Social Studies U.S. and Canada chapter One
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- huge slow moving sheets of ice
- glacier
- a stream that flows into a larger river
- tribuary
- the boundary that separates rivers flowing towards opposite sides of the continent
- continental divide
- area on the dry , sheltered side of a mountain that receives little rainfall
- rain shadow
- area between 23 1/2*N and 23 1/2*S lines of latitude
- tropics
- cold, dry region covered with snow for more than 1/2 of the year
- tundra
- permenantly frozen soil
- permafrost
- regions of flat,rolling land covered with grasses
- prarie
- a politcal division much like a state in the U.S.
- province
- fertile topsoil
- alluvial
- large companies that run huge farms
- agribusiness
- power genarated by moving water
- hydoelectricty