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davidbearthscience
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Earth Science | study of earth and space, including rocks, fossils, climate, land use, ocean water, and space |
| Earthquake | movement of the ground that occurs when rocks inside Earth pass their elastic limit, break suddenly, and experience elastic rebound. |
| Fossils | remains, imprints, or traces of prehistoric organisms that can tell when and were organisms once lived. |
| Latitude | distance in degrees north or south of the equator. |
| Lithosphere | rigid layer of earth about 100km thick, made of the crust and a part of the upper mantle. |
| Longitude | distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian. |
| Magnitude | a measure of energy released by an earthquake. |
| Mantle | thin layer of tissue that covers a molusk's body and that can secrete a shell. |
| Matter | anything that has mass and takes up space and is made up of different kind of atoms; includes all things that can be seen, tasted, smelled, or touched but does not include heat, or sound. |
| Pangaea | large, ancient landmass that was composed of all continents joined together. |
| PLate | a large section of Earth's oceanic or continental crust and rigis upper mantle that moves around on the athenosphere |
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