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| a large, slow moving mass of ice |
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| the wearing away and movement of weathered materials by wind water and ice |
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| pieces of rock in the form of sand stone or silt deposited by wind water and ice |
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| one of seven large landmasses on the eath's surface |
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| a lag rigid section of the eath's crust that is in contained motion |
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| a sudden movement of the eath's crust followed by a series of shocks |
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| a zone of volcanowes around the picific ocen |
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| an openining in the eath's crust from which moltin rock ash hot gases flow or are thrown out |
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| the gradual physical and chemical brewkdown of rocks on the eath's surface |
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| the area driand by a major river |
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| water found beneatherths surfacs |
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| the circulation of wate between the earth the ocean and the atmosphere |
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| a feature on the eath's surface formed by pysical force |
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| a broad flat area of land higher than the surrounding land |
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| the differnets i the elevation of a landform its lowest point to its hiest point |
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| the submergd land at the edge of a contana |
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| the layer of gases that surround the earth |
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| the time during the year when the sun reaches the farthest northan point or the sounther point |
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| one of the two times a year the suns rays are over the eqter and the days and nights around the worldare= |
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| the conditons that the earth athat the eath gives time and place |
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| the typical weather condtion of a reigin over a prid of time |
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| falling water droplets in the from of rian snow hal orsleet |
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| an area that has similer plants |
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| a vegetation region with a mix of grassland and scattered trees |
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| a region with plants specially adapted to dry condituons |
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| substances discharged into the air |
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| a gas camposed of cadon and oxygen |
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| using natural resources in a way that they exist for future generation |
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| the process in which farmland bcomes less productive because the land is degraded |
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| fuels such as coal, oil, and naturle gas |
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| any gas in the atmosphere that contributes to the greenhouse effet |
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| the trapping of the sunes heat by gases in the eath's atmosphere |
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| an increase in the avrige tempiture of the earth's atmosphere |
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