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Chapter 4 Vocabulary

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show Earth's center, where pressures and temperatures are very high.  
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Mantle   show
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show Liquid rock within Earth.  
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Plate Tectonics   show
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Continental Drift   show
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Rift Valleys   show
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Abyssal Plains   show
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show Areas where continental surfaces extend under the shallow ocean water around the continents.  
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Trench   show
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Folds   show
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show Places where rock masses have been broken apart and are moving away from each other.  
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show The process by which rocks break and decay over time.  
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show Small particles of weathered rock.  
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show Movement of surface material from one location to another by water, wind, and ice.  
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show Thick masses of ice including great ice sheets and bodies of ice that flow down mountains like slow rivers.  
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show An elevated flatland that rises sharply above nearby land on at least on one side.  
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show Fan-shaped deposit of mud and gravel often found along the bases of mountains.  
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show Accumulation of sediment at the mouth of a river.  
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Desalinization   show
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show Movement of water through the hydrosphere.  
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show First and smallest streams formed from the runoff of a mountain eventually forming rivers.  
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Tributary   show
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show The entire region drained by a river and its tributaries.  
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Estuaries   show
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Wetlands   show
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Groundwater   show
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show The groundwater level at which all the cracks and spaces in rock are filled with water.  
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Humus   show
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show Downward movement of minerals and humus in soils.  
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Contour Plowing   show
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show A condition in which soil has lost nutrients and becomes nearly useless for farming.  
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Crop Rotation   show
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Irrigation   show
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Soil Salinization   show
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Deforestation   show
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Reforestation   show
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