Chapter 2 Open Note Test

When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is ______ in the Southern Hemisphere.

• winter

• fall

• spring

• summer

What helps create the seasons?

• Earth's tilt and revolutions

• Earth's water

• Earth's position to the moon

• Earth's planet size

What causes the climate close to the equator throughout the four seasons?

• the sun hits the equator directly all year

• the Earth rotates slower in the winter

• the Earth's revolution gains days each year

• the sun is covered by the moon part of the year

Solstice is......

• first day of summer

• first day of winter

• first day of spring

• first day of fall

True or False: Daylight hours and temperatures increase from summer to winter.

• True

• False

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Equinox is ........

• first day of summer

• first day of winter

• first day of spring

• first day of fall

True or False: The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn are lines of longitude

• true

• false

For the Southern Hemisphere, the seasons are the opposite of the Northern Hemisphere.

• True

• False

Continental ​ (a)   is the ​ (b)   that all continents were once joined into a ​ (c)   continent.

• drift
• water
• trench
• hypothesis
• idea
• plan
• super
• spheres
• layer

The solid rock portion of the Earth's surface is the .......

• lithosphere

• hydrosphere

• biosphere

• atmosphere