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Vocabulary Words

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hydrosphere Earth's water, whether found on continents or in oceans, including the freshwater in ice, lakes, rivers, and underground.
plate tectonics A scientific theory that Earth's crust is made of moving plates.
erosion The process of carrying away soil or pieces of rocks.
deposition The process of dropping off pieces of eroded rock.
epicenter The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
mantle A nearly melted layer of hot rock below Earth's crust.
island chain A formation of islands aligned above a volcanic hot spot.
topographic map A map that shows the elevation of an area of Earth's surface using contour lines.
fault-block mountains When Earth's crust breaks along a fault, and one side of the fault moves up and the other side moves down.
folded mountains Mountains formed when a continental plate is compressed or squeezed, the ground is forced upward.
crater A cup-shaped depression (hole).
primary waves The fastes moving waves in an earthquake. They pass through both solid and liquid layers of Earth.
secondary waves Waves from an earthquake that only move through Earth's solid layers. These waves move up and down.
chemical weathering The process through which chemicals break down rocks and other materials.
continents One of several very large landmasses on Earth.
tsunami A huge wave caused by an earthquake under the ocean.
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