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25 Cards in this Set
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What are the five oceans?
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Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern.
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What are the seven continents?
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Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica.
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How many continents made up pangea?
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All seven.
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What's a mountain?
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An elevated area of land higher than a hill, with sloping sides.
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What's a plateau?
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A fairly flat area above surrounding land.
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What's a valley?
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An area of land lower in elevation that its surroundings.
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What's a canyon?
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A valley with very steep walls.
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What's a plain?
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A large, flat area of land, usually without trees.
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What's a peninsula?
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It's surrounded by water on three sides.
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What's a bay?
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A body of ocean water mostly surrounded by land and smaller than a sea or ocean.
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What's a strait?
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A narrow passage of ocean water joining two larger bodies of water.
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What's an island?
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Land completely surrounded by water.
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What's a lagoon?
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A shallow body of salt water mostly or completely surrounded by land.
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What's an archipelago?
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A chain of islands.
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Name the six biomes.
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Rain forest, grassland, desert, tundra, coniferous forest, deciduous forest.
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Name the seven continents.
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Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Africa.
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What continent is splitting down the middle?
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Africa.
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What does a topographic map show?
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Elevation, steepness.
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What's a hachure?
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Short lines drawn inside a closed loop to indicate a depression or crater. They point downslope.
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Elevation is measured at ______ _____.
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Sea level.
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What's an index contour line?
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The heaviest contour line, each labeled with an elevation.
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What's a contour interval line?
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The amount of elevation between contour lines. It's used to figure the elevations of unlabeled contour lines.
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What's a closed loop?
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Contour lines that almost never cross.
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Diagram the earth.
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What's the purpose of longitude and latitude lines?
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To separate time zones.
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