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History Vocab. #1
History Vocab. Test: definitions from "Inconvenient Truth"
| Deforestation | The process of clearing forest |
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| Erosion | The process of wearing away by the action of wind, water, or glacial ice. |
| Volcanoes | When Magna wells up and erupts on the earths surface. |
| Earthquakes | When two tectonic plates meet, split, or slip by one another. |
| Wind and Water Currents | The patterns that the wind and water travels as they cirlcle the earth |
| Plate Tectonics | The movement of the continental drift |
| Weathering | A object that weakens over a period of time caused by weather |
| Global Warming | When carbon dioxcide and other gases warms the surface of the earth naturally by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere |
| Urbanization | The momement of people from rural areas to cities, causing the cities to get larger. |