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22 Cards in this Set
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Geograpy
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Study of the earth in all its variety land, water , plants, and animals
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Landform
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individual feature of the land, such as a mountain or valley
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Region
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area that shares common characterisitcs
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Global Positioning system
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Group of satalites that travels around the earth; which can be used to pin point an exact location
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Geographic Information Systems
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Special software that helps geographers gather and use different kinds of information about a place
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Plate Tectonics
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theory that the earth's crust is not an unbroken shell but consists of plates or huge slabs of rock that move
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Fault
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crack in the earth's crust
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Plain
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low-lying stretch of flat or gently rolling land
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environment
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natural surroundings
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plateau
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flat land with higher elevation than a plain
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canyon
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deep narrow valley with steep sides which a river has cut through a plateau
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aquifer
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underground rock layer that stores large amounts of water
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climate
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usual predictabel patter of weather in an area over a long period of time
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tropics
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low-latitudes region between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn
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greehouse effect
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buildup of certain gasses in the atmosphere that like a greenhouse prevent the warm air from escaping into the atmoshere, resulting in increase of the earths temperature
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conservation
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careful use of resourses so they are not wasted
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pesticide
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powerful chemical that kills crop destroying insects
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ecosystem
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place where the plants and animals are dependent upon one another and their surroundings for survival
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crop rotation
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varing what is planted in a field to avoid using up all the minerals in the soil
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erosion
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process of moving water and wind across the earth's surface, leaving land less furtile than before
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deforestation
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widespread cutting of forests
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acid rain
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rain containing high amounts of chemical pollutants
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