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| the boundary that separates rivers flowing toward the opposite sides of a continent in North America, in the Rocky Mountains. |
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| a huge, slow moving sheet of ice that fills valleys between mountains |
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| routes through which people can travel by foot, vehicle, rail, ship, or airplane |
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| a stream that flows into a larger river or a body of water |
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| an area on the side of a mountain away from the wind that receives little rainfall |
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| the area on Earth between the 23 degrees North and 23 degrees South lines of latitude where the climate is almost always hot. |
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| a cold, dry region covered with snow for more than half the year; a vast, treeless plain where the subsoil is always frozen |
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| permanently frozen layer of ground of ground below the top layer of soil |
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| a region of flat or rolling land covered with tall grasses |
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| reacting to the fertile topsoil left by the rivers after a flood |
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| electric power produced by moving water, usually generated by releasing water from a dam across a river |
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