Unit 2.2 Vocab World Geo

Tall flat land above surrounding areas

• mountain range
• hills
• plateau
• alluvial fan

New forest being planted

• Deforestation
• Reforestation
• Magma
• Mantle

Soil near the surface that has been affected by bacteria, insects, worms

• Abyssal plain
• Alluvial fan
• Humus
• none of these

Earth getting warmer in recent decades

• Greenhouse effect
• Global Warming
• Climate
• None of these

Destruction of forests

• Reforestation
• Global Warming
• Limbering
• None of these

Water changing from liquid to gas

• evaporation
• condensation
• humidity
• water shed

Winds blowing same direction all year

• Doldrums
• Prevailing winds
• Equator winds
• None of these

Zone that has the Earths mass

• Mantle
• Core
• Crust
• Lithosphere

Process of plates slowly moving across the upper mantle, less than an inch per year

• Bubonic plague
• Plate tectonics
• Continental Drift
• None of these

places on Earth’s surface where the crust stretches until it breaks

• Rift Valley
• Abyssal Plain
• Alluvial Fan
• Delta