Chapter 2 test review Our Planet

Maintains a considerably high temperature throughout the year.

Deep underwater holes.

Studies features of the landscape created by societies. Explains how human activities transform the earth’s surface.

The entirety of people who inhabit a certain region.

The distance between a point on the planet that can be located east or west.

Studies features of the terrain, the oceans, and the climate.

The way actual measurements of the earth’s surface are depicted on the map.

Contain detailed information including names or rivers, roads, and levels of terrain altitude.

Freshwater streams that flow into other bodies of water.

Depict the divisions or borders between one territory and another. They show municipalities, states, and provinces.

Reason(s) and factor(s) that determine how populations are distributed:

An imaginary line that goes around the world horizontally.

Two zones that have cold weather throughout the year.

Depict a region’s individual characteristics, such as language, population, or climate.

Made up of all landforms that exist on the Earth’s terrain; including plateaus, valleys, mountains and plains.

Consists of hardware and software that processes various types of information and compares them.

Mountain ranges on the seabeds.

Two zones with changing temperatures, the time of day and night also changes.

Large masses of piled up ice.

Device that lets us know the exact location of a place.

The distance between a point on the planet and the equator.

Vast expanses of salt water that cover most of our planet.

The science that describes and explains all the events and phenomena that take place on Earth.

A system of imaginary lines that allows us to locate any specific point of the Earth’s surface.

The science of studying the diverse amounts of bodies of water.

An imaginary line that crosses the earth from pole to pole.

Depict the terrain and bodies of water of a region.

Assortment of techniques used to acquire information of the terrestrial surface.

Bodies of water that are permanently deposited into a depression.

The combination of a region’s atmospheric conditions. Take into account the sun’s distance to the Earth.