Unit 1 - Test Review

Question 1

Soil Building

Answer 1

Process where the breakdown of rocks and organic materials creates arable farmland

Question 2

Biomes

Answer 2

A part of the biosphere that is determined by the plants & animals

Question 3

Tectonic Plates

Answer 3

Enormous moving pieces of the Earth’s lithosphere

Question 4

El Nino

Answer 4

Unusual warming of the surface of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean that increases precipital in North and South America

Question 5

Weathering

Answer 5

Wearing away of the Earth’s surface caused by the wind, water, ice, or chemicals

Question 6

Continental Location

Answer 6

Coastlines have mild stable temperatures while interior region have extreme temperature variator

Question 7

HEI

Answer 7

How humans change and are changed by their environment (By adapting vs. modifying)

Question 8

Soil-building causes

Answer 8

Arable Farmland

Question 9

Water Erosion causes

Answer 9

The Grand Canyon

Question 10

Convergent boundaries cause

Answer 10

Mountains

Question 11

Volcanoes cause

Answer 11

Formation of New Islands

Question 12

Earthquake under water cause

Answer 12

Tsunamis

Question 13

Glaciation causes

Answer 13

Lakes

Question 14

Divergent Boundaries cause

Answer 14

Rifts (Rift Valleys)

Question 15

Convergent Boundaries form

Answer 15

Mountains

Question 16

Divergent Boundaries form

Answer 16

Valleys

Question 17

Subduction Boundaries form

Answer 17

Volcanoes

Question 18

Transform Boundaries form

Answer 18

Faults

Question 19

Biosphere

Answer 19

All living things (plants & animals)

Question 20

Lithosphere

Answer 20

Non-living (soil & rocks)

Question 21

Atmosphere

Answer 21

The air and other gasses

Question 22

Hydrosphere

Answer 22

All the water

Question 23

Rain Shadow Effect

Answer 23

The mountains high elevation causes only ONE side to receive rain (one has moisture and the other is dry)

Question 24

How does elevation affect climate?

Answer 24

The higher you go the colder and the lower you go the warmer

Question 25

What would be the climate of an area near the coast?

Answer 25

Stable/Average temperatures and precipitation

Question 26

describe El Nino

Question 27

describe Blizzards

Question 28

describe Tropical Storms

Question 29

describe Earthquakes & Tsunamis