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29 Cards in this Set
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body of water that makes up the earth
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hydrosphere
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part of land that makes up the earth
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lithosphere
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part of earth that supports life
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biosphere
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an under water extension of the coastal plains
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continetal shelf
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place that holds some of the air we breath
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atmosphere
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a supper hot solid inner
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core
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next to the outer is a thick layer of hot dense rock
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mantle
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outer layer of earth
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crust
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earth onced joined and slowely drifted apart
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continital drift
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all the processes to complete earths phisical phictures
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plate technical
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hot rock inside a volcano
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magma
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the havier sea plates divides beneath the lighter conial plates
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subduction
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pieaces of earth crust come togeather easily
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accretion
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when sea plates pull apart
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spreading
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mouning plates that squice the earth surface till it buckles
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fold
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plates that grind togeather
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fault
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when land is bent to the max
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faulting
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break downrocks,physical wheathering breaks down of particals
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wheathering
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laege body of ice
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glaciera
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some things that glaciers leave behind
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moraines
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a jigantic supper conital
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pangea
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where around by wind
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erotion
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more salt water weres away
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water erotion
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name given to the regular movement of water
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water cycle
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when water gets sucked up by the clouds
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evaperation
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rain,snow,sleet
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precipitaion
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taken the salt out of salt water
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desalintion
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fresh water that lies beneath earths surface
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ground water
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very slow flow of water
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aquifier
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