Loose+Ends

In this book there are many words, phrases and places that were mentioned. This page is going to help you with understanding these phrases, terms, and places.
=Definitions of words:=

=Landforms:= //**Here are a few facts about different landforms**//
 * Pothunting**: It is when someone illagally digs up old artifacts like dinosuar bones and Indian artifacts.
 * Buttes**: A hill that rises suddenly from the surrounding area and has sloping sides and a flat top. ................................This is a valley
 * Valley**: A valley is a v-shaped or U-shaped depresion in the earth caused by erosion. It slopes down to a stream lake or ocean. Some valleys are called canyons. They usually have fertile soil good for farming at the bottom of it.
 * Plateaus**: Are a large area which is elevated from its surroundings and its ends slope down. Plateaus are ether made by eroision or made by volcanoes.
 * Mountains:** Mountains happen from ether volcanic eruptions, erosion warring down part of the land, or when earths crust collides into each other, this is what usualy happens. ......................................[[image:hill_picture.jpg align="right"]].........This is a group of hills
 * Plains:** It is a large flat surface that usually slopes upward.
 * Hills:** Are small elevations of earth. They are either caused by a build up of volcanic ash, erosion, or a crack in earth's surface.
 * Loess:** They are small buildups of fertile soil that can be destroyed easliy.
 * Glaciers:** It s a huge mass of snow and ice over land that moves slowly over water. These glaciers hold 75% of the worlds water. I got these pictures at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landforms

[|click here]if you want to learn some interesting facts about landforms! This website is where I got this information for my landforms part

=Detention Centers:=

They are places that children and young adults go to when they commit a government crime [|click here]This is a good link that talks about a detention center

=The Story of Icarus:=

This story is about a kid named Icarus and his dad Daedalus who try to fly away from an island. Daedalus makes wax wings for them to fly away with. His invention works but Icarus gets to cocky flies to close to the sun his wings melt and he dies. This story is referred to in the book when Lon tells Rick this story and they both like it.