Unit 2: Physical Geography Vocab Quiz

Which regions are close to the equator and experience dry and wet seasons?

• Rotation

• Tropics

• Solar energy

• Revolution

The energy from the sun, essential for survival

• biome
• savannas
• Solar energy

Regions close to the equator, dry and wet seasons

• extinct
• Plate tectonics
• tropics

Large areas of slow moving ice

• Natural resource
• weathering
• glaciers

Water that is found in rivers, streams, lakes (on the surface)

• Renewable resource
• erosion
• Surface water

Water that falls to the earth’s surface: rain, snow, sleet, hail

• Nonrenewable resource
• Alluvial deposition
• precipitation

Water that is below earth’s surface like in a cave

• deforestation
• weather
• groundwater

Shapes on the planet’s surface, such as hills or mountains.

• Hydroelectric power
• Ocean currents
• landforms

Large landmasses that are part of the Earth’s crust.

• lava
• glaciers
• continents

How scientists explain how forces below the Earth’s surface have shaped our landforms. Suggest that the Earth’s surface is divided into a dozen or so slow moving plates/pieces of Earth’s crust.

• earthquakes
• steppes
• Plate tectonics