Geography Chapter 5

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Interact

Back 1

To act on each other

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Permafrost

Back 2

A permanently layer beneath the surface of the earth

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Insulators

Back 3

A material that does not allow heat of electricity to travel through it easily.

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Mid-Atlantic ridge

Back 4

An underwater mountain range

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Geothermal springs

Back 5

Spring water heated from inside the earth

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Wetlands

Back 6

Are of land that has much moisture

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River delta

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A triangular shape of mud at the mouth of a river

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Lagoon

Back 8

A shallow channel or park near or connecting to a large body of water

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Swamps

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Wet spongy land often covered with water

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Bogs

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An area of wet spongy land

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Marsh

Back 11

An area of wet spongy land covered with vegetation

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Sea level

Back 12

The high of the surface of the sea in between high and low tide

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Monsoon

Back 13

A very strong wind that blows across the Indian ocean and southern Asia

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Cyclone

Back 14

A huge storm with very strong destructive winds that blow around a quiet center

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Hurricane

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A huge storm with very strong destructive winds that blow around a quiet center

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Typhoon

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Same as a hurricane or cyclone but occurs in the China sea

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Tornado

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A destructive column of rotating air

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Blizzard

Back 18

A long heavy snowstorm with high winds and cold temperatures

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Ic storm

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A storm producing large amounts of ice from freezing rain

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Drought

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A very long period of dry weather

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Landslide

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A sudden slide of earth or rocks down the side of a hill or mountain

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Avalanche

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A large amount of snow travelling down a mountain at high speed

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Sandstorm

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A very windy storm, usually in the desert, that contains large amounts of sand

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Tsunami

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A great sea wave produced by an earthquake, volcanic eruption or landslide

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Toxic

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Poisonous

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Hot spot

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A spot on the Earth's crust that allows magma to rise up and form a volcano, like Hawaii

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Sulphur

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A yellow chemical element used in gunpowder or fertilizer

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Nitrogen

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An element that is found in 78 percent of the atmosphere as a gas

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Water vapor

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A gas produced when water evaporates

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Neutralize

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To stop something from working

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Ozone layer

Back 31

The layer of atmosphere in the stratosphere containing ozone

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Acid rain

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Rain containing large amounts of sulpher and other elements that make it acidic

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Smog

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A mixture of fog and smoke that hangs in the air over cities

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CFC

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Chlorflourocarbons. They damage the ozone layer

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Point source

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A single thing you can point to that causes pollution like a smokestack

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Scrubber

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A device used to clean pollution from a point source

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Non-point

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Pollution that comes from many locations like all the cars in the world

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Emmision control system

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A device place in a car engine to reduce the pollution coming out of it

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Coastal zone

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The regions that exist where the land meats the ocean

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Chemical soup

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A mixture of many chemicals in a solution

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Fertilizer

Back 41

A substance used to put nutrients into soil

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Herbicide

Back 42

A poison that kills vegetation

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Pesticide

Back 43

A poison that kills insects

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Groundwater

Back 44

All the water beneath the surface of the Earth