Earth Systems And Resources

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Minerals

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Materials that are building blocks of rock

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Ores

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Mined minerals that contain useful metals or nonmetals

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Fossil Fuels

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Come from the remains of living things

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Physical Property

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Can be observed or measured without changing substances

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Chemical Property

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Change into new materials that have different properties

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Rock Cycle

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Demonstration of rocks changing from one form to another

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Sediments

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Particle of matter that can be formed into a rock

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Sedimentary Rock

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Rocks formed from weathering, erosion, deposition and compaction and cementation

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Metamorphic Rock

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Rocks made from heat and pressure

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Extrusive Igneous Rock

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Rocks that cool and harden from magma fast above ground

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Intrusive Igneous Rocks

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Rocks that cool and harden slow below ground

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Mechanical Weathering

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Breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces

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Chemical Weathering

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Breakdown of rock by chemical reaction information of new compounds

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Erosion

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The carrying away or transporting of rocks and sediments

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Deposition

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When sediments get placed down and usually clump into layers

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Density

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The degree of compactness of a substance

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Continental Crust

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The outermost layer made of solid rock

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Oceanic Crust

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The water part of the crust

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Lithosphere

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Bottom of crust

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Athensophere

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Top of mantle

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Mantle

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Middle layer and thickest layer

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Outer Core

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Outside of inner core

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Inner Core

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Inner layer, inside of outer core

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Tension

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Divergent Forces

(Pulling apart)

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Compression

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Convergent

(Pushing together)

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Shearing

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Transforming

(Pushing and pulling)

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Convection Currents

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Movement of plates caused by heat that create/change landforms.

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Theory of Plate Tectonics

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Earth's divided into several plates that glide over the mantle

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Subduction

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Destroys old oceanic crust at subduction zones

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Hot Spots

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A hole blasted through the center of the plate

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Convergent Plate Boundaries

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Compression

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Divergent Plate Boundary

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Tension

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Transform Plate Boundary

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Shearing

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Mid-Ocean Ridges

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Under water mountain systems created by diverging forces

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Pangaea

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Supercontinent that contained all of the continentals combined

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Island Arcs

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Chain of island arcs caused by oceanic-oceanic convergent forces

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Faults

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Cracks in Earth caused by transforming forces

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Trenches

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Ditch caused by subduction by converging forces

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Folded Mountains

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Mountains caused by continental-continental converging forces

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Pacific Ring of Fire

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Large basin where many volcanoes and earthquakes occur

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Seismic Activity

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Frequency and size of earthquakes

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Land-forms

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Natural feature of Earth's surfaces

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Sea floor Spreading

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Creates new crust and mid-ocean ridges

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San Andreas Fault

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Fault created by diverging forces in California

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Continental Drift

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The gradual movement of Earth's continents over geologic time

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