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Minerals |
Materials that are building blocks of rock |
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Ores |
Mined minerals that contain useful metals or nonmetals |
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Fossil Fuels |
Come from the remains of living things |
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Physical Property |
Can be observed or measured without changing substances |
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Chemical Property |
Change into new materials that have different properties |
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Rock Cycle |
Demonstration of rocks changing from one form to another |
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Sediments |
Particle of matter that can be formed into a rock |
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Sedimentary Rock |
Rocks formed from weathering, erosion, deposition and compaction and cementation |
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Metamorphic Rock |
Rocks made from heat and pressure |
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Extrusive Igneous Rock |
Rocks that cool and harden from magma fast above ground |
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Intrusive Igneous Rocks |
Rocks that cool and harden slow below ground |
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Mechanical Weathering |
Breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces |
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Chemical Weathering |
Breakdown of rock by chemical reaction information of new compounds |
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Erosion |
The carrying away or transporting of rocks and sediments |
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Deposition |
When sediments get placed down and usually clump into layers |
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Density |
The degree of compactness of a substance |
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Continental Crust |
The outermost layer made of solid rock |
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Oceanic Crust |
The water part of the crust |
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Lithosphere |
Bottom of crust |
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Athensophere
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Top of mantle |
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Mantle |
Middle layer and thickest layer |
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Outer Core |
Outside of inner core |
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Inner Core |
Inner layer, inside of outer core |
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Tension |
Divergent Forces (Pulling apart) |
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Compression |
Convergent (Pushing together) |
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Shearing |
Transforming (Pushing and pulling) |
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Convection Currents |
Movement of plates caused by heat that create/change landforms. |
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Theory of Plate Tectonics |
Earth's divided into several plates that glide over the mantle |
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Subduction |
Destroys old oceanic crust at subduction zones |
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Hot Spots |
A hole blasted through the center of the plate |
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Convergent Plate Boundaries |
Compression |
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Divergent Plate Boundary |
Tension |
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Transform Plate Boundary |
Shearing |
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Mid-Ocean Ridges |
Under water mountain systems created by diverging forces |
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Pangaea |
Supercontinent that contained all of the continentals combined |
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Island Arcs |
Chain of island arcs caused by oceanic-oceanic convergent forces |
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Faults |
Cracks in Earth caused by transforming forces |
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Trenches |
Ditch caused by subduction by converging forces |
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Folded Mountains |
Mountains caused by continental-continental converging forces |
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Pacific Ring of Fire |
Large basin where many volcanoes and earthquakes occur |
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Seismic Activity |
Frequency and size of earthquakes |
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Land-forms |
Natural feature of Earth's surfaces |
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Sea floor Spreading |
Creates new crust and mid-ocean ridges |
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San Andreas Fault |
Fault created by diverging forces in California |
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Continental Drift |
The gradual movement of Earth's continents over geologic time |
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