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Most communities treat blank befire returning it to the surface

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Sewage

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Blank is stored in souk and rock beneath earths surface

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Aquifer

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Sometimes called the river of grass blank is a vast wetland

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Florida Everglades

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What wetlands would have large numbers of cattail a and other grasslike plants

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Marsh

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Where would mangrove trees most likely be found growing

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Coastal wetlands

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Why are convection currents in the mantle responsible for re shaping earths surface

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Moving plates seperate and crash

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What causes earthquakes

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Mantle convection between two transform boundaries

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What causes volcanoes

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Subduction plates cause partial melting forming lava that later melts forming volcanoes at convergent boundaries

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How are basin forms

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Convergent

When two plates continually move apart

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