Unit 2- review

4. the long-term pattern of weather.
5. German scientist who created the “Continental Drift” theory.
9. soil needs ___ to hold moisture.
10. how many eras are there?
11. water that falls to the earth in any form.
13. indicated as a line graph on a climate graph.
14. when two plates come together.
16. ___ helps keep soil from being too compact.
17. Canada’s largest landform.
21. the day to day characteristics of the atmosphere.
22. ice has the power to ___ the shape of the land because of its hardness and heaviness.
24. cold, frozen Iceland, Canada’s coldest biome.
25. you can read temperature in degrees on this side of the climate graph.
26. physical weathering example.

1. Tuzla, Wilson, creator of this theory (there are 20 of these in total.
2. trees that lose leaves in winter (are not evergreen)
3. breakdown of materials in the Earth’s crust into sediment.
6. the higher up you go, the colder the climate becomes.
7. chemical weathering example.
8. A string of volcanoes and earth quakes around the edges of the Pacific Ocean.
12. long narrow inlets.
15. soil is composed of ___ and inorganic components.
18. when the plates move apart from each other.
19. season of maximum precipitation for continental climates.
20. moves sediments that weathering breaks down.
23. large section of ice and snow that moves across the land, shaping it.