Define escarpments

A) Long stretches of savanna

B) high elevation plateaus, found mainly in alpine regions

C) Barrier mountains that mark desert edges

D) Steep jagged cliffs that mark the edges of plateaus

Mexico city is an example of how humans alter their environment because it was a. one of the world’s largest cities b. built on drained and filled lake beds c. built after conquest by the spanish d. once the capital of the aztec empire

Some of the incoming solar radiation is absorbed by the floor. identify the type of electromagnetic energy reradiated by the floor

Use your vocabulary words to complete the sentences below. australia and new zealand are in nature meaning they are located between temperate and tropical climates. oceania, on the other hand, has a tropical climate with numerous island chains, many of which are home to , which are islands made from coral. this entire region rests on the edges of plates, and therefore they are prone to earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. since most of the islands were formed from volcanoes, rock can be found everywhere.