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40 Cards in this Set
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Erosion
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The movement of sediments
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Sediment
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The stuff broken down by weathering and moved by weathering
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Mass Movement
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The erosion of a bunch of stuff at once. A good example is a rockfall.
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Erosional landforms
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Landforms caused by erosion
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Meander
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A landform caused bu a bend in the river
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Ground water
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Water that soaks into the soil from precipitation.
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Energy
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The force to do anything.
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Potential energy
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The amount of energy that somthing has
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Flood Plain
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The area that is flat and gets flooded by a river if the flow is too high.
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Oxbow Lake
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A lake made by a Meander.
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Differentail Weathering
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The differnt's speed's of Weathering
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Waterfall
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Water falling because of differential weathering
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Radiometric Waves
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The form that radiatoion travesc.
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Renewable Energy Source
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Energy source that will replace itself after you use it.
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Radioactive
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An atom that will randomly shoot out a neutron, changing the atom.
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Radio active
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somthing that will kick out a neutron
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Unrenewable energy source
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A source that won't replace itself or dosen't get replaced at all.
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Half Life
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how long half radioactive material will lose a neutron
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Glaicer
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A sheet of ice that is year round coverd in ice. More snow has to fall then melt, so it is only found in High Altitude and near the poles.
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Iceberg
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A part of the Glaicer that broke off and is in the Ocean
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KT boundary
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the 2nd mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs
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Great Dying
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The 1st mass extintion where 90% of all living things died.
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Water Cycle
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The movment of water through evaporation, Condesation,and precipitation
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Mold
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teddy bear
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Evaporation
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Water that turns into gas.
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Humitity
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How much water vapor in the Air
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Greenhouse Gases
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The gases thatdirect heat infared raditotion to Earth
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Methane
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A greenhousegas. It comes from farts and burps. A main contributar is cows and my Uncle John
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Squirrel
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rabbit
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roadkill
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Pollutant
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Somthing that shouldn't be there or has to much.
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Ozone
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a oxogen atom with 3 atoms in it. blocks all of the extremly harmfu harmful UV-A, most of the harmful UV-B
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CFC
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A chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) is an organic compound that contains only carbon, chlorine, hydrogen and fluorine and destroys ozone
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Condensation
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Water Vapor changing into droplets of Ice and water to make clouds
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Precipitation
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The water that condensed falling to Earth
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Types of precipitation
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Hail,Sleet,Rain,Snow,And Freezing Rain
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Hail
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Hail form in Tstorms because the updrafts and downdrafts carry them.
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Rain
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The most common precpitation, it is liquid water that fell from clouds
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Sleet
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precipitatiuon that was water, not yo momma, but froze before it hit the ground
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Snow
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precipitation that was frozen the whole time falling
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Freezing rain
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water that froze when it touch a sufce on the ground
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