Geography Chapter 2 Vocabulary

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Hydrosphere

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Oceans, lakes, rivers and other bodies of water.

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Lithosphere

Back 2

The Earth's Crust.

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Atmosphere

Back 3

A layer of gases extending above the planets surface.

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Biosphere

Back 4

Part of the Earth that supports life.

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Continental Shelf

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Underwater extension of Coastal Plain

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Isthmus of Panama

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A narrow strip of land.

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Sinai Peninsula

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The human made Suez canal that separates Afroca and Asia.

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Mount Everest

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The highest point on Earth

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Mariana Trench

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A narrow, underwater canyon

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Dead Sea

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Lowest Dry land point on Earth.

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Core

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Super hot but solid center of the Earth.

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Mantle

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Next to the outer core - a thick layer of hot dense rock.

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Crust

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Outer Layer

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Continental Drift

Back 14

Theory of Continents once being Joined.

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Plate Tectonics

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Refers to all physical processes that create many of Earth's physical features.

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Magna

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A molten Rock

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Subduction

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The heavier sea plates dives beneath the lighter sea plate.

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Accreation Spreading

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Pieces of earh's crust come together slowly as the sea plate slides under the continental plate.

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Fold

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Bends

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Fault

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Cracks in Earth's Crust

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Faulting

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Occurs when the folded land cannot bend any further

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Weathering

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Breaks down rocks

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Erosion

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Wears away the Earth's Surface

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Glacier

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Large bodies of ice that move across Earth's surface.

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Moraine

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Large piles of rocks and debris.

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Himalaya

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Mounted ranges in South Asia.

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San Andreas Fault

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One famous fault in California.

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Ring of Fire

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One of the most earthquake prone areas on the planet.

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Greenland/Antartica

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Covered in sheets of Glacier

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Water Cycle

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The name given to the regular movement of water.

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Evaporation

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The changing of liquid water into vapor, or gas.

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Condensation

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Excess water vapor changing into liquid water.

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Precipitation

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Rain, snow, or sleet.

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Desalination

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Process of turning water into fresh water.

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Groundwater

Back 35

freshwater that lies beneath the Earth's Surface.

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Aquifer

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An underground porous rock layer often saturated by very slow flows of water.

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Mediterranean

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Almost entirely encircled by Southern Europe.

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Gulf of Mexico

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Nearly encircled by the coasts of the United States and Mexico.