BJU - Space and Earth Science - Chapter 4 (4th edition)
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| The central region of the interior of a celestial object. In the earth, it is the extremely dense metallic center surrounded by the rocklike mantle. | Core
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| The relatively solid outermost layer of the earth. | Crust
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| A concept underlying nearly all naturalistic historic science that refers to the unobservable distant past in terms of millions or billions of years ago. | Deep-time View
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| The study of the structures, materials, and processes of the solid part of the earth. | Geology
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| The rigid, rocky outer layer of the earth consisting of the crust and the outer mantle that act together as a unit. It averages 77 km thick under the oceans to nearly 300 km thick under the continents. | Lithosphere
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| The portion of the earth's interior between the crust and the core. | Mantle
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| The boundary between the earth's crust and mantle. It varies from about 7 km under oceans to about 50 km under continental mountain chains. | Mohorovicic Discontinuity (Moho)
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| The belief that earth-forming processes are natural, have always been the same, and have always happened at the same gradual rate. “The present is the key to the past.” | uniformitarianism
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| Any raw material from the natural invironment that we use or can use | Natural resource
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| A natural resource that has an unlimited supply or is easily replenished | Renewable resource
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| A natural resource that can’t be replenished and so is simply used up. Non-renewable resources can be conserved by recycling and by finding alternative materials. | Non-renewable resource
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| Efforts to oversee and wisely control the use of natural resources | Resource management
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