TCI Geography Alive! Chapter 13 Vocabulary

Question 1

Moderate or mild, without extremes of hot or cold

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Temperate

Question 2

Glacier is a mass of ice near Earth poles.

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True

Question 3

Pattern of weather over a long period of time

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Climate

Question 4

The layer of air that surrounds Earth

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atmosphere

Question 5

a type of brick that is made of clay mixed with straw and dried in the sun

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adobe

Question 6

Lake that is large and deep enough for big ships

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Negavigable lake

Question 7

found in high mountain; also describes mountain vegetation that helps decide climate.

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alpine

Question 8

A bowl-shaped depression, or hollow, in Earth surface

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Basin

Question 9

Tree with needles and cones, such as a pine tree

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Conifer

Question 10

Vegetation or vegetation zone of mainly grasses and scattered trees.

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Tropical grasslands

Question 11

Energy from the sun that can be converted into heat or electricity

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Solar energy

Question 12

Native of an area who has been conquerd or dominated by others who came later.

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Indigenous peoples

Question 13

A broadleaf evergreen forest found in wet and hot regions near the equator

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Tropical rainforests

Questions 13