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Vocabulary Words
Question | Answer |
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impressive | able to impress the mind, feelings, conscience |
naturalist | person who studies living things |
preserve | keep from harm or change; protect |
slopes | land that goes up or down at an angle |
species | set of related living things that share certain characteristics and that can interbreed |
wilderness | wild region with few or no people living in it |
glacier | great mass of ice that moves very slowly down a mountain or along a valey |
altitudes | heights above Earth's surface |
formations | things that are formed |
reservoir | place where water is collected and stored for use |
earthquake | shaking of Earth's surface caused by the sudden breaking of masses of rock along a fault |
eruptions | processes of throwing forth |
volcano | opening in Earth's crust through which steam, ashes, and lava are forced out in periods of activity |