Earth Systems And Recources

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Minerals

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rocks fossils any thing that is a rock or can be made into a rock

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Ores

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Rocks that can be used for recources

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Fossil fuels

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Recources that take millions of years to make

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Physical property

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A property that cannot be changed

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Chemical property

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Properties makes the rock change by rust and burn

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Rock cycle

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3 rocks that become themselves and other rocks in the cycle

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Sediments

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crushed minerals that make sedimentary rocks

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Sedimentary rock

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You can make by weathering eroding and depositing

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Metamorphic rock

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A rock that an be made by heat and pressure

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Extrusive igneous rock

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A rock that can be made by heat and rapid cooling

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Instrusive igneous rock

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A rock that can be made by heat and slow cooling

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Mecahical weathering

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Weathering that mechanically changes a rock

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Physical weathering

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Weathering that physically changes a rock

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Erosion

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To carry sediments

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Deposition

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To dump sediments

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Density

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How hard or dense something is

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Contential crust

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Crust that we walk on in the earth

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Oceanic crust

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Crust under the ocean

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Lithosphere

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A layer under the crust before the mantle

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Asthenosphere

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Under the mantle before the outer core

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Mantle

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Liquid layer under the crust

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Outer core

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A layer that seperates the inner core and the mantle

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Inner core

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The center of the earth the most dense layer of earth

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Tension

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Pulling on both ends of something or pressure

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Compression

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An increase in pressure

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Shearing

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To cause a break off something

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Convection currents

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A current in liquid caused by convection

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Theary of plate techtonics

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The belief that the earths crust is split up into a bunch of plates

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Subduction

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The sideways or downward movement

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Hot spots

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Heat under the plates moving builds up and makes a volcano

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Convergent plate boundaries

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Is when two plates collide

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Divergent plate boundaries

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When two plates move away from each other

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Transform plate boundaries

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When 2 plates slide sideways past each other

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Mid ocean ridges

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An underwater mountain formed

By plates

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Pangaea

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It was a continent that sunk into the water

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Islands Arcs

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Island arcs are like mountains under the sea

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Faults

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Cracks in the earths crust

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Trenches

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Steep drop in the earths crust

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Folded Mountains

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When to plates converge and build a volcano

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Pacific ring of fire

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A giant plate with earthquakes and volcanos everywhere

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Seismic activity

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Activity in the earth that causes earthquakes

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Land forms

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Changes or features in the earth or on the earth

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Seafooor spreading

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Spreading across the sea floor

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San Andreas fault

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A fault in San Andreas

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Continental drift

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All the continents were once connected and torn apart

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