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How Water Shapes the Earth/ How Earthquakes Shape the Earth
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| flows | moves along slowly |
| disasters | events that cause great damage, loss, or suffering |
| ruin | destroy or spoil something |
| waterfall | moving water formed where a river flows quickly over a high ledge of hard rock |
| amount | a quantity or number of something |
| damage | harm |
| earthquake | a sudden shaking of the ground sometimes causing great destruction |
| tsunami | a long, high sea wave caused by an earthquake |
| aftershocks | small earthquakes that happen days or weeks after an earthquake |
| environmnent | the surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives |