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lithosphere (crust)   Outer layer of the Earth, made of rock  
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mantle   layer of rock beneath Earth's crust  
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core   center layer of Earth  
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Plate   rigid blocks of crust and upper mantle rock  
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magma   hot, soft rock from Earth's mantle  
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volcano   mountain formed by lava and ash  
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earthquake   shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of energy in Earth's crust  
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fault   places where pieces of the crust move  
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pangea   225 million years ago, all of the land on Earth was joined together in one "supercontinent"  
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continental drift   theory of how Earth's continents move over its surface  
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erosion   process of moving sediment from one place to another  
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deposition   process of dropping, or depositing, sediment in a new location  
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sediment   soil, sand, and other tiny pieces, or particles  
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glacier   thick sheets of ice, formed in areas where more snow falls during the winter than melts during the summer  
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weathering   process of breaking rock into sediment  
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seismograph   instrument that measures seismic waves  
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