Chapter 2 test review Our Planet

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

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

An imaginary line that goes around the world horizontally.

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

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.

The entirety of people who inhabit a certain region.

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

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

Mountain ranges on the seabeds.

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

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

Freshwater streams that flow into other bodies of water.

Depict the terrain and bodies of water of a region.

Two zones that have cold weather throughout the year.

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

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

Bodies of water that are permanently deposited into a depression.

Deep underwater holes.

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

Maintains a considerably high temperature 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Large masses of piled up ice.