Earth Systems And Resources

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Minerals

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building blocks of rock.

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Ores

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Useful minerals

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Fossil fuels

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Remains of living things and burn to produce energy.

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Physical property

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Observe and measure without changing the substance.

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Chemical property

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Does change the substance.

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Rock cycle

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The process of rocks underground to produce different kinds of rocks.

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Sediments

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When rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.

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Sedimentary rock

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When sediments are weathered together.

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Metamorphic rock

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Rocks that are formed by heat and pressure.

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Extrusive igneous rock

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Rapid cooling and melting of rocks.

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Intrusive igneous rock

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When magma is melted and cooled slowly.

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Mechanical weathering

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Physical changes into sediments.

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Chemical weathering

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When rocks is broken down into sediments chemically.

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Erosion

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The dumping of sediments into layers

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Deposition

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This is where the sediments end up at the end of erosion.

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Density

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How tightly packed atoms are.

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Continental crust

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The thinnest layer and the top of the earth.

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Oceanic crust

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Part of the crust but is in the water.

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Lithosphere

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The crust and top of the mantle.

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Asthenosphere

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The layer under the lithosphere.

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Mantal

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The thickest layer of the earths layers.

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Outer core

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Second thickest layer made of liquid metal.

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Inner core

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Center of earth and solid metal.

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Tension

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When two things pull away from each other.

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Compression

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When two things push toward each other.

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Shearing

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When two thing grind past each other.

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Convection current

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Currents that result from fluid or gases being heated.

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Theory of plate tectonics

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theory that states that earths lithosphere is divided into plates.

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Subduction

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Process of one plate passing another.

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Hotspots

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A spot where many volcanos occurs.

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Convergent plate boundaries.

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A plate boundaries that in which compression happens..

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Divergent plate boundaries

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A plate boundaries in which tension happens.

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Transform plate boundaries

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A plate boundaries in which shearing happens.

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Mid-ocean ridges

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Underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics.

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Pangaea

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A super continent. When all the continents were connected.

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Island arc's

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A chain of islands.

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Faults

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A crack in the earths crust

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Trenches

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A deep underwater ditch

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Folded mountains

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Most common type of mountains found.

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Pacific ring of fire

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"ring" in the Pacific Ocean where most volcanos are found

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Seismic activity

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Types frequency and size of earthquakes.

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Land forms

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A natural feature on earths surface.

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Seafloor spreading

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The sea floor becoming larger because of tension.

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San Andreas fault

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A fault line located in San Andreas in California.

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Continental drift

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Movement across earths surface over time.

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