6th SMS S.S. "The Earth's Physical Geography"
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| show | the path followed by an object in space as it moves around another
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| revolution | show 🗑
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| show | imaginary line around which a planet turns. Earth turns around its axis which runs between its north and south poles.
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| rotation | show 🗑
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| show | region between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn
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| show | regions between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole and the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
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| show | regions between the TROPIC OF CANCER AND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE AND THE TROPIC OF Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle
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| show | 23.5 degrees North, part ofEarth that receives the most direct light and heat energy from the Sun. This region is on both sides of the Equator.
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| show | The southern boundary of the tropics. 23.5 degrees South
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| Arctic Circle | show 🗑
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| Antarctic Circle | show 🗑
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| landform | show 🗑
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| mountain | show 🗑
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| show | lower and less steep than mountains with rouded tops
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| show | large, mostly flat area that rises above the surrounding land
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| plain | show 🗑
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| show | theory that the earth's crust is broken into huge, slowly slabs of rock called plates
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| show | a huge section of the Earth's crust which continents rest on (fit together like a puzzle, they were once called Pangea)
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| show | the breaking down of rocks by wind, rain or ice
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| show | process by which water, wind or ice wears way landforms and carries the material to another place
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| show | layer of gasses surrounding the earth
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| Ring of Fire | show 🗑
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| Pangea | show 🗑
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| show | condition of the bottom layer of Earth's atmosphere in one place over a short period of time
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| show | degree of hotness or coldness ; such as air or water that is measured with a thermometer
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| precipitation | show 🗑
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| climate | show 🗑
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| Gulf Stream | show 🗑
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| show | cold water current in southest Pacific ocean that flows between 40 degrees south and 4 degrees south
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| show | southward flowing ocean current along West Coast of N. America (48 - 23 degress north)
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| St. Louis | show 🗑
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| Great Plains | show 🗑
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| vegetation | show 🗑
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| show | FIVE
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| barren, usually frozen land found in the Artic Circle, with a Polar Climate that does not support the growth of trees due to the short, cold summers and long, even colder winters | show 🗑
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| show | low grasses and shrubs, mosses and lichens and a few flowering plants
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| show | CANOPY
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| Place where the climate changes are related to the elevation on a mountain (example Mt. Everest) | show 🗑
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