DMS - Landforms Vocabulary
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| mantle | middle layer of the earth made up of thick hot rock
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| magma | melted rock; lava
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| continents | large land areas
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| plate tectonics | Theory in geology that the earth's crust is made up of huge, moving plates of rock
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| fault | cracks in the earth's crust
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| earthquake | violent shaking of the earth
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| tsunamis | huge waves caused by an earthquakes on the ocean floor
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| weathering | rocks are broken down into smaller pieces by water, chemicals, or frost
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| erosion | weathering away the earth's surface by water, wind, and ice
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| plateau | flat landform whose surface is raised abvoe the surrounding land, with a steep cliff on one side
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| isthmus | a narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land
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| peninsula | a piece of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides
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| strait | a narrow body of water between two pieces of land
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| atmosphere | air surrounding the Earth
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| core | center later of the earth, made of hot iron and nickel
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| crust | outer layer of the earth
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| landforms | a kind of land, such as a plain, hill, mountain, valley, peninsula, river, lake, or island
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| island | a body of land smaller than a continent and surrounded by water
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| Arctic | North of Europe
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| Mediterraenean | South of Europe
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| Atlantic | West of Europe
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| Divides No & So Europe | Pyrennes, Alps, Carpathians, Balkins
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