GEOGRAPHY CHAPTER 2 REVIEW QUIZ

What is letter A?

A thin layer of gases that surrounds the earth.

What is letter C?

The five factors that influence soil formation are: climate, topography, geology, biology, time.

The removal of salt from seawater is called desalination.

Chemical or physical processes that break down rocks into smaller pieces

A moraine is a pile of rocky debris left by melting glaciers.

What is letter B?

Molten rock that is located BELOW the Earth's surface

What is letter D?

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The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart.

Sudden violent movements of the lithosphere along fault lines are known as:

Process by which magma wells up between oceanic plates and pushes the plates apart

What is letter D?

Part of a continent that extends out underneath the ocean.

What is letter A?

Which is NOT part of the Biosphere?

Slow process in which and oceanic plate slides under a continental plate, creating debris that can cause ourward growth

What is letter B?

Process of cracking that occurs when the folded land cannot be bent any further

What is letter E?

The part of the Earth where life exists.

The crust is about 75 inches deep.

The water areas of the Earth, including oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water.

The movement of weathered rock and material by wind, glaciers, and moving water

The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift (also creates many of Earth's physical features)

A large body of ice that moves across the surface of the Earth

Dirt is the product of thousands of years of weathering, erosion and biological activity

The grinding motion of the techtonic plates does NOT cause earthquakes.

An aquifer is underground water bearing layers of porous rock, sand, or gravel.

What is letter C?

Uppermost layer of the Earth that includes the crust, continents, and ocean basins.