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21 Cards in this Set
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Landform
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shapes that make up the surface of the earth (such as mountains, hills, plains)
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Plain
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a large area of nearly flat land
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Geography
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The study of earth; it includes the way people, plants, and animals live on and use the land
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Border
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a line that people agree on that divides one place from another
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Plateau
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a large area that rises steeply above the surrounding land; sometimes it is flat but sometime it is hilly
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Valley
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low land between hills or mountains (usually has a river flowing through it)
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Ice Age
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a period of very cold weather (The most recent Ice Age probably ended about 10,000 years ago)
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Glacier
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a thick sheet of ice
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Moraine
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a line of low hills formed by the rocks pushed at the front of a glacier; they mark where the glacier stopped
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Till
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soil and rocks a glacier picked up hundreds of miles away, good for farmland
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Drumlin
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smoothly rounded hills that look like an egg sliced in half along its length, formed by melting glacier
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Transportation
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routes that people have used for thousands of years to move goods or people from one place to another
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Source
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beginning
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Tributary
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small rivers and streams that flow into a river
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Mouth
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a place where a river empties into a larger body of water
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Coast
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the land next to an ocean or a larger lake
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Bay
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part of an ocean or lake that cuts deeply into the coast of shore
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Harbor
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a sheltered place where ships can dock
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Climate
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the pattern of weather in a certain place over many years
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Weather
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the condition of the air at a certain time in a certain place, including temperature, precipitation, and wind
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Three factors that affect the climate of our state
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Elevation (height above sea level) the higher a place is the colder the climate
Distance from the Equator - the farther away you are, the colder the climate Distance from large bodies of water - coastal areas stay cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter |
