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6
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A cone bearing tree able to survive long cold winters with long thin needles rather than leaves.
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7
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A ridge like mass of rock, gravel, sand and clay carried and deposited by a glacier.
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8
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A type of natural vegetation that is adapted to mediterrian climates, small evergreen trees and low bushes or scrub.
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10
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A type of tree that sheds its leaves during one season.
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11
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All the forms of water that fall to earth from the atmosphere including rain and snow.
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13
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The interaction of plant life, animal life and the physical environment in which they live.
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14
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One complete orbit of the Earth around the sun, the Earth completes on revolution every year.
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16
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Either of the two times each year when day and night are nearly equal length everywhere on Earth
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17
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A meat eating animal.
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18
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A layer of soil just below the Earth’s surface that stays permanently frozen.
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The spinning motion of the Earth, like a top on its axis as it travels through space.
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2
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Either of the two times a year when the sun appears directly overhead at the tropics of cancer and Capricorn.
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3
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A temperate grassland characterized by a great variety of grasses.
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4
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The term used for the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time.
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5
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A region in which temperatures are always cool or cold where only specialized plants can grow.
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6
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The type of climate found in the great central areas of the continents found in the northern hemisphere characterized by cold snowy winters and warm hot summers.
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9
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A plant eating animal.
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12
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The condition of the bottom layer of the earth’s atmosphere in one place over a short period of time.
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15
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The term used to describe a major type of ecosystem that can be found in various regions throughout the world
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19
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The boundary between two masses of air that vary in temperature and density.
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20
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A tropical grassland with scattered trees located in warm lands near the equator.
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