Chapter 1 & 2 Landforms/Climate Vocabulary Terms
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| show | What is a bay?
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| Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses on the earth | show 🗑
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| Unusual predictable pattern of weather over a long period of time. | show 🗑
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| show | What is a current?
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| Long periods of extreme dryness and water shortage | show 🗑
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| Height of land above sea level | show 🗑
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| show | What is a landform?
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| show | What is a gulf?
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| show | What is high latitude climate?
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| temperate climate (think seasons)extend from 23.5 degrees north to 60 degrees north | show 🗑
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| show | What is tropical climate?
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| cool or cold climate that varies with elevation(like high up in the mountains) | show 🗑
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| show | What is El Nino?
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| Eastern winds become strong and the opposite of El Nino occurs: Pacific Ocean gets cooler. | show 🗑
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| movements of air that travel around the earth in a typical pattern. | show 🗑
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| show | What is a harbor?
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| Violent tropical storm with high winds and heavy rainfall | show 🗑
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| show | What is an island?
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| show | What is dry climate?
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| show | What is a lake?
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| land with steep sides that rises sharply (1000 feet or more) from surrounding land; generally larger and more rugged than a hill | show 🗑
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| A series of connected mountains | show 🗑
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| show | What is a typhoon?
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| A funnel shaped wind storm; may form during a thunderstorm | show 🗑
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| show | What are the tropics?
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| show | What is a monsoon?
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| show | What is weather?
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| show | What is a peninsula?
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| show | What is a plateau?
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| characteristics of a place, naturally occuring like landforms, climate, resources. | show 🗑
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| large natural strean of water that runs through land | show 🗑
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| Large body of water partially or comppletely surrounded by land | show 🗑
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| show | What is a strait?
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| 1 of the 4 mahor bodies of salt water that surround the continents | show 🗑
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| mountain created as liquid rock and ash erupt from the inside of the earth | show 🗑
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| show | What is a valley?
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