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Unit1vocab

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Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline   Bay  
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Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to each other   Channel  
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The usual predictable pattern or weather in an area over long perio of time   Climate  
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Carry warm or cool water through the worlds oceans   Current  
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A long period of extreme dryness   Brought  
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Hight of land above sea level   Elevation  
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Cobination of teamperature,wind,and water effects in the Pacific Ocean   El Nino  
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part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline   gulf  
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A shelter place along a choreline where ships can snchor safely   harbor  
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Violent tropical storm systems, form over the warm Atlantic Ocean in late summer and fall   Hurricane  
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Cold climate lies from 60 degrees North to the North Pole and form 60 degrees South   High-latitude  
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Land area, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water   island  
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Indivitiual features of the land   landforms  
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Eastern winds become strong and the opposite of el nino occurs-Pasific Ocean gets cooler   La Nina  
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a sizeable inland body of water   lake  
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Land with steep sides that rises sharply (1000 feet or more) from surrounding land   Mountain  
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a series of connected mountaines   Mountain range  
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Seasonal wind that blows over a continent for a long period of time   Monsoon  
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Temperate climate extend from 231/2 degrees north top 60 degrees north and from south to 60 degrees south   Mid-latitude climate  
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one of the four major bodies of salt water that surround the continents   ocean  
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flat or rolling land at high elevation usually 300-30000 ft high   plateau  
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body of land jutting out into a lake or an ocean surrounded on three sides by water   Peninsula  
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area of low land at low elevation; covered with grass   Plains  
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characteristics of a place-naturally occurring like landforms, climate, recourses   Physical feature  
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movements of air that travel around the earth in a typcial pettern   Prevailing wind  
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warm year round extends from the equator to the tropic of cancer and from the equator to the tropic oficorn capr   Tropical climate  
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Cool or cold climate that varies the elevation   Higland Cimate  
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Dry to partially dry areas with little to no rain; teamperatures can range from very cold to very hot   Dry climate  
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name for a hurricane in asia   Typhoon  
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funnel-shaped windstorm; sometimes forms during a thunderstorm   Tornado  
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low atitude region between the tropics of cancer and the tropic of capricorn   Tropics  
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unpredictable changes in the air that take place in a short period of time   Weather  
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large natural stream of water that runs through land   River  
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Large body of water partially or completedly surrounded by land   Sea  
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narrow stretch of water joining two large bodies of water   Strait  
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area of lowland between hills and mountains   Valley  
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