Chapter 2 - The Physical World
Chapter Essential Questions
As a physical system, what makes the Earth suitable for plant and animal life?
How have internal and external forces shaped Earth's surface?
What physical process keeps Earth's water constant?
Chapter Concept/Skill
Describe how sections of the earth’s crust move to shape the land surface.
List the earth’s many different land forms.
Understand that people depend on the earth for the materials for basic survival
Chapter Two/Section Assignments
Reading Guide 13-16 Water
Academic Language- Basic
Core
drift
spreading
fold
fault
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Academic Language- Complex
Hydrosphere
Lithosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Continental shelf
Mantle
Crust
Plate tectonics
Erosion
Weathering
Glacier
accretion
moraine
Water cycle
Desalination
Groundwater
Aquifer