Earth Science Vocabulary (p158-197)

____________ is a region of reduced rainfall on the side of high mountains that is sheltered from the wind.

• Rain Shadow

• Glacier

• Renewable Resources

• Nonrenewable Resources

A huge, slow moving mass of ice is a ___________.

• Rain Shadow

• Glacier

• Renewable Resources

• Nonrenewable Resources

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___________ is a resource that is always being replaced and will not run out.

• Rain Shadow

• Glacier

• Renewable Resources

• Nonrenewable Resources

____________is a resource that cannot be replaced quickly enough to keep from running out.

• Rain Shadow

• Glacier

• Renewable Resource

• Nonrenewable Resource

____________is the science or the activities of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock.

• Agriculture

• Vegetation

• Deforestation

• Runoff

The plant life or all the plants that cover a particular area are called _______________.

• Agriculture

• Vegetation

• Deforestation

• Runoff

_________________ is the cutting down or burning of all the trees in an area.

• Agriculture

• Vegetation

• Deforestation

• Runoff

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________________ are the materials, such as nutrients, picked up and carried by flowing rainwater.

• Agriculture

• Vegetation

• Deforestation

• Runoff

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____________ is a thick haze caused by the action of sunlight on air polluted by smoke or automobile exhaust fumes.

• Smog

• Space Junk

• Conservation

• Recycle

Material made by humans that has been left in orbit around Earth is called ______________________.

• Smog

• Space Junk

• Conservation

• Recycle