Earth Systems And Resources

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Minerals

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Building blocks of rocks

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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 burned to produce energy.

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Physical property

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Observed and measured without changing the substance

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Chemical property

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Does change the subject

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Rock cycle

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Process rocks go through to become what they are

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Sediments

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Made up from pieces of other rocks

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Sedimentary rock

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Rock made from weathering, erosion, deposition, compaction, cementation, sediments

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Metamorphic rock

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Rock created from heat and pressure.

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Extrusive igneous rock

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Made from cooling and melting (cools rapidly)

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Intrusive igneous rock

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Made from Cooling and melting (slow cooling)

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Physical weathering

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Rocks breaking apart but not changing their chemical composition.

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Chemical weathering

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Changing the rocks chemical composition.

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Erosion

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Movement of rocks

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Deposition

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Dumping of sediments into layers.

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Density

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The compactness of a substance

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Continental crust

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Lest dense and smallest of all the earths layers.

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Oceanic crust

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Below continental crust and denser than continental crust

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Lithosphere

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Plates of solid rocks divided into several plates.

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Asthenosphere

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Hot malleable semiliquid

"Plastic"

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Mantle

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Made from iron, oxygen, silicone, magnesium, and aluminum.

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Outer core

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Made from iron, nickel, sulphur, and oxygen (liquid)

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Inner core

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end of earths layer, is made of iron and nickel.

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Tension

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Being stretched tight.

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Compression

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The reduction in volume

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Shearing

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parallel to the slope or plane in which it lies.

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Convection currents

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current in a fluid that results from convection.

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Theory of plate tectonics

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Earth's crust is in large sections and are in motion.

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Subduction

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Two tectonic plates move towards another, slides underneath the other

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Hot spot

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Volcanic Islands formed plate boundaries to a rising mantle plume

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Convergent plat boundary

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Two lithosphere plates collide crmountains, earthquakes and/or volcanoes.

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Divergent plate boundary

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two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

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Transform plate boundary

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Lithospheric plates moving across one another causing only earthquakes.

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Mid ocean ridges

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Created by divergent plate boundaries creating new crust.

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Pangaea

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super-continent where the continents were believed to be connected.

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Island arcs

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Created by converging oceanic, oceanic crusts

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Faults

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Cracks in Earth's crust caused by tension, compression, and shearing.

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Trenches

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canyon in the ocean by subduction at convergent plate boundaries

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Folded mountains

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two continental plates collidepush rock and fold them upward

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Pacific ring of fire

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in the Pacific Ocean where volcanoes and earthquakes are common.

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Seismic activity

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Energy released by earthquakes

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Land-forms

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Types of terrain found on Earth's surface.

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Sea floor spreading

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new crust formed and slowly moves away from the ridge.

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San Andreas fault

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An example of a transform plate boundary in California

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Continental drift

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Theory that Earth's continents were joined and moved over time

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