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Plate motion
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Term | Definition |
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Analyze | to examine in detail for a purpose |
continent | any of the earths main continuos areas of land |
convergent | moving toward the same place |
cross section | a diagram that shows the inside of something looks like |
divergent | Moving apart in different directions |
earthquake | a sudden shaking of the Earth's surface |
eruption | the sudden pushing out of something such as lava from a volcano |
fossil | evidence of life from the past. such as fossilized bones |
geyser | a natural spring that sends out hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground. |
landform | a feature that forms on the surface of a planet |
lava | hot liquid rock on the surface of earth |
magma | hot liquid rock under the surface of the earth |
mantle | the layer of soft ,solid rock underneath earth's plates |
Mesosaurus | an a extinct reptile that lived 300 million years ago |
Mid-ocean ridge | a underwater mountian range formed when tow plates move apart |