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10 Cards in this Set
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Crust
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The top layer of earth made of a thin layer of cool rock
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Mantle
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Earth’s thickest layer between the outer core and crust made of magma
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Outer Core
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Liquid layer of metal that surrounds the inner core
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Inner Core
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A ball of hot solid metal at the center of the earth
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Asthenosphere
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The layer in Earth’s upper mantle directly under the lithosphere in which rock is soft and weak because it is close to melting
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Lithosphere
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The layer of earth made of the crust and the rigid rock of the upper mantle which is broken into tectonic plates
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Tectonic Plates
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The process in which the motion of a hot material under the crust changes the crust of the Earth. There are called plate tectonics.
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Convection
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A process by which energy is transferred to cause warmer less dense air or liquid to rise while the dense cooler air or liquid is pushed down.
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Composition
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What an object is made of
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Density
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How many particles are packed into a specific space or area (Mass/Volume)
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