World Geography Chapter 2 Test

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. A rainstorm is an example of

• Weathering

• Condensation

• precipitation

• groundwater

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Some freshwater is not available because

• It is being used to create energy

• It is in the form of precipitation

• it is locked inside glaciers

• It is trapped inside clouds

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Which theory suggests that the continents were once part of 1 supercontinent?

• tilt and rotation

• Eruption patterns

• Ring of Fire

• Continental drift

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

If the poles are tilted neither toward or away from the sun, which two seasons might it be?

• Summer or spring

• Spring or fall

• summer or winter

• Winter or fall

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Monsoons are

• Seasonal winds that bring heavy rain

• Weathered landforms

• Volcanic eruptions

• Low latitudes

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

How are sand dunes formed?

• The soil erodes away and sand is underneath

• People create them by moving sand to beaches

• Sand is deposited by glaciers

• Sand is deposited by the wind

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Every 24 hours, Earth completes one

• Axis

• rotation

• revolution

• tilt

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

If you saw a canyon with a river flowing through it, what might you conclude?

• The river has eroded the canyon

• There is a river delta nearby.

• The river is a natural spring from deep within earth.

• Gusts of wind from the river have eroded the canyon.

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Earth's landforms include mountains, valleys, and

• Lakes

• Rivers

• peninsulas

• glaciers

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Mount Saint Helens, Hawaii and the San Fernando Valley are all examples of

• Plates

• Mountains

• landforms

• Weathering