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Geography Flashcards

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The study of earth and how people live in it and use it.

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Geography

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A high land form with a step sides higher then a hill

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Mountain

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A stream of water that flows across the land and empites

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River

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an area with common features that set it apart ​from other areas

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Region

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all the surroundings of a place including water, plants and animals

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Environment

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the natural plant life of an area

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Vegetation

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A dry environment with few plants and animals

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Desert

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a feature of earth’s surface, mountain, plains, plateaus

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Landform

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A large area of nearby flat land

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Plain

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an area of elevated land

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peninsula

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A large body of salt water oceans cover much of Earth’s surface.

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ocean

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An area of elevated flat land.

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plateau

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A fertile area in a desert that is watered by a spring.

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oasis

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A body of land completely surrounded by water.

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island

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An area of low land between hills or mountains

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valley

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The weather pattern an area has over a long period of time

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Climate

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Runs west and east and measures the distance north and south if the equator

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Latitude

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Height above sea level

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Altitude

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Rivers running through the oceans

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Ocean Currents

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Show land divided into different countries or areas. They can also show political borders, capital cities and important cities

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Political Map

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Shows the natural features of the erarth

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Physical Map

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living and non-living things made by nature that are useful and helpful to humans

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Natural resourcees

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a natural resource that can ​renew, rebuild or replace itself given enough time.

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Renewable resource

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a natural resource that cannot renew, rebuild or replace itself.

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Non Renewable resource

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The way of life of a group of people

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Culture

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All the accomplishments learning, achievements and inventions of one culture that passed down from generation to generation

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legacy

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