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| isthmus | a narrow piece of land that connects two large land masses and seperates two bodies of water |
| archipelago | a group o closely scattered islands |
| continental shelf | the underwater extention of a continent |
| watercycle | the regular movement of water from ocean to air to ground to ocean |
| evaporation | the changing of liquid to water to water vapor, a gas |
| natural resource | elements from the earth that are not made by people, but can be used |
| renewable resource | resources that can never be replaced which contain minerals and fossil fuels |
| nonrenewable resource | resources that can replace themselves naturally or if people can grow or raise |
| weather | the condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time |
| climate | the term for weather patterns that an area typically experiences furing a long period of time |
| axis | an imaginary line that runs thorugh its center between the north and south pole |
| equinox | on about March 2, the north the sun is directly over the equator and the days and nights are equal in length |
| solstice | on june 21, the norhtenmost point on the earth 23 and a half degress north or the tropic of cancer receives the direct rays of the sun |
