Geography - Chapter 2 Quiz review

The innermost layer of the earth.

• core

• mantle

• crust

The surface of the Earth...

• core

• mantle

• crust

The thickest layer of the earth...

• core

• mantle

• crust

the name for melted rock located "inside" the Earth that flows to the surface during a volcanic eruption?

• lava

• magma

• water

• fire

process by which weathered bits of rock are moved elsewhere by water, wind, or ice.

• weathering

• erosion

• plate tectonics

• water cycle

low flatlands

• mountains

• hills

• valleys

• plains

• plateaus

high flatlands on top of hills

• mountains

• valleys

• plains

• plateaus

Earth's highest landforms, huge towers of rock

• mountains

• hills

• valleys

• plains

• plateaus

a plateau off of a continent that lies under the ocean stretching for several miles.

• continental shelf

• trenches

• fault

• plate tectonics

deep cuts in the ocean floor

• isthmus

• trenches

• continental shelf

• plateaus