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Plate motion
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Analyze | to examine in detail for a purpose |
| continent | any of the earths main continuos areas of land |
| convergent | moving toward the same place |
| cross section | a diagram that shows the inside of something looks like |
| divergent | Moving apart in different directions |
| earthquake | a sudden shaking of the Earth's surface |
| eruption | the sudden pushing out of something such as lava from a volcano |
| fossil | evidence of life from the past. such as fossilized bones |
| geyser | a natural spring that sends out hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground. |
| landform | a feature that forms on the surface of a planet |
| lava | hot liquid rock on the surface of earth |
| magma | hot liquid rock under the surface of the earth |
| mantle | the layer of soft ,solid rock underneath earth's plates |
| Mesosaurus | an a extinct reptile that lived 300 million years ago |
| Mid-ocean ridge | a underwater mountian range formed when tow plates move apart |