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1. According to the National Geographic Society, an escarpment is an area at the bottom of a cliff or steep slope where the elevation suddenly changes.
2. How many states in the US does the Niagara Escarpment pass through?
3. What are the only two ways that escarpments form on Earth?
4. Where does the Bruce Trail run on the Niagara Escarpment?
5. There are escarpments on every continent on earth.
6. Which canal allows ships to move over the Niagara Escarpment between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie?
7. What are "rupes"?
8. The Niagara Escarpment has the oldest forest ecosystem in eastern North America.
9. Escarpments may sometimes form in water. Which of the following escarpments is under water?
10. How many waterfalls that are at least 10 feet (3 metres) high and 3 feet (1 metre) wide exist along the Niagara Escarpment?
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