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19 Cards in this Set
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Polder
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a new piece of land reclaimed from the sea; in the Netherlands, land is created building dikes and draining water.
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Population density
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The average number of people living in an area.
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Peninsula
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Land area nearly surrounded by water.
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Plateau
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A large, raised area of mostly level land.
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Tributary
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A river or stream that flows into a larger river.
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Navigable
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Wide and deep enough for ships to travel through.
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Indentify Alps
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The major south-central European mountain system; the range includes Mont Blanc and the matterhorn.
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Indentify Europe
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the worlds second smallest continent; a peninsula of the Eurasian landmass bounded by the Artic Ocean the Atlantic ocean the Mediterranean Sea, and Asia.
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Eurasia
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the landmass that includes the european and asian continents.
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Ural mountains
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A mountain system in northern Eurasia forming part of the border between Europe and Asia.
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irkutsk
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a city in east-central Russia, on the central Siberian Plateau.
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barcelona
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a city and seaport in northeastern spain.
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Prairie
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an area of grasslands.
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permafrost
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soil that is permanently frozen.
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Steppe
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a mostly treeless plain; in Russia the steppes are grasslands of fertile soil suitable for farming.
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Rain shadow
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an area on the sheltered side of a mountain that receives little rainfall.
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taiga
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an enormous Russian forest covering more than three million acres.
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tundra
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a treeless plain in the acrtic areas with permanently frozen ground.
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