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Minerals |
a naturally occurring chemical compound that's the building of blocks |
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Ores |
a useful mineral that is a metal mineral or rock |
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Fossil Fuels |
remains of living things that are burned to produce energy |
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Physical Property |
things that are observed and measured without changing the substance |
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Chemical Property |
a substance that is observed and does have change |
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Rock Cycle |
a group of changes for rocks in all shapes and sizes |
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Sediments |
a piece of matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid |
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Sedimentary Rock |
forms of compaction/cementation of rock pieces called sediments |
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Metamorphic Rock |
when rocks are changed into different rocks by heat and pressure |
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Extrusive Igneous Rock |
when cooling takes place rapidly on the earths surface |
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Intrusive Igneous Rock |
when cooling is taking place slowly beneath the earths surface |
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Mechanical Weathering |
the breaking down of rock into smaller pieces |
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Chemical Weathering |
the decomposition of rock caused by chemical reactions, resulting in new compounds |
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Erosion |
the transportation of a rock from one area to another |
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Deposition |
this is the dumping of sediments into layers |
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Density |
mass per unit of volume in an object |
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Continental crust |
thick part of the earth's crust that forms large land masses. |
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Oceanic crust |
thin part of the earth's crust that underlines the ocean |
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Lithosphere |
it's the rigid outer part of the earth |
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Asthenosphere |
it's the upper layer of the earth's mantle |
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Mantle |
liquid layer between the crust and the outer core |
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Outer core |
a liquid layer that's above the core and below the mantle |
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Inner core |
the hard middle of all the layers of the earth |
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Tension |
applying force for something to stretch |
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Compression |
to push things together with a great force |
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Shearing |
when things grind past each other |
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Convection currents |
the transfer of heat by the mass movement
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Theory of Plate Tectonics |
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Subduction |
sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate
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Hot Spots |
area in the mantle from which heat rises from deep in the Earth.
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Convergent plate Boundary |
when 2 or more plate tectonics collide |
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Divergent plate Boundary |
when 2 plate tectonics move away from each other |
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Transform plate Boundary |
when 2 plate tectonics grind past each other |
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Mid-ocean Ridges |
underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics
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Pangaea |
the name of a supercontinent that existed long ago |
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Island Arcs |
curved chain of volcanic islands located at a tectonic plate
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Faults |
planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock
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Trenches |
a deep and long narrow ditch |
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Folded Mountains |
mountains that form mainly by the effects of folding on the top layer
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Pacific Ring of Fire |
an area of a great amount of volcanoes |
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Seismic Activity |
frequency and size of earthquakes that happen over a period of time
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Landforms |
a natural feature of the earth's surface
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Seafloor Spreading |
where new crust is formed and it moves away |
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San Andreas Fault |
an example of a transform plate boundary |
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Continental Drift |
a theory that all continents were connected but moved away |
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