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28 Cards in this Set
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outside the normal
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anomalies
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tallest mountain? height?
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Mt. Everest, 29,035 ft
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deepest spot in ocean? depth?
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Mariana Trench, -35, 827 ft
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tallest mountain on North America? other name? other name was given by ______ ________. height? location?
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Mt. McKinley, Denali, Native Americans, 20,320 ft, Alaska
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deepest spot on Earth's land surface? depth? location? |
Dead Sea, -1349 ft, Israel
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live in extreme environments
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extremophiles
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shape of earth? what type of core? less than __ degree spherical
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ovoid, iron, 1
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water portion of earth land portion of earth earth is__% land earth has _____ miles of atmosphere where life can be found |
70 hydrosphere lithosphere 30 6000 biosphere |
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lithosphere means _____ or ______
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rock, stone
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atmosphere is ___% nitrogen ___% oxygen less than ___% minor gases |
78 21 1 |
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seven continents
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north America south America Europe asia Australia Antarctica africa |
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____ and _______ mountains separate Europe from Asia
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Ural, Caucasus
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only island continent shrinking continent, only ____ miles of ice thick |
asia Australia Antarctica, two |
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surrounds and protects earth layers of earth the iron core has a ______ field |
magnetosphere crust,mantle,core (inner, outer) magnetic |
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movements of heat within mantle |
convection cells
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_____ plate crashing into the ____ plate forms the Himalayan Mtns. |
Indian, Eurasian
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three agents of weathering
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wind, water, glaciation
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wind deposited soil, light small particles ex) of wind weathering |
loess Dust Bowl |
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ex) of water weathering another ex) - by what river |
Providence Canyon, Ga Grand Canyon Colorado River |
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form of erosion where snow falls, packs, more snow falls, packed into ice so on...
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glaciation
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discovered where? by who? |
Pennsylvanian Glacier Pennsylvania geologists |
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debris left after glacier recedes
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terminal moraine
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who said "there is no new water"
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EPA
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EPA= |
environmental protection agency
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northern river with 10 % of the worlds population
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Ganges River |
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Ganges River is located in _______ receive water from melting ____ headwaters? mouth? enters like a ____ |
Northern India glaciers Himalayan Glaciers, Bangladesh>Bay of Bengal delta |
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united nations report date? said? possibly _____ ______-caused |
8.27.14 global warming exists, irreversible human |
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river that floods every year? way of cultural geography that people in the area deal with the flooding |
Ganges River, plant rice afterwards, make houses that can be swept away |
