Looking at the Earth
Chapter 1 Study Guide
Define or identify the following:

isthmus	Mt. Everest	
Mariana Trench	3651/4	
geography	Southern Hemisphere	
Earth	sun	
axis		

			Which letter on the map is located on the continent of Asia?

			What does the letter “D” show on this map?

The earth’s 1,000-mile (1,609-km)-thick cushion of gases is called the _______________________________.

The area that surrounds the earth’s core is called the ____________________________.

Plains and mountains are examples of ___________________________.

About 70 percent of the earth’s surface is ____________________________.
Magma can be seen in a(n) ____________________________________.

The earth’s crust includes ocean floors and ________________________________.

The angle of the sun’s rays causes the _____________________________________.

Weathering is a process that ________________________________.

When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is summer in the _________________________________.

Off each coast of a continent lies a plateau called a(n) ___________________________________.

Water, wind, and ice move weathered material through a process called _____________________.

Fill in the blanks

Dangerous rays from the sun are screened out on the earth by the ______________________________.