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20 Cards in this Set
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High Level surfaces on the face of the earth
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Plateaus
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North America's oldest mountains
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Appalachian
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Western U.S- natural elevations
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mesas
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Region of low rolling hills and the atlantic coastal plain leads to the atlantic ocean
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Piedmont
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A line that seperated rivers that flow toware opposite ends of a continent
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continental divide
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Water source of a river
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Headwater
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A brooke,. river or stream that feeds into a river
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tributary
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Largest river in the us and canada
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mississippi river
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Two canadian lakes that were formed as a rresult of the ice age
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Great bear lake and Great slave Lake
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Canadas freshwater fishing industry is centered in the area of the
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Great Lakes
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a tropical rainforest climate found 2400 miles away from the us mainland ib on the island of_____
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Hawaii
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The lowest point in the U.S
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Death Valley
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Winds, ocean currents, and mountain on the pacific coast create this
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Marine Cloast Climate
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Higher parts of the rocky mountains and pacific ranges have_______climate
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highland
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Snowstorms with winds 35 mph or higher
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Blizzard
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A tornado with a swirling column of air up to 300 mph
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Tornado
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Warm winds blowing down the slopes of the rockies in winter and early spring
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chinook
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Pacific hurricanes that threaten hawaii every year
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Typhoon
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Elevatio above which trees cannot grow
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timberline
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The great plains of the us used to be a treeless expanse of grasses or
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A Prairie region
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