studying social studies chpt II
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- Climate
- The type of weather an area usually has overa long period of time.
- environment
- the surroundings in which people' plants, and animals live.
- precipitation
- Any form of water that falls to the earth.
- Temperature
- When we talk about hot or cold something is we call it temperature.
- Elevation
- Height of a place above sea level
- Growing Season
- The time of year when the wheather is warm enough to grow crops.
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- Protection of of natural resources
- Fertile
- Many parts of the state have fertile soil
- Natural resorces
- Found in in nature that is useful to people.
- Pollution
- The dirting of the air and water
- Mineral
- is something in nature thatis neither an animal nor a plant.
- nonrenewable
- Once taken from the earth they can not be replaced
- renewable
- Can be used more freely because can be replaced like water.
- barrier island
- Seperates the mainland from ocean
- Current
- A body of water that keeps flowing in the same path.
- erosion
- Washing and blowing away of an island is called erosion
- inlet
- flowing between the island or narrow spaces
- cape
- a point of of a land that streches into a large body of water
- dune
- A large pile of sand of sand heaped up by the wind
- Hurricane
- wind is over 75 miles and can damage things
- sound
- large bodies of water
- dam
- a wall built across a river to hold back flowing water
- rain shadow
- The side of a mountain on which little rain falls.
- describe three factors that can greatly affect the climate of an area
- ladditude, distance from ocean,and evation
- describe how the climate can affect the way we live in N.C.. Give three examples.
- winter cold we have to wear a coat, summer hot. short sleeves, rain umbrella
- describe the natural forces that have caused Cape Hatteras to become known as the graveyard of atlantic
- hurricanes (storms) shallow water