Chapter 2 Review

a large, unbroken mass of land

• Continent
• Ocean
• Country

• Mountain

a process that makes salt water safe to drink

• Evaporation
• Desalination

• Filtration
• Condensation

one of two days each year when the sun is directly overhead at the Equator

• Summer Solstice
• Winter Solstice
• Equinox
• Eclipse

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

• Erosion
• Weathering

• Evaporation
• Transpiration

a place where two tectonic plates grind against each other

• Fault

• Volcano
• Isthmus

• Erosion

a narrow strip of land that connects two larger land areas

• Isthmus
• Peninsula
• Archipelago
• Atoll

to circle around something

• Orbit

• Revolution

• Spin

• Revolve

a complete trip of Earth around the sun

• Revolution

• Orbit

• 24 hours

• Solstice

one of two days of the year when the sun reaches its northernmost or southernmost point

• Equinox
• Solstice
• Eclipse
• Perihelion

one of the 16 pieces of Earth's crust

• Tectonic Plate
• Continental Shelf
• Mantle
• Lithosphere