Geography Vocab Ch 2

Layers of gasses that surround the earth

• atmosphere

• hydrosphere

• lithosphere

• xenosphere

the area of solid matter on the surface of the earth:

• atmosphere

• hydrosphere

• lithosphere

• biosphere

a main river and all of its tributaries:

• hydrosphere

• river system

• continents

• crust

the solid outer part of the earth:

• crust

• mantle

• biosphere

• core

seven primary landmasses of the earth's surface

• biodome

• pangea

• continental drift

• continents

the process whereby glaciers recede and sweep away materials, creating u-shape valleys

• continental drift

• glacial sphere

• biosphere

• glaciation

violent upheaval or change in the earth's crust

• cataclysm

• earthquake

• plate tectonic

• glaciation

TRUE OR FALSE: natural breakdown and removal of materials on earth's surface is erosion

The San Andrea's fault is approximately __________ miles long.

• 15

• 760

• 8,000

• 800

the view that large sections of the earth's crust move, producing earthquakes and volcanoes

• natural theory

• plate tectonics theory

• continental drift theory

• pangea theory