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31 Cards in this Set
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oceans,lakes,rivers,and other bodies of water that make up a part of the Earth
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Hydrosphere
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land makes up a part of the Earth
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Lithosphere
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the air we breath is part of Earths
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Atomsphere
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the part of Earths that supports life
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Biosphere
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underwater extension of the coastal plain
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Cotintenal Shelf
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very center of teh earths planet is a super hot but solid inner
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Core
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next to the outer core is a thick layer of hot dense rock
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Mantle
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the outer layer
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Crust
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the theory that the contents were once joined but then slowly drifted apart
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Contiental Drift
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refersto all of the physcial process that creates many of the earths physicl features
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Plate Tectionics
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when plates sperad apart molten rock is pushed up from the mantle and ridges are formed
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Magma
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the heavier sea plate dives benaeth the lighter contineal plate
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Subductaion
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pieces of earths crust come together slowly as the sea plate side under the contineal plate
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Acceraction
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sea plates can also pull apart
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Spreading
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moving plates sometimes squeez the earth surface until it buckles it forms or bends in layer of rock
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Folds
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plates may grind or slide past each other creating rock cracks in Earth crust
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Fault
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when folded land can not be bent any further
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Faulting
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breakes rocks down
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Weathering
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wears away the earths surface by wind, glacires and moving water
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Erosion
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large bodies of ice that move across the Earths surface
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Glaciers
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when glaciers melt and recede in some places they leave behind large piles of rocks and debris
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Moraines
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name given to this regular movement of water
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Water Cycle
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the changing of liquid water into a gas
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Evaportaion
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turing ocean water into fresh water by removing all salt
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Desalination
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fresh water that lies benith earths surface,comes from rain and melted snow that filter water that seeps into the ground from lakes and rivers
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Ground Water
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an undergroundporus rock layer often saturated by very slow flows of water
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Aquifer
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3rd planet from the sun,93 million miles from the sun,5th in size
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Earth
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dwarf planet,terrestail planet-soild rocky crsust,gas giant planets-big and full os gas
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3 types of planets
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small irregular shaped planet like object
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asteriods
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icy dust particles and frozen gases
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comets
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pieces of spaces debris chunks of rocks and iron
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metorids
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