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| `the study of earth's natural landscapes and physical systems, including the atmosphere. |
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| the study of people past or present. |
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| Regions are areas of earth's surface with one or more shared characteristics. |
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| describes the position of a place in relation to another place |
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| defines an exact spot on earth |
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| the art and science of map making |
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| a geographers point of view |
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| contain open land that is often used for farming |
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| _____ areas contain cities |
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| the movement of ideas or behaviors from one region to another |
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| to track earths larger atmospheric systems |
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| the original super continent |
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| the layer of gases-the air-that surrounds the earth |
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| the outer solid layer of earth |
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| a gently sloping underwater land surrounding each continent |
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| the pacific plates are rimmed with volcanoes |
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| the line of latitude located 66.5 degrees north of the equator |
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| the line of latitude 66.5 degrees south of the equator |
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| consists of the sun and everything that orbits it |
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| any smaller stream or river that flows into a smaller stream or river |
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| the circulation of water from earth's surface to the atmosphere and back |
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| one complete spin of earth on it's axis |
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| it takes a year for earth to orbit the sun or ______. |
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soil contains decayed plant and animal matter called
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| the process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy. |
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| the process of earth's atmosphere traps in heat. |
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| substances promoting growth. |
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| an instrument used for measuring atmospheric pressure. |
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| the condition of the atmosphere at a given place or time. |
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| winds that blow in the same direction over large areas of earth. |
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| when a large amount of warm air meets a large amount of cold air, an area of unstable weather forms. this called a _______. |
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| when a large amount of warm air meets a large amount of cold air, an area of unstable weather forms. this is called a _______. |
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| all of the plants and animals in an area together with the non living parts of their environment. |
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| refers to the condition of the atmosphere at a given place and time. |
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| area of land that receives little rain fall. |
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| when a layer of soil stays frozen all year. |
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| cold all year; very long, cold winters and very short, cool summers. |
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| the long-term process of losing soil fertility and plant life. |
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| a system of growing different crops on the same land over a period of years. |
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| regions that receive a small amount of rainfall. |
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| those that can be replaced by earths natural processes. |
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| protects living things from the ultraviolet rays of the sun. |
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| a slow increase in earth's average temperature. |
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| the removal of salt from salt water. |
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| artificial channels for carrying water. |
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| water bearing layers of rock, sand, or gravel. |
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| when air pollution mixes with the moister in the air and it falls to the ground. |
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| metallic and non metallic minerals. |
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| What are the two types of minerals? |
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| coal, petroleum, and natural gas. |
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| what are the two main fossil fuels? |
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| salt build up, erosion, and loss of farmland. |
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| what threatens soil fertility? |
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| What threatens the fresh water supply? |
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| The ozone layer is getting broken down which increases our chances of getting skin cancer. |
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| what are the effects of air pollution? |
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| states that boarder each other. |
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| It divides the flow of the north America's rivers. |
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| a large farm that grows mainly one crop to sell. |
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| the trees that cover an area where an original forest was. |
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| stretches from central ohio to central nebraska. |
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| it stretches across the dakotas montana nebraska oklahoma colorado and texas. |
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| major producers of milk cheese and other dairy products. |
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| To strip away rock and soil. |
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| a region surrounded higher land, usually mountain. |
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| a territory controlled by a foreign country. |
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| a group of cities that have grown together. |
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| producing a variety of crops instead of just one. |
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| producing a variety of crops instead of just one. |
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| the value of exports is lower than the value of imports. |
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renewable=water wind geothermal the sun and nuclear energy.
non renewable=coal petroleum and natural gas. |
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| what are the energy sources and are they renewable or non renewable? |
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| east to west or west to east. |
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| north to south or south to north. |
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| an imaginary line that circles the globe half way to the north and south hemisphere. |
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| an imaginary line that runs through green which england. |
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| there are two and they divide the world into 4 sections. |
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| cylindrical conic and flat plane. |
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| what are the 4 types of map projections? |
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