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- chinook
- warm wind that melts snow at the the base of the Rocky Mts.
- typhoons
- pacific hurricanes
- mesa
- flat-topped natural elevation
- hurricane
- ocean storms in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico hundreds of miles wide with winds of 74mph
- blizzard
- snowstorms with winds in excess of 35mph, temps. below freezing, and visibility of less than 500ft
- continental divide
- a line that separates the rivers that flow toward opposite ends of a continent
- tornadoe
- swirling columns of air whose winds can reaach 300mph
- plateaus
- vast, high-level surfaces
- timberline
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the elevation above which trees cannot grow
- headwaters
- water sources of rivers
- tributary
- or brooks, rivers and streams that feed their waters into one river
- fishery
- places for catching fish and other water animals