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| the study of the earth and the ways people live and work on it |
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| the exact location of a place on the earth's surface |
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| the position of a place in relation to other places |
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| natural features of the earth's land surface |
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| center of earth; inner is solid rock, outer is melted rock |
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| surrounds the core; made of hot,solid rock |
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| a thin layer of rock, sand, and soil that floats on the mantle |
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| slow moving sections of the earth's crust |
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| theory that Pangaea separated into our 7 continents |
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| cone shaped mountains made when melted rock called lava flows up from the mantle, cracks the crust and cools into rock |
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| sudden shifts in the earth's crust when plates slide past one another |
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| a river and all the streams that flow into it |
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| the pattern of weather of a place over many years |
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| distance north or south of the Equator |
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| area bewtween the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn |
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| area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the North; area between Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle in the South |
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| area north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle |
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| moving air that comes from a certain direction almost all of the time |
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| ocean water that flows in a steady stream |
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| falling of moisture such as rain or snow |
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| BCE (BEFORE the COMMON ERA) |
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