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7th Grade
01/10/2012

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What are forms of vegitation?
Definition
trees and plants
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What do some farmers practice?
Definition
crop rotation to avoid using up all the minerals in the soil
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What is found in the Amazon Basin?
Definition
the world's largest rain forest
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Where is most of the world's salt water found?
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in the oceans
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What are in a tropical climate?
Definition
most of the area around the equator in South America and Africa
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What are large masses of water that are frozen?
Definition
glaciers and ice sheets
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What is located in a high latitude climate region?
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sub-artic climate, tundra climate, and ice-cap climate
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What is water held in the atmosphere in the form of gas?
Definition
water vapor
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What are usually warm?
Definition
northeasterly trade winds
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What are doldrums?
Definition
wind patterns found along the equater
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Where could you experience Prevailing Wsterlies?
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Near the Great Lakes of North America
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Where do cold winds originate?
Definition
North and South poles
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