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Chp 9

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Middle layer of Earth   Mantle  
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Thickest Layer of Earth   Mantle  
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Top part of the mantle and the crust above it.   Lithosphere  
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Center and hottest layer of Earth   Core  
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Topmost, very thin layer of Earth   Crust  
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Process of placing sediment in a new location   Deposition  
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Process of moving sediment from one place to another   Erosion  
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Process in which soil, sand, and sediment are formed   Weathering  
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Rigid block of crust and upper-mantle rock   Plate  
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Opening in the crust through which lava flows   Volcano  
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Places where pieces of the crust move   Fault  
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Hot, soft rock from the lower mantle   Magma  
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Shaking of ground from energy release in the crust   Earthquake  
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Remains or traces of past life found in the crust   Fossils  
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Fast Changes to Earth's Surface   Volcano, Earthquake, and Tsunami  
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Slow Changes to Earth's Surface   waves, weather, shifts in land, weathering, erosion, and deposition  
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a natural non living , solid material that has particles in a repeating pattern   mineral  
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made up of one or more minerals   rock  
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forms when rock pieces are depostied and squeezed and stuck together   sedimentary rock  
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the repeating processes that change rocks from one type to another over time   rock cycle  
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rock changed by heat and pressure   metamorphic rock  
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magma cools and hardens to form this type of rock   igneous rock  
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the color of the powder left behind when you rub a mineral on a white porcelain plate   streak  
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a mineral property that describes the way light reflects from the mineral's surface   luster  
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a mineral's ability to resist being scratched is its   hardness  
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the layer of the soil that contains many minerals   Topsoil  
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Processes that together form dunes, valleys and deltas   Erosion and Deposition  
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What does the location of different fossils in different layers of a rock tell the scientist.   The Relative Age of a fossil  
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scale for measuring hardness of minerals   Mohs' Hardness Scale  
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