Geographic Features
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| atmosphere | the air that surrounds the earth
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| hydrosphere | oceans, lakes, rivers and other bodies of water
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| lithosphere | the earth’s crust
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| biosphere | the part of the earth where life is found
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| fold | bends in the layers of rock like when moving plates squeeze the earth’s surface until it buckles.
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| fault | breaks in the earth’s crust when the folded land cannot be bent any further. This is how mountains are formed.
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| weathering | the process that breaks down rocks
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| erosion | the wearing away of the earth’s surface.
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| isthmus | a narrow piece of land that connects two land masses.
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| plateau | higher than the surrounding land and has at least one steep side called a cliff.
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| archipelago | a group of islands
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| continental shelf | narrow in some places and wide in others.
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| groundwater | water that lies beneath the earth’s surface and supplies wells and springs.
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| water cycle | the regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground to ocean.
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| evaporation | the changing of water into vapor or gas caused by the sun’s heat.
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| natural resource | Elements from the earth that are not made by people but can be used by them.
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| renewable resource | If people can replace them naturally or if people can grow or raise continuous supplies of them.
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| non renewable resource | resources that can never be replaced.
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| imports | resources or goods brought in from another country.
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| exports | resources or goods sent from one country to another
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