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20 Cards in this Set
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Habitat
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natural enviroment where organism lives
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Pacific Ocean
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deepest, largest ocean
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Atlantic Ocean
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ocean larger than Indian Ocean
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Indian Ocean
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both Indian & Atlantic similiar in depth
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Artic Ocean
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smallest & shallowest ocean
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World Ocean
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concept that indicates that all oceans on earth are interconnected
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Southern Ocean
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body of water that surrounds Antartica
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Big Bang Theory
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explosion from which the eath and solar system originated
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Density
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the mass of a given volume of a substance
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Core
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innermost layer of earth
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Mantle
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semi-liquid region between the crust and the core
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Crust
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outmost layer of earth
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Basalt
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dark-colored rock that forms the oceanic crust (seafloor)
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Granite
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light-colored rock that forms most of the continental crust
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Continental Drift
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movement of continental masses on the surface of the earth
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Pangea
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the supercontinent that broke up to form todays continents
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Plate Tectonics
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process involved in the movement of large plates on the earths crust
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Mid-Ocean Ridge System
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continuous chain of volcanic submarine mountains that extends around the earth including Mid-Atlantic Ridge East Pacific Rise
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Transform Faults
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large horizontal displacement in the Mid-Ocean Ridge
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Mid-Altanic Ridge
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ridge running down the center of the Atlantic Ocean, closely following the curves of the opposing coastlines
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