere?

What is it called when day and night in both hemispheres are of equal length?

Which is the largest type of ice mass?

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

What occurs on or around December  22nd?

What does elevation describe?

An area located at the mouth of a river is called a:

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

What is the source of all energy on Earth?

What causes the seasons to change on Earth?

What percent of Earth's surface is water?

What percentage of Earth's water is salt water?

By which process is liquid water turned into water vapor?

What is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas?

What occurs on or around June 21st?

What is an underwater plain that borders a continent?

Freshwater makes up the world's oceans.

What term describes the increase in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere?

What is the center of Earth called?

What is the imaginary line running through Earth's center called?

What causes earthquakes and volcanoes?

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

How many continents are found on Earth?

Acid rain can damage Earth's environment.

Which is a small ice mass that spreads outward on a land surface?

What is the name for a large, continuous mass of land?