Geography Chapter 2 Review

Acid rain can damage Earth's environment.

By which process is liquid water turned into water vapor?

What causes earthquakes and volcanoes?

What is the largest type of ice mass?

Earth has 5 basic climate zones.

What causes the seasons to change on Earth?

How many layers make up the inside of the Earth?

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

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

How many continents are found on Earth?

What is the source of all energy on Earth?

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

The sun remains directly overhead in areas outside the tropics.

Movements of air are called wind.

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

Plains are never found among coastlines.

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

What percentage of Earth's water is salt water?

The Dead Sea is a freshwater sea.

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

What does elevation describe?

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

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

Continents are a type of landform surrounded by water.