Chapter 2

Basic life on Earth exists in the forms we know due to...

• it's relative location.

• it's distance from the sun in our solar system.

• the amount of water is surrounding the area.

What works to form Earth's surface?

• the people and animals living there

• cooled lava from volcanoes

• forces of wind and water, as well as pressure beneath Earth's crust

Which planets are nearest to the sun?

• Mercury, Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

What are the farther out planets called?

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

• Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, and Neptune

What are characteristics of the inner planets?

• terrestrial with solid, rocky crusts

• less dense and more gaseous

• terrestrial and more gaseous

What are characteristics of the outer planets?

• terrestrial with solid, rocky crusts

• less dense and more gaseous

• less dense with rocky crusts

Of the eight planets which allows liquid water?

• Earth

• Mars

• Venus

Only Earth's relation to the Sun allows...

• life forms to exist

• it to spin on its axis

What is Earth's hydrosphere?

• oceans, lakes, and rivers

• continents, islands, and basins beneath the ocean

What is considered the Earth's crust, or lithosphere?

• continents, islands, and basins beneath the ocean

• oceans, lakes, and rivers