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14 Cards in this Set
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a high point or ridge that determines the direction in which river flows
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divide
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source
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headwaters
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smaller rivers and streams
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tributary
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a boundary that marks the place where the higher land of the piedmont drops to the lower atlantic coastal plain.
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fall line
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formed in the earth from the buried plant and animal remains of a previous geologic time hundreds of millions of years ago.
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fossil fuel
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place for catching fish and other sea animals
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fishery
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fish farming
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aquaculture
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ocean storms hundreds ofmiles wide with winds of 74mph (119 km per hour) or more
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hurricane
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meditterranean scrub vegitation
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chaparral
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naturally treeless expanses of grasses, spread across the great plains of the continents midsections.
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prairie
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violent spring and summer thunderstorms
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supercells
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the elevation above which trees cannot grow.
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timberline
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a warm, dry wind.
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chinook
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heavy or blowing snow and visibility of less than 1,320 feet for three hours or more,
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blizzard
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