Geography vocab
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| An area of the earth's surface definite shape; mountains and hills are examples of landforms. | Landform
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| Usually a landform that rises more than 2000ft above sea level and is wide at the bottom and narrow at the peak. | Mountain
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| A landform that rises above the surrounding land and that has a rounded top; a hill is lower and usually less steep than mountains. | Hill
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| A large mostly flat area that rises above the surrounding land; at least one side has a steep slope. | Plateau
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| The theory that the earth's crust is made of huge, slowly moving slabs of rock called plates. | Plate Tectonics
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| In geography a huge section of earth's crust. | Plate
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| The breaking down of rocks by wind,rain, or ice. | Weathering
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| A process by which water; wind or ice wears away landforms and carries the material to another place. | Erosion
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| The multi-layered band of gases that surround the Earth. | Atmosphere
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| The path followed by an object in space as it moves around the sun. | Orbit
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| One complete orbit of earth around the sun. The earth completes one revolution every 365 1/4th days, or one year. | Revolution
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| An imaginary line around which a planet turns around. Earth turns around its axis which runs between its North and South Poles. | Axis
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| The spinning motion of earth like a top on its axis. Earth takes about 24 hours to rotate one time. | Rotation
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| The region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. | Low Latitude
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| The regions between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle. | Middle Latitude
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| The regions between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole and the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole. | High Latitude
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