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Natural Environment   All living things and non-living things. Environment that has not been changed by people.  
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Climate   Climate is the pattern of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological variables in a given region over long periods.  
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Atmosphere   Gas surrounding the earth.  
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Natural Vegetation   Natural vegetation is the vegetation that would have been growing in any given area in the absence of man  
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Culture   the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.  
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Landform   a natural feature of the earth's surface.  
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Language Pattern   Language is the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a language is any specific example of such a system.  
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Infrastructure   the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.  
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Elevation   The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface  
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Ecosystem   An ecosystem is a community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment interacting as a system.  
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Weather   he state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc..  
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Biomes   Biomes are climatically and geographically defined as contiguous areas with similar climatic conditions on the Earth, such as communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms, and are often referred to as ecosystems.  
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Glaciers   re large masses of snow, recrystallized ice and rock debris that accumulate in great quantities and begin to flow outwards and downwards under the pressure of their own weight.  
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Groundwater   Groundwater is the water located beneath the earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations  
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Soil   It is the loose covering of fine rock particles that covers the surface of the earth. Soil is the end product of the influence of the climate, relief, organisms, parent materials and time.  
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Hydrosphere   All water on earth.  
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Lithosphere   The solid part of earth.  
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Biosphere   Living organisms exist in this part of the atmosphere. Makes up all living organisms on earth.  
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