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20 Cards in this Set
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How can people conserve aluminum?
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By recycling cans.
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How is elevation of mountain measured?
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By the number of feet above or below sea level.
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Describe the Continental Divide.
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The contintal divide to ridge atop the Rocky Mountains. All rivers east of this divide flow to the Alantic ocean. All rivers west of this divide flow into the pacific ocean.
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Why is the shape of landforms not permanent?
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Shapes of landforms are always changing. Rain,ice,and other force can cause roison of soil and rock.
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Why did the US Steel Corporation build in Gary, Indiana?
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The area was close to iron and coal resources as well as major river.
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Describe the climate of New Jersey.
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Cool to hot summers and cool to cold and wet winters
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Name some things that are considered precipitation.
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Rain,sleet,snow,ice
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How do oceans affect the cliamate of land?
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Areas near oceans are not as cold or as hot as areas far away from oceans.
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The Appalachian Mountains
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steeply raised mass of land;erosion has worn them down
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The Central Plains
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a large area of flat land
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the Sierra Nevada
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the youngest mountains in the country
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the great Basin
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a bowl shaped area of land surrounded by mountains
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Temperature
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the measure of hotness or coldness
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landform
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a physical feature of the earth's surface,such as a mountain
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fossil fules
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a resource that comes from living things that died millions of years ago; includes petroleum and coal
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climate
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the usual pattern of weather in a area of the world
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erosion
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the process by witch water,ice,and wind wear away soil and rock
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precipitation
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moisture that falls from clouds,including both rain and snow
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elevation
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the height of a landform above or below sea level
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Continental Divided
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A stretch of high land along the Rocky mountains that separates water that flows east from water that floes west
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