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Earth unit

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Mountain range   a group a of adjacent mountains with the same general shape and structure  
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Mountain system   a group of adjacent mountain ranges  
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Mountain Belts   the two largest mountain systems in the world  
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anticline   a fold of rock layers that slope downward on boths sides of a common crest  
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compression   an area of longitudinal wave where particles of the medium are close together  
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fault   a break in Earth's crust  
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folding   bending layers of rock  
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monocline   a set of rock loyers that all slope downward from the horizontal in the same direction  
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plateau   a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons  
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shearing   to take off by friction of like materials  
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