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16 Cards in this Set
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Bodies of water that make up the earth.
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Hydrosphere
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Land that makes up earth.
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Lithosphere
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The air we breath is part of earht's ....
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Atmosphere
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All people, plants,and animls that live on earth is earths.....
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Biosphere
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An underwater extension of the coastal plain.
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Continental Plain
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A super-hot but soild inner of a planet
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Core
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Thick layer of hot, dense rock
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Mantle
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The outter layer is the.....
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Crust
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The theroy that the contenients were once close together but slowly drifted apart
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Continental Drift
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All the processes that create earths physical features
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Plate Tectonics
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Molten Rock
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Magma
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Heavier sea plates dive beneath the lighter continental
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Subduction
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Earth's crust come together slowly as the sea plates slide under the continental plate
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Accretion
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Sea plates pull apart in a process known as .....
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Spreading
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Moving plates sometimes squeeze the Earth's surface until it buckles....
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Folds
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Cracks in Earth crust...
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Faults
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