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Plate Motion
Amplify Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| earthquake | a sudden shaking of the earth's surface |
| mantle | the layer of soft solid rock underneath the Earth's plates |
| outer layer | Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water |
| pattern | something we observe to be similar over and over again |
| plate | one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer |
| plate boundary | the place where two plates meet |