Defining: Geography Terms

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Defining Geography Terms

• Chinook a dry, warm wind that blows down the
  eastern slope of a mountain
• Contiguous connected to
• Continental Divide imaginary line through the
  Rocky Mountains that separates rivers that flow
  east (to the Atlantic Ocean) from those that flow
  west (to the Pacific Ocean)
• Cordillera a region of parallel mountain systems
  
• Irrigation the process by which water is
  supplied to dry land
• Timberline line of elevation above which trees
  do not grow because the air is colder