Earth Systems And Resources

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Minerals

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A type of rock made of one substance

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Ore

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Something that a valuable resource comes out of

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Fossil Feuls

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A type of nonrenewable source of energy

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Physical property

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Something that does not change the chemical makeup

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Chemical Property

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Something that makes a new substance

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Rock cycle

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The cycle of rock change and formation

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Sediments

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Weathered down rock that is smaller in size

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Sedimentary rock

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Rock that goes through weathering, erosion, deposition, and compaction

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Metamorphic Rock

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rock that goes through intense heat and pressure

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Extrusive ingenious rock

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Rock that cools immediately after reaching the surface

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Intrusive igneous rock

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Rock the cools slowly after it was exposed to the surface

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Mechanical weathering

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Weathering that breaks apart rocks without changing chemical composition

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Chemical weathering

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Weathering that alters or changes the chemical composition

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Erosion

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The act of taking or moving sediments away

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Deposition

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The act of pushing eroded sediments into new rocks

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Density

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Mass per unit volume

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continental crust

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Thinnest layer of earth

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Oceanic crust

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Thinnest layer of crust

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Lithosphere

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Upper mantle and crust

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Asthenosphere

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Bottom of the mantle

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Mantle

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Thickest layer of the earth

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Outer core

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Second most inner layer of the earth

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Inner core

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Inner most layer of the earth

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Tension

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Divergent plate boundary

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Compresion

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Convergent plate boundary

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Shearing

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Tension plate boundary

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Convection currents

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The rising and falling of magma in the mantle

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Theory of plate tectonics

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The theory that rock is moving in the mantle

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Subduction

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When one plate slides under another plate

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Hot spots

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A place in earth where magma rises just beneath the crust to create something

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Convergent plate boundary

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Where plates slide towards each other

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Divergent plate boundary

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Where plates slide away from each other

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Transform plate boundary

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Where plates grind past each other

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Mid ocean ridges

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Where volcanoes come up because of sea floor spreading

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Pangea

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The theory that all of the continents were once connected

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Island arcs

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a curved chain of volcanic islands located at a tectonic plate

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Faults

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A crack in the earth caused by splitting boundaries

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Trenches

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Deep underwater landform caused by subduction

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Folded mountains

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Mountains that are made by the folding of plate layers

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Pacific ring of fire

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A ring around N/SA and Africa

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Seismic activity

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What caused an earthquake

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Land forms

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Body of land caused by many things

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Sea floor spreading

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New sea floor being caused by divergent

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San Andreas fault

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One of the largest faults caused by transform boundaries

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Continental drift

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Theory that continents move a little every year

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