Chapter 2 Vocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| landform | shapes and types of land
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| mountain | landforms that rise more than 2000 feet above sea level
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| hill | raised landform, lower and less steep than mountains
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| plateau | large, elevated piece of flat land
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| plain | large areas of flat or gently rolling land
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| plate tectonics | theory of the movement of the continents
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| plate | huge pieces of the crust
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| weathering | process that breaks rocks down into tiny pieces
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| erosion | small pieces of rock are carried to new places
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| atmosphere | thick layer of special gases surrounding the Earth
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| natural resource | anything from Earth people use in meeting their needs
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| raw material | resources that must be changed in some way to make them useful
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| recyclable resource | resources that are recycled through the environment naturally
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| renewable resource | resources that can be replaced
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| nonrenewable resource | resources that cannot be replaced
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| fossil fuel | fuels created millions of years ago from the remains of prehistoric plants and animals
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| weather | day-to-day changes in the air
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| temperature | how hot or cold the air feels
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| precipitation | water that falls to the ground (rain, hail, sleet, snow)
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| climate | average weather of a place over many years
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| vegetation | plants that grow naturally in an area
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
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