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| What is a Bay? | A bay is part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf.
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| What is a channel? | A channel is wide strait or waterway between two landmasses that lie closs to each other; deep part of a river or other waterway.
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| What is climate? | Climate is Usual,predictable pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time.
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| What is a current? | A current is moving streams of water in the world's oceans, which affect the climate of land areas.
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| What is a drought? | A drought is a long period of extreme dryness and water shortages.
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| What is elevation? | Elevation is hieght above sea level.
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| What is El Niño? | El niño is a combination of temperature, wind, and water effects in the Paccific Ocean that causes heavy rains in some areas and drought in others.
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| What is a gulf? | A gulf is a part of water that extends into a shoreline, larger and more deeply intended than a bay.
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| What is a harbor? | A harbor is a sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely.
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| What is a hurricane? | A hurricanne is a violent tropical storm with high winds and heavy rains.
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| What is high-latitude climate? | High-latitude climates are regions that lie mostly in the high latitudes of each hemisphere, from 60 degrees N to the North Pole and 60 degrees S to the South Pole.
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| What is an island? | An island is a body of land smaller than a continent and surrounded by water.
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| What is a landform? | A landform is individual features of the land.
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| What is La Niña? | La niña is a pattern of unusual weather in the Pacific Ocean that has opposite effects of El Niño.
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| What is a lake? | A lake is a sizable inland body of water.
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| What is a Mountain? | A mountain is land with steep sides that rises sharply (1,000 feet or more)from surrounding land;generally larger and more rugged than a hill.
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| What is highland climate? | Highland climate is cool or cold climate that varies with elevation (like high up in the mountains).
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| What is tropical climate? | Tropical climate is warm year round extends from the equator to the Tropic of Cancer (23 1/2 degrees north) and from the equator to the Tropic of Capricorn (23 1/2 degrees south).
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| What is mid-latitude climate? | Mid-climate is temperature climate (think seasons) extend from 23 1/2 degrees notrh to 60 degrees north and from 23 1/2 south to 60 degrees south.
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| What is prevailing wind? | Prevailing wind are movements of air that travel around the earth in typical pattern.
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| What is mountain range? | A mountain range is a series of connected mountains.
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| What is a monsoon? | A monsoon is seasonal wind that blows over a continent for months at a time.
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| What is an ocean? | An ocean is one of the four major bodies of salt water that surround the continents.
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| What is a platau? | A plateau is an area of flat or rolling land at a high elevation, about 300- 3,000 feet high.
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| what is a peninsula? | A peninsula is a body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides of water.
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| What is a plain? | A plain is an area of level land, usually at low elevation and often covered with grasses.
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| What is a physical feature? | A physical feature is a characteristic of a place occuring naturally, such as landform , body of water, climate pattern, or resource.
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| What is a river? | A river is a large natural stream of water that runs through land.
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| What is a sea? | A sea is a large body of water patially or completely surrounded by land.
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| What is a strait? | A strait is a narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water.
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| What is a volcano? | A volcano is a mountain created as liquid rock and ash erupt from inside the earth.
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| What is a valley? | A valley is an area of lowland between hills and mountains.
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| What is dry climate? | Dry climate is dry areas with little to no rain; temperature can range from very cold to very hot.
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| What is a typhoon? | A typhoon is a name for a hurricane in Asia.
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| What are tropics? | Tropics are low latitude regions between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capircorn.
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| What is a tornado? | A tornado is a funnel-shapped windstorm;sometimes forms during thunderstorm.
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