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Hayden: Landforms

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Magma   Liquid rock in the Earth  
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Deforestation   Act of cutting down trees  
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Plate Tectonics   Theory that Earth's crust is divided into rigid plates moving across the mantle  
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Continental Drift   Process by which Earth's plates slowly move across the mantle  
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Evaporation   Process by which the suns heat turns a liquid into a gas  
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Condensation   Process by which air cools and gas turns into a liquid forming clouds  
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Watershed   An entire region drained by a river and its tributaries  
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Drainage Basin   A region drained by a river and its tributaries  
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Ore   Mineral-bearing rocks  
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Desalinazation   Process by which salt is removed from seawater  
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Weathering   Process by which rocks break and decay over time  
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Erosion   Movement of surface material from one place to another by means of water, wind and ice  
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Fault   Places where rock masses have been broken apart and are moving away from each other  
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Estuaries   An area where a river meets and ocean or sea and saltwater mixes with freshwater  
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Water Table   The groundwater level at which all the cracks spaces in rock are filled with water  
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Landform   A geographic feature created by plate tectonics, weathering and erosion  
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Precipitation   clouds become heavy and gravity pulls the Water to the ground and returns it to the lakes, rivers and water table  
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Convergent Fault   Plates collide and can create mountains or a subduction zone  
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Divergent Fault   Plates spread apart and create trenches and volcanoes  
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Strike-Slip Fault   Plates rub together and create earthquakes  
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Rift Valley   Places on the earth's surface where the crust stretches until it cracks  
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Abyssal Plains   Area of the ocean floor where rocks sink because they have no heat below to support them  
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Continental Shelves   Areas where continental surfaces extend under the shallow waters around the continents  
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Sediment   Small particles of weathered rock  
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Headwaters   first and smallest streams formed from the run off of mountains forming rivers  
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Tributaries   any smaller river that flows into a larger one  
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Groundwater   Water found below the surface  
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Humus   Broken down plant and animal matter in soil  
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Leaching   Downward movement of minerals and humus in soils  
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Soil Exhaustion   Condition where soil has lost its nutrients and is nearly useless for growing crops  
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Irrigation   Process where water is artificially supplied to the land  
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Aquifer   Rock layers where groundwater is plentiful  
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Fossil Fuels   Energy resources made from the remains of ancient plants and animals  
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