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What is a landform?
Every variation in the landscape.
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What is a tributary?
A river that feeds another river.
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What is a harbor?
A sheltered body of deep water near the shore.
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What is the slant of sunlight and the tilt of the earth?
The reason we have seasons.
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What is a mountain system?
When many mountains are together.
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What is a plain?
Wide area of level land
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What is the Nile River?
The longest river in the world.
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What is a wetland?
An area of stagnant water.
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What is weather?
The atmospheric conditions of an area at any given moment.
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What is Plate Tectonics?
The theory that says that the earth’s surface is broken into masses of land that crash into and pull apart from each other releasing energy that causes volcanic activity and earthquakes
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What is a plateau?
Wide areas of flat land that rise abruptly above the surrounding land.
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What is the Amazon River?
The river with the most amount of water in the world.
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What is a sea?
Arms of the ocean partially enclosed by land.
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What is climate?
The weather conditions of an area over a long period time.
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What is uniformitarianism?
The idea that the forces that shaped the earth as we now see it operated at the same rate at which they do today.
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What is the Continental Drift Theory?
The theory that says a huge landmass called Pangea eventually broke apart to form the continents as we see them today.
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What is discharge?
The amount of water that flows from a river.
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What are bogs, marshes and swamps?
The three types of wetlands.
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What is arid?
"Lacking moisture", it is the term used to refer to dry areas that receive 10 or less inches of rain.
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What are seasons, winds, and ocean currents?
the three ways God has provided to distribute the earth’s thermal energy?
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What is faulting, folding and volcanic activity?
The three ways mountains are formed.
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What is a river system?
A river and all its tributaries.
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What is the Caspian Sea?
The largest lake in the world.
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What is permafrost?
The soil that is permanently frozen in the polar or frigid zones.
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What is alluvium?
Nutrient-rich soil deposited by rivers.
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