Chapter 2 L1 Questions pg. 40
1. What is a Continental Shelf?
An underwater extension of the coastal plain. They slope out from the land for as far as 800 miles.
2. What are the three parts of Earth’s Biosphere?
3. In What physical system does the Earth exist?
4. How Does the Biosphere support life on earth?
Chapter 2 L2 pg. 44
1. Explain how plate tectonics fold, lifts, bends, and breaks part of the Earth’s Surface?
2. How is the Earth’s Structure related to the creation of continents, oceans, and mountains
ranges?
3. How does plate tectonics affect Earth’s surface?
4. Explain the three kinds of erosion and how they change the surface of the Earth?
Write a description of the freshwater
sources of the earth, including how
they are used by humans. Pg 51
Freshwater of
the Earth