World Geography - Chapter 2 Review

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

• Hydrosphere
• Lithosphere
• Atmosphere
• Biosphere 

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

• Lithosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Atmosphere
• Biosphere

A thin layer of gases that surrounds the Earth

• Atmosphere
• Hydrosphere
• Lithosphere
• Biosphere

The part of the Earth where life exists

• Hydrosphere
• Lithosphere
• Atmosphere
• Biosphere

Part of a continent that extends out underneath the Ocean.

• Continental Shelf
• Continental Theory

Innermost layer of the Earth made up of a super-hot solid inner core and a super-hot outer core?

• Core
• Mantle 
• Crust
• Magma

Thick middle layer of the Earth's interior structure consisting of hot rock that is dense but flexible.

• Core
• Mantle 
• Crust 
• Magma

outer layer of the Earth , a hard rocky shell forming Earth's surface

• Core 
• Mantle 
• Crust
• Plate Tectonics

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

• Core
• Mantle 
• Crust
• Continental Drift

The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow, which create many of Earth's physical features?

• Continental Drift
• Continental Theory 
• Plate Tectonics
• Magma