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C30 Chapter Review

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landform   physical features on the Earth's surface, such as a mountain or valley  
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weathering   the process of breaking rock into silt, sand, and other tiny pieces called sediment  
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erosion   ______is the process of moving sediment from one place to another  
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deposition   the process of dropping, or depositing, sediment in a new location  
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mass movement   the downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity  
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fault   a break in the Earth's crust, along which pieces of the crust move  
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mantle   the layer of rock beneath Earth's crust  
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core   the center of the Earth  
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plate   a rigid block of Earth's crust and upper mantle rock  
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magma   molten rock from the Earth's mantle  
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volcano   mountain formed by lava and ash.  
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earthquake   sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust  
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fault   a break in the Earth's crust, along which pieces of the crust move.  
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continental drift   the theory that the continents move over Earth's surface.  
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Pangea   the supercontinent that held all of Earth's land 225 million years ago.  
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fossils   remains or traces of past life found in Earth's crust.  
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arches, tables, dunes   formed when wind erodes rock and deposits sediments.  
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terminal moraines   water erodes rocks and deposits sediments to form this.  
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deltas, beaches, canyons, sinkholes, floodplains   ice erodes rock and deposits sediments to form these.  
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crust, mantle and core   Layers of the Earth, beginning with the outermost.  
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continental drift   formed Gondwana and Laurisa  
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Cenozoa   NOT an ancient continent.  
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