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  1. erosion
    the process of wearing or grinding something down
  2. decline
    grow worse
  3. migration
    the movement of persons from one locality to another
  4. sediment
    matter that has been deposited by some natural process
  5. volcano
    a fissure in the earth's crust through which gases erupt
  6. urban
    relating to a city or densely populated area
  7. rural
    living in or characteristic of farming or country life
  8. nation
    a politically organized body of people under a government
  9. state
    the way something is with respect to its main attributes
  10. birth rate
    the number of babies born during a specific period within a population
  11. natality
    the number of babies born during a specific period within a population
  12. altitude
    elevation above sea level or above the earth's surface
  13. cartography
    the making of maps and charts
  14. hemisphere
    half of a round, three-dimensional shape
  15. latitude
    an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator
  16. longitude
    the angular distance from the prime meridian at Greenwich
  17. meridian
    an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth
  18. elevation
    distance of something above a reference point
  19. tropics
    the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate
  20. estuary
    the wide part of a river where it nears the sea
Created on Mon Apr 08 07:13:42 EDT 2013

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