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100
An imaginary line that divides one place from another
What is border?
100
All the streams and rivers that flow into a larger river
What is a river system?
100
A measure of how hot or cold the air is
What is temperature?
100
Lines that are always the same distance apart
What are parallel lines?
100
The surroundings in which people and plands live
What is environment?
200
The study of the Earth and all the different things in it
What is geography?
200
A smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river
What is a tributary?
200
The height of the land above the level of the sea
What is elevation?
200
Used to measure the distance on the Earth's surface
What are degrees?
200
Lines of longitude
What are meridians?
300
The shapes that make up the earth's surface
What are landforms?
300
Part of an ocean that reaches into the land
What is a bay?
300
The moisture that falls to the ground
What is precipitation?
300
Storms that occur along the Atlantic Coast
What are hurricanes?
300
Lines on a map of glove that measure distance east and west of the prime meridian?
What are lines of longitude?
400
A large area of nearly flat land
What is a plain?
400
A high, flat area of land that rises above the surrounding land
What is a plateau?
400
The pattern of weather over many years
What is climate?
400
The measure of how far north or south a place is from the equator
What is latitude?
400
The starting poing for measuring lines of longitude
What is the prime meridian?
500
Low patches of land between hills
What are valleys?
500
A long, narrow chain of mountains
What is a ridge?
500
The air at a certain time and place
What is weather?
500
A swirling funnel of wind
What is a tornado?
500
Crisscrossing latitude and longitude lines that cover the globe
What is a global grid?
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