Physical Geography Quiz 2

Sea breeze, a local wind system characterized by a flow from sea to land during the day. It develops due to differences in air pressure created by the differing heat capacities of water and dry land.

The Campos, grassland with few trees or shrubs except near streams, lies between 24°S and 35°S; it includes parts of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, and all of Uruguay.

Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth's climate system observed since the pre-industrial period (between 1850 and 1900) due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth's atmosphere.

Isoneph is a line on a map connecting points that have the same average percentage of cloudiness.

A supernova is the biggest explosion that humans have ever seen. Each blast is the extremely bright, super-powerful explosion of a star.

Mongoloids people are concentrated in the nearby areas of the Himalayas, e.g. Ladakh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and other areas of the north-eastern India.

Anthracite is the highest rank of coal. It contains a high percentage of fixed carbon and a low percentage of volatile matter. It is the most metamorphosed type of coal (but still represents low-grade metamorphism), in which the carbon content is between 86% and 98%.

Mohorovicic Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the Earth's crust from the subjacent mantle at depths of 30–50 km below the continents and 5–10 km below sea level in the oceans.

Colourado, a western USA state, has a diverse landscape of arid desert, river canyons and snow-covered Rocky Mountains, which are partly protected by Rocky Mountain National Park. The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colourado River.

Soil erosion is the natural process in which the topsoil of a field is carried away by physical sources such as wind and water. In terrace farming, a terrace is a piece of the sloped plane that is cut into a series of successively receding platforms, that resemble steps. This prevents rain from washing away soil, hence preventing soil erosion.